Padmaavat: Here's what happens when 'I' is dropped
What's the story
Sanjay Leela Bhansali's magnum opus Padmavati is now called Padmaavat. Though the removal of 'I' doesn't affect the period drama's subject much, if tried with certain other popular Hindi movies, it can give drastic (and often hilarious) results. Here, we bring you choicest examples of all that can happen when 'I' is dropped from a Bollywood film's name.
A blockbuster
Barfi: Barf, a promotional feature for Himachal Tourism, or Trump
Which story do you prefer? Wait. We know already. Himachal is too beautiful to need a promotional film and Trump's life too juicy to let go. But Barf for Trump? Of course. With his blindness towards climate change and always confusing it with local weather (check his tweets), nothing else makes for a better title for his biopic. No, not even Fire and Fury.
Attacking patriarchy
Main Hoon Na: Man Hoon Na
The 2004 Shah Rukh Khan movie can be reimagined as an insightful commentary on IPC Section 498A, which makes cruelty by husband or his relatives a punishable offense. It will make for a timely movie, considering that women worldwide are finally opening up on gender abuse, sexual harassment and assault. It could also be a film highlighting India's discomfort with law against marital rape.
Knowing our leaders
Mother India: Mother NDA, a Sushma Swaraj biopic
Let's admit it, the nation does want to know. Other than the External Affairs Minister's active Twitter account, her omniscient big red bindi and motherly personality, there's little that India knows about Sushma Swaraj's life or her journey to becoming one of National Democratic Alliance's formidable leaders. Even Mehboob Khan, the late director of the original, would have been curious about Mother NDA.
Brilliance, some more
Never underestimate the power of a missing vowel
We have several other million-dollar suggestions. If only a Bollywood filmmaker would consider. DL Se, the I-less version of Mani Ratnam's Dil Se, could make for a fantastic movie on Delhi's soul-sucking traffic and air pollution woes. Askhay Kumar's Toilet: Ek Prem Katha becomes To Let: Ek Prem Katha, a tale of the unending struggle of live-in couples trying to rent a habitable space.
Temporary
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