Mid-night Pidhu and Hero Hiralal

Since Thursday nites infuse much of weekend enthusiasm, its pretty difficult to discard mutations of couch potatoe and sleep early, as its just matter of day’s work (Friday). So I was, with my roomie, who still live upto their hostel days, late night tv and games; actually they got flexible time and they go office when its mid-day. As usual there was nothing worthwhile, but we were waiting for one filler “Pidhu da gre8”, it’s a spoof character and cyrus’ voice matches charaches (Punjabi with dikra accent). Though not as creative as ‘Simpu’ of channel v, but it surprises u sometimes and specially when you are bored and there nothing on tv at midnight. Alas, this time it was rerun, since my roomie had already seen quite a few episodes he realised it, anyways after a song it was over.

When flipped channels, caught one channel playing this movie ‘Hero Hiralal’. Its one late 80s flicks of bollywood where lover is ready to give up his life for love and such flicks are rarely made these days. I watched it mid night and I tell you the reasons why you should watch this movie:

It has those old hindi movie concepts of ‘Ameer ka pyaar aur Garib ka pyaar’( rich man’s love and poor man’s love). You don’t seen such kind of flicks as no one makes it these days, only NRI flicks for a billion junta who haven’t been outside.

Garib ka pyaar prevails and wins over the capitalists. Yeah, these days this doesn’t happen as everyone is realistic.

Extreme side of love- deadly sacrifices and suicide !!! Which hero does that these days? They only make effort for extra marital affairs or one night stand.

Movie has one of my favorite dialogue “Phata poster nikla HERO!”

Well, a portion of movie is shot in Hyderabad, where I’m living now. And I guess the place where it has been shot resembles ‘Hi-Tec City’, where I work (yeah I getting personal now) it once was rocky and empty space.

For record, Hyderabad ricks and specially rickshawala looks good, this can happen only in movie.

Lastly, this genre of movie has become extinct now, that’s why you should watch. I bet you are mostly likely to sympathise with Garib ka pyaar, as most of middle class dude do.