Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan believes Hollywood has destroyed local film industries all over the world.
Bachchan, who is currently promoting his upcoming film 102 Not Out, said that today's audiences have started to prefer Hollywood's big blockbusters over Indian films, reports The Indian Express. .
"Everywhere Hollywood has gone, it has destroyed the local industry whether it’s England, Italy or Germany, they just come and take over. They have the money and the expertise. They have the quality and quantity. We are fighting against them,” he said.
The 102 Not Out star stressed on the importance of reinventing the Bollywood film industry to cater to modern audiences. Though he realises Bollywood can't keep up with Hollywood in terms of technology, he's still optimistic with the younger generation of Indian filmmakers, who are leading the way by taking up ambitious projects.
Bachchan also said it is vital not to patronise western films "because we are fighting against an ogre of Hollywood from overtaking us and destroying our industry."
102 Not Out, directed by Umesh Shukla, releases in India on 4 May. It also releases in Russia on the same day.
Veteran actor Rishi Kapoor will be seen sharing screen space with Bachchan after two decades. The film, based on a Gujarati play written by Saumya Joshi, revolves around a 75-year-old son and his 102-year-old father, who wishes to break the world record of being the oldest man alive — held by a 118-year-old Chinese man.
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I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Any great books, excerpts, poetry books y'all recommend? TIA!
*UPDATE* Truly appreciate the diversity amongst the authors and their works!
Here's a running list of all the recommendations (and some I added) in no specific order:
When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi
Wings of Fire: An Autobiography - A P J Abdul Kalam, Arun Tiwari
If They Come For Us - Fatima Asghar
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
The Gilded Wolves Trilogy - Roshani Chokshi
A Burning - Megha Majumdar
This Divided Island - Samanth Subramanian
The Inheritance of Loss - Koran Desai
The Association of Small Bombs - Karan Mahajan
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
Woman World - Aminder Dhaliwal
The Tiger At Midnight trilogy - Swati Teerdhala
The Story of a Brief Marriage - Anuk Arudpragasam
Winners Take All - Anand Giridharadas
Well Behaved Indian Women - Saumya Dav
Dimpleverse - Sandhya Menonwhich
My So-Called Bollywood Life- Nisha Sharma
The Sunset Club - Khushwant Singh
Burial at Sea - Khushwant Singh
Keep off the grass - Karan Bajaj
The Bullet and the Ballot Box - Aditya Adhikari
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
The village by the sea - Anita Desai
Folktales from India - A.K Ramanujan
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
We Have Always Been Here - Samra Habib
The Palace of Illusion - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Before we visit the Goddess - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri
Such a Long Journey - Rohinton Mistry
The Ivory Throne - Manu S Pillai
Rebel Sultans - Manu S Pillai
Like a Bird - Fariha Róisín
Cutting for Stone - Abraham Varghese
Funny Boy - Selvadurai
The Henna Artist - Alka Joshi
Lion - Saroo Brierley
Think Like a Monk - Jay Shetty
Secret Daughter - Shilpi Somaya Gowda
The shadow of the crescent moon - Fatima Bhutto
Unaccustomed Earth - Jhumpa Lahiri
Lowland - Jhumpa Lahiri
Godaan - Premchad
Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi
Sam Wyndham Series - Abir Mukherjee
Perveen Mistry Series - Sujata Massey
A Place for Us - Fatima Ferheen Mirza
A Good Immigrant - Nikesh Shukla
The One Who Wrote Destiny - Nikesh Shukla
The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid
A Good Wife - Samra Zafar
Difficult Daughters - Manju Kapoor
Poetry - Imtiaz Dharker
Milk and Honey - Rupi Kaur
The sun and her flowers - Rupi Kaur
Home body - Rupi Kaur
Gitanjali - Rabindra
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I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
Heard they've been doing some shady business.
They’re on standbi
Pilot on me!!
Nothing, he was gladiator.
Or would that be too forward thinking?
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
When I got home, they were still there.
but then I remembered it was ground this morning.
Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me my jokes aren't stale
Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments
I won't be doing that today!
This morning, my 4 year old daughter.
Daughter: I'm hungry
Me: nerves building, smile widening
Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.
She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.
Thank you all for listening.
Where ever you left it 🤷♀️🤭
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There hasn't been a post all year!
You take away their little brooms
It was about a weak back.
It’s pronounced “Noel.”
After all his first name is No-vac
What, then, is Chinese rap?
Edit:
Notable mentions from the comments:
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Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits
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French/Finnish art
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Country/Canadian rap
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Chinese/Country/Canadian rock
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Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap
There hasn't been a single post this year!
(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)
Nothing, it just waved
