Being an Indian, I can totally
bet that you can just never get enough of drama. You may hate it yet you can’t
escape it. I think that we are wired in a way that from time to time, we do
need to refill our drama quotient. Of course it takes different amount of time
for different persons for the drama quotient to get empty. Someone’s drama
quotient may last for one month while someone else’s may last just a week.
Don’t get me wrong here. I am not
saying that Indians do not appreciate good cinema. On the contrary, drama is
probably the least appreciated genre of cinematic content in this country. This
has been around for so long that it is now being taken for granted. With the
advent of international media and exposure to other genres, the significance of
drama has further subdued. Yet, I firmly believe that it will never be extinct.
I know of someone who really
enjoys Game of Thrones. He is a huge fan of Batman. He has watched every episode
of Supernatural. He watches every super hero movie. He is a fan to an extent
that he even speaks the dialogues in usual conversation. Yet when the movie
Bajrangi Bhaijaan came out, his status read something like – Hum toh aapki
dabangiyat ke deewane the yeh toh aap Bajrangi Bhaijaan banke aur bhi zyada fan
kar gaye – loosely translated to that we were fan of your Dabangg image and you
made us a fan with Bajrangi Bhaijaan.
Then I don’t know a single girl
who hasn’t seen one of the drama shows. All mothers and the previous
generations have seen Balaji production shows. Even the girls – I don’t think
there is any who has not seen any. Countless shows like Geet, Miley Jab Hum
Tum, Dil Mil Gaye and many more started as being of a different genre but they
contained tons of drama and got even bigger viewership. Well you may argue that
these shows didn’t contain the saas-bahu drama but hey, drama is drama in any
form or relationship.
There is also a quick test for
this – see any show or movie which is currently showing a romantic or wedding
sequence. Even though such scene seldom not contain drama correlated, if you
get a girl to watch it for a couple of seconds, she is most likely to sit
through the entire run. And not just girls, I know a lot of guys will respond
in the same manner to this test.
I realized this when suddenly I
had this urge to see a Karan Johar movie one day. I have all marvel movies in
my cellphone along with FRIENDS series. I was already seeing some more things
and then just out of the blue, I wanted to see a typical Bollywood movie. The
first movie that came to my mind was Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham. It is a great
movie. The songs are pretty awesome. However, you can’t deny that there are
some real basic issues with the movie. AB being so rigid. AB was a billionaire
and his wife needed permission to do everything. Rahul never realized that
Naina loved him. Well these are the ones pointed from the first couple of
minutes of the movie. Also drama is not my favourite genre. I love comedies and
there are a lot of them that I keep seeing endlessly. Yet, I know the dialogues
of this movie. And that day I had this intense urge to see it – just to refill
my quota.
I am not saying it is a good or a
bad thing. I am just saying that we all are brought up amongst all this. Family
stories and family values are something that are quite natural to all of us. We
may not love that but we can’t deny it being a part of us.
Probably that is why I take some
moments off my sleep and do things like writing this blog and then tell it in
the office tomorrow for the reason for my sleep deprived state – for – thoda drama
toh banta hai boss!
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