The Bollywood Beast

A Story by Abishai100

A Bollywood (India) movie about a terrorist-turned-thief draws in not only Hollywood (USA) interest but an actual damned terrorist!

I had a request from a relative to generate a fun thief-story set in India and involving Bollywood movie-markets, and this is what I came up with. What do yout think, my friends? Thanks for reading,

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Hollywood (USA) was making iconic films about modern imagination and culture. They were also mixing in ancient mythology films for a nice blending of new age storytelling with classic pillars of values. Yes sir, Hollywood was all fun in the new millennium. The actors in this modern era wanted to be experimental with new kinds of movies.

Two Hollywood thespians, an actor named Sean and an actress named Ali, wanted to make a comic book oriented or themed film being produced in Bollywood (India). Now, Bollywood was the Asian counterpart to Hollywood. India had been making countless iconic films, but Bollywood was now investing in much more street-smart and pedestrian oriented stories in cinema, making Bollywood films much more exciting and adventurous. New age Hollywood stars wanted to cash in on this intriguing new and very eccentric entertainment market, especially since now, Bollywood films could be found quite liberally on Netflix. Sean and Ali wanted to travel to Bollywood to film a movie about a comic book stylized story featuring a terrorist-turned-thief in New Delhi. Ali was particularly excited and spoke about this Bollywood (India) project at the San Diego Comic-Con (comic book convention) festival!

Ali was to portray a fancy dancer visiting Delhi but being swept up in some India-Pakistan terrorism intrigue surrounding the politically troubled area of Kashmir, which was ironically if tragically very idyllic and scenic. Ali was to portray a dancer who'd have to dye her hair after being kidnapped by the terrorist who wished to destroy a Delhi bank but ended up deciding to become a bank robber after being somehow moved or persuaded by Ali's character to become less violent and more fun. Ali's character was the girlfriend of Sean's male character who was helping the Indian police try to find his hostage girlfriend.

ALI: Well, this Air India flight is sure nice and hospitable.

SEAN: Air India stewardesses are renowned for their in-flight courtesy.

ALI: I'm excited about this terrorist-thief Bollywood film, Sean.

SEAN: Me too!

The Bollywood actor portraying the terrorist-turned-thief was an unknown rising thespian named Amlan Mukherjee ('AM') and wanted to nail this exciting role. He was intrigued that the two Hollywood (USA) stars wanted to make this Indian movie with the director who was known for making wild street-smart modern films and was being compared to John Woo. Amlan ('AM') was to portray a radical modern Indian terrorist with relatives who're involved in the Naxalite movement and interested in defying Muslim Pakistan's insistence to seize control of Hindu-Muslim divided Kashmir, a scenic mountainous region in Southeast Asia. Amlan ('AM') was to portray a very dystopian terrorist who decides to become a very delicious bank robber after being psychologically (and spiritually!) persuaded by Ali's American character. Amlan ('AM') wanted to portray his character as a real devil.

SEAN: "I think this Bollywood (India) film is really about bank robbery and not about Naxalite terrorism, so I doubt fans should think about why this movie's about the intrigue surrounding Kashmir and more about the general modern human romance surrounding bank robbery and why it stirs our natural commerce-era street fears about general capital depression; that's why I'm excited about what I consider an offbeat anti-terrorism Indian movie!"

Ali and Sean were placed in a very lavish celebrity guest-house in New Delhi while making this unusual terrorism-turned-thief film in Bollywood (India). They were provided every amenity and the best Indian cuisine so their stay would be comfortable and memorable. Their house was also WiFi equipped, enabling them to keep in touch with their fans on Facebook regarding the political significance and weight of this very strange Indian movie. Ali and Sean considered their special Delhi celebrity guest-house very first-class!

Ali was to be costumed in the finest Indian sarees for her character's scenes as a specially-invited dancer from America, making a series of performances showcasing the proud tradition of classical Indian dancing. Ali looked really good in an Indian saree, and the Bollywood movie-director was very pleased with the development of the story and storytelling. It was this fancy visiting Western dancer who was to be kidnapped by Amlan's terrorist character focusing on Kashmir.

Now, Indian fashions had long invested in the aesthetic quality of saree clothing and considered saree style very amenable to the beauty and magic of cinema. In fact, women in sarees in India were considered ideal for movie scenes which is the Bollywood movie director making this terrorist-turned-thief film wanted to highlight the general cultural flair for saree fashions, even from a street-imagination perspective. This was therefore a very 'typical' Indian movie.

ALI'S CHARACTER: I dare you to abandon Mission Kashmir and rob the Delhi bank!

AMLAN'S CHARACTER: You're daring me to turn into a nonviolent and skillful thief?

ALI'S CHARACTER: Why can't you renounced violence and embrace a skillful adventure?

AMLAN'S CHARACTER: I detest your Western pride, but I'll do this for you.

ALI'S CHARACTER: Alright then; let's see if you're really the 'darkman' you claim to be!

The terrorists working with Amlan's character were also Naxalites and detested Muslim claims in Kashmir. These terrorists would help Amlan's character rob the impressive laser-secured DCB Bank in New Delhi (India). So, apparently, Amlan's character is literally moved by Ali's character to rob the DCB Bank and create an alternative message about the pursuit of adventure that can potentially be nonviolent if employed with enough skill. Bank robbery, after all, can be nonviolent, unlike modern terrorism which is always confrontational by arms and bullets.

During the filming of this Bollywood (India) movie inside the actual DCB Bank, Amlan ('AM') performed his teller-robbery scene with great flair, but while the actual teller from the DCB Bank was being filmed, Amlan ('AM') winked at him and secretly passed him a note which read, "I'm actually a real Naxalite terrorist robbing this bank, so just keep $10 million in cash in a bag outside in the rear exit of the bank building, and I'll pick it up after filming this scene, and keep this a secret...or we'll find you and kill you, kind gentleman!" The teller was stunned and performed the commanded duty and continued to film the scene with Amlan's character and then placed the $10 million in cash in the bag in the rear of the bank building as Amlan ('AM') secretly commanded!

Amlan purchased a brand new Maruti car with his stolen money and gifted it to Sean and Ali, as they enjoyed the gift by joy-riding together all over New Delhi. Meanwhile, Amlan ('AM') masked himself and made a media statement about the value of new age inventive terrorism and why it might be linked to bank robbery and why terrorists are forced to seek alternative sources of funding in these very politically turbulent and divisive times in anti-globalization tremors (e.g., 9/11). Anyway, Sean and Ali really loved their Maruti car gift from Amlan ('AM').

AMLAN ('AM'): "This is a mission in modern times to create serious forms of street-dialogue, and it requires and mandates all kinds of inventive thinking and creative revolutionary tactics, including of course, bank robbery, which is why this Hindu-Muslim India-Pakistan skirmish over idyllic Kashmir can be likened to the troubles in Northern Ireland and the Protestant-Catholic rift; that's why this terrorist deed and mission during the filming of this unique and thrilling Bollywood (India) film represents our goal to use any means available to create true media/social designs."

Ali and Sean simply had no clue what they'd become involved with during the filming of this terrorist-turned-thief film in Bollywood (India). All they knew was they'd completed a handsome portrait of modern globalization politics intrigue and the imagination behind new age street-smarts storytelling. Amlan Mukherjee ('AM') was a real-life terrorist working with Naxalite factions and quite a skilled bank robber, as it turned out. Nevertheless, the Bollywood (India) movie turned out to be a great entertaining blockbuster in India.

The Indian authorities meanwhile were enraged by the red-tape and robbery investigation that ensued after the filming was completed, but the movie-director claimed complete ignorance, so police-work unfortunately had to continue in India, with the same standards of procedure and bureaucracy!

ALI: "That was a really exciting experience, because this Bollywood (India) movie was really about why modern day pedestrians consider new age politics so damned dystopian, and that's what made this cinema adventure quite different for me and Sean!"

Ironically, the Bollywood film inspired American film-maker Christopher Nolan to make an Americanized version of the thrilling story, a story which ended up inspiring a comic book writer to pen some stories about terrorists-turned-thieves that interested younger fans as well in the USA.

The Nolan film starred movie superstar-actress Jennifer Connelly and featured a futuristic look about a terrorist-turned-thief who continues to seek to defy the oppressive standards of the ruling state in a post-apocalyptic regime simply called 'W.'

AMLAN ('AM'): "I'm actually fascinated by the very unusual fact that this story's inspired comic book stories in America that's reaching kids in North America, because we revolutionaries want nothing more than modern globalization dialogue to create more street chatter about the imagination behind the cures to leviathan!"

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)