Comments on: Are Bollywood comedies really *that* funny? http://www.bollywoodbloggers.com/2006/11/24/are-bollywood-comedies-really-that-funny/ Bollywood blogged - international Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:48:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: iPod Downloads http://www.bollywoodbloggers.com/2006/11/24/are-bollywood-comedies-really-that-funny/#comment-7206 Wed, 02 May 2007 12:43:45 +0000 http://www.bollywoodbloggers.com/2006/11/24/are-bollywood-comedies-really-that-funny/#comment-7206 <strong>Sushmita Sen...</strong> If you are looking for legal iPod downloads, do check out the site.... Sushmita Sen…

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]]> by: PolkaStripes-ZebraDots http://www.bollywoodbloggers.com/2006/11/24/are-bollywood-comedies-really-that-funny/#comment-5303 Wed, 21 Feb 2007 19:45:59 +0000 http://www.bollywoodbloggers.com/2006/11/24/are-bollywood-comedies-really-that-funny/#comment-5303 Hey Sheetal, nice work! Hey Sheetal, nice work!

]]> by: michael http://www.bollywoodbloggers.com/2006/11/24/are-bollywood-comedies-really-that-funny/#comment-207 Fri, 01 Dec 2006 05:39:58 +0000 http://www.bollywoodbloggers.com/2006/11/24/are-bollywood-comedies-really-that-funny/#comment-207 hm, indian comedy could often not be understood by foreigners like me. but if you, sheetal, write about not understanding indian comedy... is comedy in indian movies some reflecting indian life or not? and why don't westerners like this harmless fun? hm, indian comedy could often not be understood by foreigners like me. but if you, sheetal, write about not understanding indian comedy…
is comedy in indian movies some reflecting indian life or not? and why don’t westerners like this harmless fun?

]]> by: Daddy's Girl http://www.bollywoodbloggers.com/2006/11/24/are-bollywood-comedies-really-that-funny/#comment-193 Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:38:42 +0000 http://www.bollywoodbloggers.com/2006/11/24/are-bollywood-comedies-really-that-funny/#comment-193 Very interesting post, Sheetal. Very very thought-provoking. I have never seen a Govinda movie (he's just never crossed my path), but Johnny Lever I find both very amusing and annoying. I like that broad, slapstick kind of humour though... it serves its purpose. I really liked 'Baadshah' for example... but I digress. This whole it's-so-side-splittingly-funny-when-a-man-tries-to-run-around-on-his-wife thing is interesting. I haven't seen KANK (in which I hear both a man and a woman are unfaithful) but it's not a comedy and doesn't really fall into this category, right? I haven't seen any of the movies you mentioned, but I have heard that there is a trend for making comedies about extramarital 'fun and games' in Bollywood at the moment. Interesting, because I recall that 'sex comedies' of this type (if I've got the right idea) were big in Hollywood in the 50s - with the Doris Day/Ruck Hudson movies and others starring people like Bob Hope. There was a particular Bob Hope one that was all about how he was trying to set up a rendezvous with his mistress in a motel room and it kept getting interrupted - sooo sooo funny (yeah right). I think the wise consensus was eventually that those movies degraded women, so there was a move away from them. What I'd like to know is, are there any of these new comedies in which it's the wives who are being tempted by sexy Hrithik-types and running around on their husbands? Cos I betcha people would find that real FUNNY!! 'Astitva' which was the polar opposite of funny and treated infidelity as a serious issue, is still getting a load of flak because it was the woman's cheating that was in issue. In defence of these movies though (a hypothetical defence I hasten to add), is there an extent to which the content of these movies is reflected in society? I mean, is this stuff really happening in a way it wasn't before (or wasn't acknowledged to be happening before) in Indian society? Would love to hear thoughts on this... Oops... sorry I went on a bit... Very interesting post, Sheetal. Very very thought-provoking.
I have never seen a Govinda movie (he’s just never crossed my path), but Johnny Lever I find both very amusing and annoying. I like that broad, slapstick kind of humour though… it serves its purpose. I really liked ‘Baadshah’ for example… but I digress.
This whole it’s-so-side-splittingly-funny-when-a-man-tries-to-run-around-on-his-wife thing is interesting. I haven’t seen KANK (in which I hear both a man and a woman are unfaithful) but it’s not a comedy and doesn’t really fall into this category, right?
I haven’t seen any of the movies you mentioned, but I have heard that there is a trend for making comedies about extramarital ‘fun and games’ in Bollywood at the moment.
Interesting, because I recall that ’sex comedies’ of this type (if I’ve got the right idea) were big in Hollywood in the 50s - with the Doris Day/Ruck Hudson movies and others starring people like Bob Hope. There was a particular Bob Hope one that was all about how he was trying to set up a rendezvous with his mistress in a motel room and it kept getting interrupted - sooo sooo funny (yeah right). I think the wise consensus was eventually that those movies degraded women, so there was a move away from them.
What I’d like to know is, are there any of these new comedies in which it’s the wives who are being tempted by sexy Hrithik-types and running around on their husbands? Cos I betcha people would find that real FUNNY!! ‘Astitva’ which was the polar opposite of funny and treated infidelity as a serious issue, is still getting a load of flak because it was the woman’s cheating that was in issue.
In defence of these movies though (a hypothetical defence I hasten to add), is there an extent to which the content of these movies is reflected in society? I mean, is this stuff really happening in a way it wasn’t before (or wasn’t acknowledged to be happening before) in Indian society? Would love to hear thoughts on this…
Oops… sorry I went on a bit…

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