Finally, Da Bangg!

when the crowd hoots as Sallu Bhai cracks open a door

and rolls with laughter when the evil men’s bones crack;

Where the wit has one asking for more

and the whistling sounds like part of the sound-track..

Where the lead actress is fully covered yet sizzling

and the item girl has a thousand men nuzzling..

Where the dialogues are rude, crass yet real,

Where the fight sequences look surreal

and an "ordinary" thanedaar has enough power to command ten cars

where a cop is corrupt yet fair

where the villains all look like grizzly bears

For that heaven of melodrama

I pray

Dear God, let Bollywood awake

Into that magic of movies, let Bollywood, forevermore break!

Amen!

P.S. Needless to say, I enjoyed Dabangg, lock, stock and barrel. Dear Bollywood, can we have more such completely unreal, surreally brazen-comic-book-style-action-sequenced, crassily-rustically-dialogued, magically-cutely-romantic yet realistic dramedies with mad-bad heroes please!!