An IBanker is one of those stereotyped jobs in Indian cinema today. Atleast in the kind of cinema you and I see, he (yes he) has been portrayed on more than one ocassions. Popular Hindi cinema has traditionally almost always shown the riches to be hotshot businessmen. Inheritance has been the rule of the game. Hero, if he was not very poor, never needed to worry about profession as his Dad had built an empire to be inherited by him. Even the profession of poor guy hardly mattered as most of the emotions that Indian Cinema relates to, come outside the boundary of work life. Only in recent time, that the hero has actually become a photographer, a painter, an IBanker and likes.
It's a welcome change. However we are still coping with stereotyping phenomena. Chetan Bhagat and host of other budding 'writers' did it for IIT/IIM graduates. Our directors continued from where these 'writers' have left. Be it Kartik Calling Kartik, Rock On or I Hate Love Storys - there is a hotshot banker/professional at work. Some of them are shown as dork, others still evolving as a person. I just hope they come closer to reality. That's all. This change should be for good.
ps: It's a totally unstructured and incomplete collection of thoughts on this topic of Stereotyping. Hope to write it again some day.
Jul 14, 2010
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Well, Fugly from I hate love story.Nice..I do completely agree with your thoughts here. It is just we all have felt this sometime but you happened to put it up. :P. I am looking forward to it's continuation..
Yes I agree. When Sameer Dattani said Investment Banker.. London se, a lot of us here in India were like : Kyun bey? India se Investment Banker hone mein kya tha :P
Yes I agree. When Sameer Dattani said Investment Banker.. London se in I hate Luv Stories, a lot of us here in India were like : Kyun bey? India se Investment Banker hone mein kya tha :P
I know, itne bhi bure nahi hote india ke investment bankers :)
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