1962 Sino-Indian war and India’s humiliating defeat from China

On 20^th October, 1962, China allegedly attacked Indian border posts probably the Indian police outpost. It was perhaps the first incident in the world were war was started by military or army attacking a police post (Though Chinese authorities hold a different view claiming It was India which started the aggression).

Though many Indians due to their over-patriotic nature make excuses for India’s defeat that it never suspected that China would attack or India was unprepared to repulse the aggression, there were enough warnings that China was going to attack India. Some incidents are like there were minor skirmishes between Indian troops and Chinese soldiers in 1960s before the war and lot of disputes regarding the border territories. Some even made excuses that Chinese soldiers outnumbered Indian troops whereas in Sino-Vietnamese war in 1979, Vietnam was able to counter Chinese attack being much smaller nation than India and its soldiers also being lesser than Chinese, which finally ended the war in a draw.

However, we did win a small conflict in Sikkim called the ‘Chola incident’ with China and countered their invasion when things were not in control.

We should learn from the 1962 defeat and learn from China instead of taking help from west who did not gave any kind of co-operation during the war. This is because that in the world of today, it is better to learn from a smart enemy and work with them rather than to have a stupid friend. 

Hollywood movies and songs remade in Bollywood

Hollywood was established way back in 1870 and then became a prominent space for film industry. In India, then Bombay and Mumbai now-a-days also had become the hub for Indian movies and therefore it was later named as Bollywood because it belonged to Bombay.

Most of the Indian movies are copied from Hollywood (it is sad but true). Examples are seemingly endless but we can name few of them. Rafoo Chakkar in 1975 which was a hit despite was copied from ‘Some Like It Hot’. ‘Dil Hai Ki Manta Nahi’ in 1991 was a direct lift off from ‘It Happened One Night’. ‘Chor Machaye Shor’ of 2002 starring Bobby Deol was a copy from Hollywood flick ‘Blue Streak’.  ’12 Angry Men’ of 1954 television show and 1957 movie was copied for Doordarshan show ‘Ek Ruka Hua Faisla’. ‘Boeing Boeing’ in 1965 was once remade in South and then remade in Bollywood as ‘Garam Masala’ of 2005. There are many other movies but they are so much that all cannot be listed in this blog.

The question arises that why most Indian movies are copied or inspired (in their producers words) from Hollywood. It maybe because of lack of skills available to develop and invent an idea. It maybe also because producers and script writers try to save time, money and effort by simply copying rather than innovating. They should understand the fact that audience is mature enough to understand and thus all Hollywood movies though proven to be hits and success in other parts of the world may not be successful if remade in India because of cultural and other differences between India and the west.