Woe kaun thi

Two events that have had a catastrophic influence on our collective Bollywood experience:

1. I know people loved Hera Pheri (I didn't to the same extent having seen the same plot in 2 other languages before, so kindly excuse), but if only that movie had not done well at all, we wouldn't as a society be subject to attempt after attempt by Priyan to assembly-line-remake all his Malayalam movies and the human equivalent Zyclon-B team of Akshay Kumar-Paresh Rawal-Sunie[0-n]l Shetty-/ would not have shown up as frequently as cyclones this year.

2. (this is even more dismal) I don't have any objections to Mallika S pursuing her own line of fashion, but did she have to do it in a film starring Emraan #mi? If only she'd picked another film and made that a success, we wouldn't have been seeing the eh? boy in every 2nd trailer these days (I counted today). This seems to be the final push from agnosticism to atheism, a secular sign if you wish. OTOH, my eyesight has improved from not watching much TV. Beethoven : Alex (post-treatment) :: #mi : moi. Would I be happier with Ashmit Patel in every other film? Yuss! Scream bloody murder.

And I'm not trying to be funny.