Business Talk-Bollywood

Rona bandh karo!
am slightly amused by naysayers, worrywarts and cynics predicting doomsday already, so early in 2008. Hey, the year has just begun, why are we crying hoarse so soon? Agreed, the first month of the new year hasn't begun on a brighter note, so what? We still have eleven months left and the next 47/48 Fridays can change the tide.Besides, why are we writing obituaries already? If you've even .0001% knowledge of business, you wouldn't fire the salvo so soon. The first few months have always been slow, with business picking up only in the latter part of the year. That has been the trend of last 20 odd years. Incidentally, weren't obituaries always reserved during the year-end? Bhagwan bachaye ein pessimists se…Despite a string of flops in January, there's no pessimism within the industry. People are busy announcing multiple projects and distributors are acquiring them for hefty amounts. As for the actors, they've never had it so good. Knock on any actor's doors and he/she'd reply, "We're booked till 2009." The ratio of flops has always dominated Bollywood, from the 1980s onwards. So why this hullabaloo, why this noise, why these cry-for-survival