A beaming smile shot across my face: Bollywood finally recognizes our lot and casts us in the role of a hero. No doubt, it only thinks us worthy of hookers—but then Rani, our femme fatale is no ordinary hooker—she is a high class one. Given that that we are in the same company as Spitzer, that can’t be such a bad thing …..!!
The best is yet to come….
Our hero asks Rani what she thought of patents. Pat comes the reply: it is a tool used by the West to exploit India and other poor nations!!
Bravo—our media has indeed done its job well. With patents hitting front pages with increasing regularity and being painted in a satanic light, is this all that surprising??
Hats off to bollywood though–Not only does it capture what patents mean in the popular media, but also successfully establishes a causal nexus between prostitution and patents (something I have always suspected)…..
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Dear Shamnad,
the reference to Abhishek being a patent attorney was the only + thing about this boring movie… [my comment to my wife, a few months back]. Well to be honest, the movie was so boring, i compeltely missed Abhishek’s explanation of ‘patents’ or his being in a Seminar in Berne.
Well there is another Hindi movie which mentions patents – TARZAN [the new one with Ayesha TAkia].
Here, Ajay Devgan takes a patent for his revolutionary car.
Besides these 2, I don’t know of other hindi [or English] movies that refer to patents.
GenericIPguy
Hey Sandeep,
It was indeed an awful movie (which is why I wrote that Rani was the only reason I suffered the movie).
Thanks for the reference to Tarzan–will try and watch this soon. patent for a car-was this post the Nano?
Great post Shamnad!!!! The other day I was watching a telugu serial with my grandmom and the serial actually made a reference to a patent as a part of a family business dispute!!! What do you know? there may actually be hope for our lot in the movie industry!! hahahahah!
Shamnad,
This was long before the Nano days…
I faintly recollect that even mr. Devgan is killed and the other partners try to get the patent in their names or some thing…
GenericIPguy.
I second Prashant: awesome post, Shamnad!
Sandeep, your comment got me thinking, and I put my highly-refined googling skills to use, and came across this 1981 French (!) film called Diva which uses the threat of mass-manufacturing bootleg recordings as one of the turning points in the story – I thought that was funny. 😀
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diva_(film)
No lawyers, though! I wait for the day when there is a role reversal in a bollywood film: the woman is the lawyer, maybe with a gigolo as escort… :p
Thanks for the comments, Sandeep, Prashant and Sumathi,
Sumathi: couldn’t agree with you more. anxiously await the day when bollywood is evolved enough to carry a role reversal story with gigolo et al
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