![]() The gambling which precedes the run- up to the main day, and the millions of rupees of firecrackers going up in flames on D- day, can only seem spiritual to a stubborn romantic.īollywood too has never shied away from reality. Money rather than religion has always been at the heart of this society.įestivals like Diwali have celebrated the power of money like few festivals in the west. Seen in this way, it is no surprise that our popular cinema too tries to avoid reality, for a spiritual people will watch, what else, but cinema that avoids the real world. The stereotypes have something in common in so far as spirituality is seen as a turning away from the world, a form of escapism. ![]() ![]() Among the stereotypes of India that have come to us from the west is that we are a spiritual country, and that Hindi cinema is essentially escapist. ![]()
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