Real and reel: How Telugu cinema celebrates stalking

[cobra commando]

Here's a scene most of you won't have difficulty relating to. A conventionally pretty girl is walking to a bus stop near her college, and a guy, obviously in cool denims and black shades, is watching her intently. Just when she's about to go out of sight, he decides to follow her, in a manner no different from what we call stalking. The girl is obviously irritated, but never yells out for help. Soon the scene shifts to inside the bus: the 'stalker' is now the knight in shimmering armour, and is the only man who is around to shield the girl from other shady passengers, all of whom are doing exactly what he did a minute ago! But, as you know, she is a girl and, therefore, bound to like the 'macho' guy protecting her.
Change the scene again. The two are out of the bus now, but the guy continues to follow the damsel in distress and even reaches her home. He is unfazed even when he's face-to-face with the girl's brother, usually a dreaded local gangster. Surprise, surprise, the brother-who's-also- the-gangster is so large-hearted that he approves the 'stalking' boy and gives him permission to hover around the girl whenever he wants to. Did you just say this is so filmy? Perhaps it is because these are snippets from a hugely successful Telugu movie. In fact almost all the Telugu movies with big star cast have a similar storyline. Ram Charan is building a career out of such roles. Ravi Teja, Pawan Kalyan, Allu Arjun, Prabhas and a long list of others are repeating the same scenes in their films with different degrees of voyeurism and perversion.


Read more:
Real and reel: How Telugu cinema celebrates stalking - Hindustan Times

 

[ninja85]

bullsh*t bollywood and whole indian movies are f***ing stupid,idiots.

 

[Ashutosh Lokhande]

even bollywood film promotes stalking and chedoing of girls.

 

[pmaitra]

This is not limited to Telugu movies. This happens in movies in almost all languages.

BTW, where is the class of Amol Palekar? We are becoming classless these days:

Janeman Janeman Tere Do Nayan.... - YouTube

 

[cobra commando]

^Saar, aajkal Amol Palekar banenge toh puri life kunwara (read virgin) he rehna padega, onlee !

 

[ashdoc]

most indian films are made for low class low life people who live in slums and shanties . what else do you expect ??

 

[Srinivas_K]

All the movies are like that, even if we watch Hollywood movies which are not block busters. They are also like that.


Blame it on the audience as well who encourage these kind of scenes.

Here's a scene most of you won't have difficulty relating to. A conventionally pretty girl is walking to a bus stop near her college, and a guy, obviously in cool denims and black shades, is watching her intently. Just when she's about to go out of sight, he decides to follow her, in a manner no different from what we call stalking. The girl is obviously irritated, but never yells out for help. Soon the scene shifts to inside the bus: the 'stalker' is now the knight in shimmering armour, and is the only man who is around to shield the girl from other shady passengers, all of whom are doing exactly what he did a minute ago! But, as you know, she is a girl and, therefore, bound to like the 'macho' guy protecting her.
Change the scene again. The two are out of the bus now, but the guy continues to follow the damsel in distress and even reaches her home. He is unfazed even when he's face-to-face with the girl's brother, usually a dreaded local gangster. Surprise, surprise, the brother-who's-also- the-gangster is so large-hearted that he approves the 'stalking' boy and gives him permission to hover around the girl whenever he wants to. Did you just say this is so filmy? Perhaps it is because these are snippets from a hugely successful Telugu movie. In fact almost all the Telugu movies with big star cast have a similar storyline. Ram Charan is building a career out of such roles. Ravi Teja, Pawan Kalyan, Allu Arjun, Prabhas and a long list of others are repeating the same scenes in their films with different degrees of voyeurism and perversion.


Read more:
Real and reel: How Telugu cinema celebrates stalking - Hindustan Times

 

[cobra commando]

India's booming stalk market - The Times of India laundia patayenge miss-call se ! :crusin2: