World UFO Day: Decoding Bollywood Aliens
Bollywood’s perception of an alien has been the most bizarre ever. Take a look at some of them
It’s World UFO Day on July 2nd, but we don’t know if it’s appropriate to wish someone a Happy UFO day. However, it is quite alright to tell you how outrageously Bollywood portrays UFOs and aliens that travel in them!
Copy Cat Alien
This is the closest that we got to making an alien centric film in 2003. With Koi Mil Gaya, Rakesh Roshan attempted to copy what Steven Spielberg had already made a massive rage two decades ago with ET. We had a scientist communicating with extra-terrestrial life using the words ‘Om... Om... Om... Om’. That was the real jaadu here. Total facepalm!
Vegetable Aliens
A pumpkin, bitter gourd and some other costumed vegetables masquerading as aliens. What was Shirish Kunder thinking? The only thing apt in this ‘alien’ film was the village called Pagalpur and the title of the film Joker.
Alien Hotties
And if this is how aliens look, we really don’t mind them invading our planet. Raj Kumar Hirani made aliens look good in PK. Extremely perceptive, very brainy and amazingly sensitive - PK really does tell us that extra-terrestrial beings are highly intelligent and that’s exactly why they’ve not tried to make contact with us humans, yet!
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