Originally posted by: MaxMayfield
...DDLJ is a movie I can watch a 100 times and still laugh and have a beaming smile everytime I watch it.
But India is a much more complex country, beyond my and your understanding. Like sev puri said, there are a lot of vote banks and factions..particularly in tier 2 and tier 3 cities..think of EU as one country and what would happen then..? India is a much more complex brown version of EU with every state having its own culture, tradition, customs and so on and so forth, add to that more than 10 religions being practiced. I get that you dont like the current ruling party..you dont have to either..but to constantly undermine Indian citizens and their intelligence by saying that hey everything is manipulated and everyone is either brainwashed or the democracy doesnt exist..is frankly very offensive. Like I said before, you are likely to follow a Dhruv Rathee....
but for you it is about one actor...
Reducing your post to the points I want to respond...
@ bold: I know people who say the same about DDLJ.... I'm not among them although I love the movie watching it also in a Mumbai Cinema just to enjoy the company of the audience.
As for India, it's a clear "no"...it's not about one actor for me. Nevertheless, SRK is - apart of my family and close friends - the most important person in my life (for reasons that have nothing to do with fandom).
@ bold: All this I not only know intellectually, I feel it and I have a great respect for it...You have no idea about my love for India...otherwise I would not stress the damage Modi & Co are doing (still valuing the positive they do even in the negative as e.g. giving Kashmir a position that will be beneficiary to the state).
@ bold: I wonder from where you got the impression about my writing to use the words "constantly" and "everything" and "everyone"...and I never stated something about the intelligence of Indian citizens and that democracy doesn't exist. To me, that looks like an image you did build of me that hasn't much to do with the person I am.
@ bold: I already wrote, that Dhruv Rathee is of no importance to me...I just watched one of his videos to know about him and that was it (he lives in Germany, but he could live wherever and that would not change anything to me). I don't follow anybody, not even SRK...I go to read or watch people either regularly or randomly or by chance. I also am critical towards some so-called liberal persons that often are named here... I guess you would have a hard time to put me in a box 😉(it would have to be one without limits but with a lot of human values 😊)
Edited by Clochette - 1 years ago
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