The Indian Superhero Cult!!

Everyone loves a hero.While we are on the look out for presidents to save our country, moviebiz found two new superheroes. one is fantasy, the other is phantasmagoric. Sivaji and Spider-Man.Rajnikant and Tobey maguire have gone where no men have gone before. Their antics have slayed the box office. So what keep ur brains at home. Two strangely attired men, one from South of the Vindhyas, the other from across the seven seas save the world. One says that with absolute power comes absolute responsibility. The other says, "To hell with being responsible,I'm going to bust the gust of baddies." Essentailly, both Spider-Man and Sivaji are trying to work their own belief systems in a world gone terribly wrong. One wears a mask and spins a web. The other changes 56 costumes, romances a girl 30 years his junior and packs a mean punch.
Both are travesties of the conventional hero. one's a weakling, the other's dark-skinned. Both considered anathemas as far as traditional film-making goes. But both Sivaji and Spider-Man 3 hit the right buttons. Because, at the end of the day, they are just trying to mske sense out of all the nonsense around them. Spider-Man faces high-tech villians, saves kids, Sivaji goes through orgiastic prances with the girls, sticks chewing gum on his forehead and tosses a coin like only he can. Call it burleque, absurd or corny. It works and that's the bottomline.
So when it rains it pours. As far as trade guessmates go, Spidey has netted record crores and Sivagi raked in the three-figure-mark in the first 14 days of their release. Not bad for ordinary men who became extraordinary through their cinematic deeds. And at the end of the day, both Sivaji and Spider-Man are bang on the buck. You feel empowered when you come out of the multiplex. Suspend belief. Like the Adidas ad,"impossible is nothing!"
Truly, we can achieve the impossible. Deewaar is now part of the latest NCERT textbook for class VII. Forget the furore, the point is it was used as an example to teach children the value of dignity. Remember the famous dialogue from Deewaar, "Main phenke hue paise nahin uthata?"
ABji disarms us all with his disarming candour(some call it mock modesty). Forget the naysayers, its just learning the importance of commom courtesies we middle class people share, especially calling back on missed calls!! and replies back to msgs.!!
Thats that then. Get wet, soak in the rain, turn the pages of a crisp newspaper on a rainy morning...whatever you do, have fun and try to save the world while you are at it....plant trees this monsoon. Succinctly put,enjoy!!