Originality

Talking about originality, howz this ? If you try to read the word in Kannada (a south Indian language i speak) it would sound like this ... Ori (nothing in Kannada but lets say it means one)-gin(alcohol)- nali (inside)- ty (tea... drink). Yeah, originality is like a gin soaked tea, most of the times its bad like the pj i made above, different and always has a refreshing kick. After recent desi debacle (kavya vishwanathan) in field of writing, though i don't blame her, she was the fall guy in her publishing company's easy route. Anyways considering what bollywood does, i would say kavya got a raw deal, i guess stakes are much higher in writing world.

Before I go bollywood bashing, there are 2 kinds of critiques, one who criticizes cos he/she loves that something and other who criticizes to feel superior, i am the former one.

So back to bollywood and originality, i was wondering what originality would do for our film industry. First we must understand that there are only few topics in each aspect of life and almost everything is covered, so we will always feel that a story is repeat/similar to something already out there. However what bollywood does is pick a movie/story from west, add some unnecessary villains & twists, sprinkle some monotonous comics and finish off with an unexpected but predictable happy ending.

I decided to pick the current favorite bollywood topic which is infidelity esp the girl being the bad one and thought of some novel stories (with lots of killing ofcourse) to go with it in the usual film genres. Some of them might already exist if not i claim the rights !

Original : Wife cheats on husband, husband hires a killer, killer falls in love with wife, wife kills the killer. variations after this include wife going to jail with husband smirking at his success and wife getting back to husband to live happily ever after.

My concoctions

Thriller : Wife cheats on husband, husband hires a killer, husband realizes his folly, killer refuses to step back (psycho), husband tries to save wife from the killer, after some violet and daring misses from both sides, husband finally kills the killer.

Comedy : Wife cheats on husband, husband hires a killer,wife responds in kind, killers fall in love and try to unite the estranged couple.

Action : Wife cheats on husband, husband hires a killer, wife escapes, after an all India car chase, wife kills the husband and gets killed by killer.

Drama : Wife cheats on husband, husband hires a killer, wife gets disabled not killed, goes thru the grind to get better and becomes famous, gets killed by her former husband.

Suspense : Wife cheats on husband, husband hires a killer, killer falls for the wife, gets killed, suspense (who killed the killer)ends when u realize wife is a lesb whose partner is a bi who is jealous of killer guy falling in love with wife. The threesome that wouldn't happen ...

Science Fiction : Wife cheats on husband, husband buys a look-alike android, wife realizes folly gets back to the husband but husband won't give up android and cheats on wife. Finally husband and wife are back together, Android malfunctions kills them both.

horror : Wife cheats on husband, husband hires a killer, wife is unhurt, killer dies. husband realizes she is unnatural, guy who wife cheated with turns out to be ghost's boyfriend, husband kills him and sets the 2 ghosts free and finally husband and wife are back together.