And you say you are not a self hater?

I agree that there is still a lot of cultural differences, and a lot of jokes and mannerisms go right past most Indian viewers.

Anyone seen Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World ?

As for Bollywood being crap, the crap that does come out of Bollywood is just that if you use benchmarks we use here. But then Bollywood exemplifies catering to the market, people’s approach to movies in India is different from here. There it is more of a release than anything else, the average literacy is low and thus the market tastes are different. Judging the worth of Bollywood by Hollywood standards is not a good idea. Plus while the Indie scene there is not as great, in recent years as the market has diversified the non mainstream stuff is getting more mainstream and also better.

Every consumer product follows the same model in a global market. Why not entertainment? There is nothing like competition to raise the bar.

P.S. I was watching the Richard Gere interview on Koffee with Karan (okay, I admit it) and I was quite surprised to here Richard Gere say repeatedly that he would love to act in a Bollywood movie.

Movies themselves are ok, but the song and dance scenes are ridiculous.. The people are dressed weird and they have no good coreography.. It is embarrassing for me to even watch the dance scenes..

W.T.F.