- Cricket is a huge obsession in India.
- Movies are an equal craze in this country.
- India has played 646 ODI matches in 23 years. That would make around 30 ODIs per year.
- Indian cinema makes about 1200 movies a year, Bollywood alone accounting for 200.
- Cricketers and cricket establishment make tons of money, with zero professionalism.
- Movie stars and producers earn billions making pseudo-emotional NRI Indianism garbage.
- Half of the major brand ambassadors are cricketers.
- The rest are film stars.
- Our cricket is rarely world-class.
- Our movies in general are nothing to write home about.
- For all you time conscious people, a person watching all the India ODIs in one year spends 30*7=210 hours on cricket.
- An average man in India watches at least one movie a week (either in cinema halls or television), which comes to 52*3=156 hours a year.
- India had won the 1983 World Cup. There were a few other achievements like reaching finals of 2003 World Cup, beating Australia in a test series in Australia. Apart from that, our performance has been consistently inconsistent.
- Indian movies have been nominated only 3 times in best films category in the history of Oscars, not once winning. I will be surprised if the statistics differs at other international awards.
- One out of every three persons I talk to wants cricket to be banned in India, as if banning cricket for 10 years would make India the world beaters by 2017.
- I am yet to meet a person who wants movies to be banned in India.
Why the difference? :)
Comments
Movies on the other hand..are used my most Indians to escape from their lives.They dont want existentialism.
Bad movie-you can forget about it(unless ofcourse its as bad as Fanaa)...Cricket hurts your pride.see?
liked this post. very well written.
know what? next world cup ICC can save a lot of money by having just the opening ceremony, photo session and then presenting the WC to Australia. say what?
happy blogging
regards
bellur
ps: you have been blogrolled.
And I am one person who wants movie-making also to be banned in India. The movies churned out are of such bad quality that they are an insult to one's intelligence.
All the movie-makers should be made to take a break, and should be given at least basic lessons in Literature, Sociology and a couple of other subjects. (And poojaris should take a break and learn basic Sanskrit...) However, I guess that is too much to expect of them.