Babetude laments India's cultural degeneration):

First, let me make this clear. Here Babetude is talking about B'wood( though I don't like the copied name either)because for many who are interested in Indian from abroad, and even Indians, think it reflects Indian culture.







Today out of the blue a childhood memory hit Babetude! And she decided to listen to this beautiful song which she has a memory of from the 90s.The composition might be from the 50s but yours truely had the good fortune of viewing it only in the early -mid nineties, on TV.


What a beautiful song it is...What a haunting melody, it can stay with a music lover( more so Indian music lovers) for a long time.

The youtube vidoes which most of us net users look at now-a-days have some very sensible comments. Babetude has talked about it in the past.

About this well liked tune, a user calls it relaxing apart from being beautiful and brilliant.

This composition is capable of leaving the emotional listener a little sad too. Of course that would be stand true for who understands music and better still, the poetic lyrics.


Well,Babetude has talked about the legendary Kishore Kumar in the past. The lady in the video- the legendary Indian beauty Madhu Bala makes it very alluring as well. No two ways about that!

The sad part is that in those times there were natural beauties who were Godesses of acting too. Madhu Bala, Meena Kumari, Nutan and Nargis were some examples.



In fact, of late there's been too much of sad news all around.The loss of the great ghazal maestro with the golden voice, Jagjeet Singh recently has also left the art world and true blue appreciators very sad as well...It won't be too much to say that true blue appreciators of music and classic cinema lovers are being left orphaned with the exit of so many veterans.


Visionary Steve Jobs who passed on recently too has very wisely quoted-" Old has to go to make way for the new". But what does one do when the new is deteriorating things instead of improving or even preserving. Technological and economic advancement in India is there, but most wise men think it's losing touch with it's culture.



And what do audiences have in India right now? Is there music of this kind and sensuality of this kind left in India any more? It's really very sad and it's just another post where Babetude laments again...Guess she will have to until things change. '

Babtude's repeating again- there are a few good movies but their number is low. The non sense outnumbers the sensible. And there's no sensuality...Like how the fan said, probably it died in the 60s with she going away in Feb 1969. Well guess in the 70s it was there abit but it's hardly there any more. It's more about blatant sexuality these days. Well it's been noticed that the process of deterioration had started around two decades back and now it's kind of reaching its pinnacle.

An elderly lady close to me, who's not even from India, says she's sad when sometimes she sees an entire movie and doesn't see the heroine in a saree. Her husband who's a very knowledgeable elderly man who left India in 1960, agreed he won't be able to recognize India of today. I might also return to India after a while now, when I am in my thirties, but even from far, this is a painful sight.

It's all bout business, marketing and money making. All that is important but at the expense of what?Can someone tell the dream merchants and the sellers of dreams that if an intelligent viewer wishes to enjoy westernized stuff, he/she can very well turn to what western culture offers- Hollywood, even Broadway, ballet and so on.After all, the original is the best. Yes, beaing westernized is good but has improved only a few things in the movies... Futuristic films will be appreciated but not as much as Hollywood futuristic films and science fiction which have much better technology.If a lot of things had improved at the expense of losing cultural identity, it was okay. But it's not so. Most films are still laughable and mindless song and dance sequences in foreign locations don't help.

While actors looking fit is very important these days and it's there, that doesn't mean one can over look the most important thing - performance itself.

Maybe the problem is that the amount of intelligent viewers ain't that much! As long as the mindset of the majority doesn't change, nothing is going to change...

Wonder till how long one(the folks that care) will have to tolerate she male hybrids, expressionless non actors who CAN'T deliver their own dialogues, nonsensical films, most times copied from Hollywood, and mediocre loud (on many occasions copied as well)music reflecting Indian culture! Will this stop? Time to stop it but who will?