So we were having this discussion a few days back. It all started when we watched some shitty movie. Then from somewhere someone mentioned what a great movie “Dil Chahta Hai” was; and naturally, most of us happily agreed. I love that movie. Some attitude man!

Anyway, so one of our friends, the movie critique of the gang — Anish Karindikar — gave everyone a piece of his mind. According to him, DCH was simply the better shit among the trash that Bollywood was dishing out at that time. The guts! :-O :-D He barely escaped a GPL, but sparked a heated debate in its wake.

We were all simply apalled at the very fact that someone could even dislike DCH. Anish’s main argument was that DCH was simply a feel good, non realistic, entertainment movie, with no “value”. Big deal, we said. Movies are supposed to be for entertainment, aren’t they? Sure a lot of good movies carry some moral-of-the-story as well. But if a movie is “purely” entertainment, isn’t it worth being called a good movie?

From there we went on to things like: movies reflect a society’s values. If a movie is just entertainment and nothing else, what does it say about the society? Others said that nothing is “pure” entertainment, and everything has “some” value.