Sorry “Other”wood

A kid was born and grew up in a small village called Mechidangi. the Eastern region of the country Nepal. The nearest marketplace and our weekly go-to grocery market used to be Naxalbari, India. The only channel I knew in my childhood was Doordarshan of India. Access to the movies was Sunday evenings when the Doordarshan used to telecast old Hindi movies. Ok, why did I say old? I am talking about the late ’80s era and Doordarshan used to telecast movies from the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s movies on the channel used to feel like Friday releases like nowadays.

I grew up watching these old Hindi movies. In the ’90s time changed. Now, the Friday and Saturday night from 9 PM the same channel started telecasting Hindi movies. Now, the frequency of watching Hindi movies has increased from 1/week to 2/week. During this time Nepal also increased the coverage area of NTV. But, no luck in our area. Had to settle with only Doordarshan and the same frequency. The only Nepali movie I watched till the late ’90s was ANYAY(Injustice) at another’s house where I went as a guest there and surprisingly NTV was available and maybe on Saturday (I am not sure) it used to telecast Nepali movies. I don’t think I liked the movie other than it is in the Nepali language. The fascinating factor of watching Nepali movies on TV was, the people were communicating in our native language, which did not need translation to understand. Time and Location, the first factor:

The other factor is Dad. Hardcore Hindi movie buff, the first person who was my personal IMDB for Bollywood movies, and the first reviewer of Hindi movies I met. Dad used to tell me which movies to watch, which I can skip and which I must watch if Doordarshan is telecasting. The trivia, blood relations, is the movie a hit/flop? and a spoiler sometimes. If I think about the situation now, the movies which Doordarshan telecasted, there were very rare movies when he told me that he hadn’t watched the movie. Just imagine this, access to movies at his time was only in Theaters. No, VHS(if you don’t know this, you are too young) or CDs or DVDs. isn’t that amazing? 

BTW he was born and grew up in India.

One of my colleagues asked me, why do you love Bollywood songs and movies so much?
That time I replied I am only paying some respect for the salt I eat which comes from India. You know “NOON KO SOJO” 😀

Till half of my teenage, there were only Hindi movies. If I have to give you statistics there were only 2 Nepali movies I watched till I was 16. Rest you can do math.

Ok, now to answer his question, from childhood to teenage if you are fed with the same shit, I think you are bound to think that the shit is the only world. It will be very difficult to connect with the different worlds when you are already connected with one world.

Bottomline: I love Bollywood more than any <other>wood.