February 06, 2005

The three phases

There are three phases to any role that’s played in a bollywood movie; the rules are made especially stringent if it’s an Akshay Kumar starrer. Here are a few samples.

a. The mother
#1 The caring mother (until her Police officer husband is shot by the villains)
#2 The hardworking widow (after his death)
#3 Photo on the wall.


b. The beautiful sister

#1 The playful chirpy girl.
#2 Falls in love with a bad guy.
#3 Raped and killed (usually the lengthiest scene in the movie).


c. The Heroine

#1 A Social worker/college student.
#2 Falls in love with the hero (charachterised by songs at unwanted times).
#3 Marries the hero (in case of availability of another heroine, refer b.#3)


...and the formula continues to create sensational hits.

6 comments:

Vivek said...

you could expand this to include guys too, then you will get the complete formula for any bollywood movie.

something like this for guys

guy type 1: hero
guy type 2: villian
guy type 3: policeman
guy type 4 comedian/hero's friend

vikraman said...

Lets formalise the Grammar...

Guy_Type1 : does not look at girls.Kills Guy_Type2 after a big fight.

Guy_Type2 : Interested only in girls among other things like drug trafficking.Tries to kill Guy_Type1.

Guy type 3: Runs behind Guy_Type2,successful if Guy_Type3=Guy_Type1 else gets shot by Guy_Type2.

Guy_Type4: crops up once in a while.No connection with any of the above three guys.

Srikar said...

And obvoiusly vikraman you forgot the WHILE- loop. this formula never fails ....

vikraman said...

ya..i did
While(1)

call bolly_formula();

wend

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vikraman said...

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