There's something about Bollywood

We have all been playing the tune over and over in our heads for the past few months and we just could not resist queueing up to watch it on screen in that latest Bollywood 'debut', the heroine moving her hips in the most sensual manner while performing those shuffling little steps and the hero running in slow motion towards her with his perfectly combed hair - needless to mention mountaintops with snow in the background - and although all this will appear laughably ridicule to us, we will secretly enjoy every second of it. chances are we might even call for an encore.

Question: What is it that turns what seem to be normally constituted persons into Bollywood lovers? how come we never seem to get enough of the songs, drama, chaste family values, action, ridiculous comedy, love affairs, of the completely nonsensical plot et j'en passe that are totally inherent to Bollywood movies? what is it that makes all this masala the perfect ingredient in our plate?

Well, you can just pick and choose any of the following: cheerfulness, breezy entertainment, melodious hard-to-get-rid-of  tunes, sensuality, voluptuous bodies, the 3 Gs (glitz, glitter and glamour), the decor, backgrounds, sceneries, unforgettable lines such as "kaminey, kutte, mein tumse nahin choroonga", cheesy ones, the dhooshoob-dhooshoob and bling bling, the magic combination of stars pairing up on screen, the terrible yet touching B movies where the actors hardly know their lines, the kitsch, the colorful costumes, the dramatic scenes and last but not least...Amitabh Bachchan. Bollywood definitely has a language of its own, that of sultry emotion, nah?