Author: Chidanad Rajghatta
Publication: The Times of India
Date: September 2, 2006
Unnamed British-Pakistani groups that depend
heavily on clips and posters from Hindi films to produce their videos allege
a conspiracy to allow Hindu culture through the backdoor, as "Bollywood
movies are officially banned in Pakistan but are freely available on pirated
videos and DVDs", they say.
Reports from Pakistan speak of the movie Fanaa
being a big hit in the country's underground circuit. Songs from Fanaa and
other new Bollywood blockbusters are played openly in taxis and private transport.
The Pakistani elite and the ruling class lead
the ranks of Bollywood aficionados, a fact that seems to rankle the British
Pakistani youth who are in the limelight for their extremist views and fondness
for madrassas.
"They kill Kashmiris but you still watch
Mission Kashmir," they admonish Pakistanis m one passage. Another rap
passage wonders: "Bollywood Bollywood what's the future hold/ As film
by film you get ever so bold/ Stories of lesbianism enter the fold/ Now you
have to heat it up as it starts going cold/Topless movies or is it incest
next/ All the time it is sex sex sex."
