Read Sandeep’s take on the recent Hindi Cinema, what it lacks and the apparent overshooting in addressing the Real Indian, in Bollywood: Miles away from Bharat

While the movies in the earlier year’s depicted common man and his problems like dacoits in villages or role of money lenders. Gradually these dacoits were replaced by Smuggler. Today’s villains are Underworld gangsters and terrorists. This is more of an urban phenomenon and urban issues. Unfortunately, no bollywood mainstream movie has depicted the problem of farmer suicides.

While movies on Kashmir are regarded as glamorous, there are hardly any movies on the North-East. There is absolutely no wonder that these region are troubled and yet to be fully integrated with the India mainstream (in real sense).

Read the whole story at Sandeep’s Blog, Looking Beyond the Obvious.