No, the general trend in India is to abandon everything Indian and to adopt the Western way of doing things. The more educated they get, the more self-centered, more greedy, more superficial they get. In other words, more Western. This music and movie industry is just a reflection of that. Not the other way around.
They went from producing subtle, romantic, maybe idealistic, songs to something totally different.
Greedy, self-centered, superficial == western?
Fuck you.
I pretty much agreed with you up until you made that comment. You definitely hooked me in comparing a crappy recent song that lord-knows-who-sang to a Rafi/Lata duet, but now I see you are blaming the outside influence rather than the people who are to be blamed.
Indians are jerks? Damn. Must be western influence...
Hey - how's this: Indians/Pakistanis/Bangladeshis are typically assholes. They fight over anything and everything, think they are the greatest race/ethnicity in existence, on average are very racial and do not embrace most of what makes America great. They come to America only for the jobs and opportunities, yet bitch about everything while they're here. As far as I can tell, they only come to America for money...so they are whores in my eyes.
My parents emmigrated from India. I was born and raised in the US. The neighborhood we live in is almost entirely Indian populated now...and not one person on this block has a sense of community. I can not look out my window and ever claim to see anything remotely resembling altruism. It saddens me, and I'm ashamed.
In order to become a naturalized US Citizen, you need to renounce all allegiance to any foreign nations. Most of the Indians that come over and become naturalized are baldy lying to the United States government and would obviously never fight on the US's side should a war every break out between India and America.
But all stereotypes and racial profiling in my post aside - I suppose you attribute this to *WESTERN* influence?
Fuck that. It's the REAL western influence that will turn things around and birth some OPEN-MINDED Indians for a change. We'll have the Aziz Ansaris and Russell Peters' of the world making jokes about how ass-backwards most Indian mentalities are, subtly teaching the next generation brown kids that their parents way of thinking is archaic and wrong. I love it, and I can't wait to the see the overall impact.
And Bollywood used to pump out art, now it's just money grabbing. What else is new. Phew.
/rant.