Bollywood going Ban Ban (warning: this may reach the censor-bored)
Taking a cue from the article on bike stunts being banned in Bollywood from ibnlive.com, here are a few snippets on what else could land up at the doorsteps of censor board.The article talks about the State Transport Minister having written a letter to the censor board asking them to ban such stunts as its a bad influence on the youth. If not the youth, believe he sure has been under the influence.
A few more movie scenes that he might want to consider banning
* The gun - though it might inspire many more into becoming Olympic shooters. The flipside that looks more likely, is the gateway becoming a gangster.
* Dances - Well, this may sound a little strange but here's my reason. Isn't it dangerous to start dancing on a pole while raining and in the middle of Mumbai roads, least one gets electrocuted.
* Fight sequences - While we could go on adding sub-clauses for each act, I'd like to stay with the essence of the whole fight. Though I definitely wouldn't dare even challenging two at a time (well even the one needs to pass a fitness test. not scared but I believe its easier to believe in Ahimsaism :0)), let's spare a thought for our superstars Mithunda or Rajinikanth.
Having given enough to the censor board to think about, lets come to the language usage.
Besides movies, I'd also like to talk about Television shows.
While its quite obvious that movie flicks such as 'The goodfellas' and the recent Scorsese triller 'The departed' influences even the most gentle of men, including yours truly, even our very own Indian shows on TV do have in them, the stuff.
In reality Television shows such as the 'Roadies' in MTV and 'BigBoss' being shown on Sony we sure have access to the choicest of vocabs.
Here you are exposed to the beep so many times that even the most intelligent of species take time in figuring out the many words used. This I say is dangerous, let me cite an example.
There was this 12th grader who decided to take a break from his preps by listening to some 'light' music on TV. Light music - haha; 'no' but lighter than what he actually saw.
Hearing an intense argument between contestants, there were so many beeps in the conversation that the ear drums soon got ambulatory. You know what I mean, its the stage after numbness. He was dumb-struck that it took sometime and effort for him to figure out the words and their contextual meaning.
What books and Television don't tell you, you can definitely trust you friend to tell you. I heard this on a dialogue from the 'Departed'.
"What the f***? You *otherf*****, **cksu****; What the f*** did you say you **cksu****? What the f*** did you fu***** say? Your Mother’s c***. Your mother’s c***;”
My apologies to the eminent ladies and gentlemen who are actually reading this post (firstly, a big Thank You). My bet is that you didn't expect the climax.

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