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The Poor Want Purpose

In: India Reloaded

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  • Dheeraj Sinha

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Dabangg (Audacious) is a highly successful Bollywood movie with an equally successful sequel Dabangg 2. The two movies together have amassed close to Rs. 500 crores ($80 million). The movies feed on Bollywood star Salman Khan’s appeal and his demeanor — wearing his shades on his back collar and his effortless Bollywood style dance, swinging his waist while adjusting his belt. The movies have a mainstream appeal with item songs that add to their rustic and raunchy quotient. But there’s more to Dabangg’s appeal. Dabangg is also a story of the quintessentially poor and downtrodden, who rise above their circumstances and ensure justice for everyone. The protagonist, police officer Chulbul Pandey, played by Salman Khan behaves less like a law abiding, government officer, more like Robinhood Pandey. He believes in instant justice and shoots his opponents at will. Dabangg’s appeal is in reinstating the rights and the respect of the masses. It makes the powerless feel powerful, even if it’s only for two and half hours. The raunchy dance sequences and the well-choreographed fight scenes are a bonus.

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  • Dheeraj Sinha, 2015. "The Poor Want Purpose," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: India Reloaded, chapter 0, pages 24-39, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-36710-5_3
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137367105_3
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