I decided to take in a Bollywood movie, since I hadn't seen one of these in awhile, and went to see 'Agent Vinod'. This is that movie where Saif Ali Khan plays the titular RAW agent who is out to stop a nuclear bomb from being detonated in New Delhi.
Apparently, it's been banned by Pakistan because they feel the movie is anti-Pakistan. Well, I don't know how they drew that conclusion, since the storyline basically puts a Brahmin-led business cabale behind this nuclear bomb plot, with the goal of instigating hatred against Muslims. Fortunately, Agent Vinod manages to save the world from Brahmin perfidy, with the help of a lovely Pakistani ISI agent played by Kareena Kapoor. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that our politically-slanted Bollywood would promote this kind of storyline, but apparently the paranoid Pakistanis see anything from India as poisonous. Well, this time they're right, but for the wrong reasons.
Agent Vinod is produced by 'Illuminati Films' - what an ironically appropriate name for them. My question is - does Bollywood produce anything for the rest of us anymore?
2 comments:
Before this, there was Veer Zaraa - wherein the hero - another Khan, playing Indian airforce pilot - spends his life in Paki prison for the love of a Paki woman. With likes of Javeds and Shabanas and Mahesh Bhatts and other pseudos populating it, what else do you expect from Bollywood?
I have not watched and don't watch any Bollywood stuff either, but can say from limited experience, only pretentious nonsense from comes out of it from some massively messed up pseudo secs. If no one gave Bollywood their time of the day, it would only serve them right.
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