Porn, HiDefinition Video and Shahrukh Khan
The advent of Hidefinition video was considered to be one of the biggest threats to the adult video industry. Exposed to the very high resolution, many playgirls lost their allure and skin blemishes and minor imperfections stood glaringly. It became a make up man's night mare to camouflage the entire exposed skin and in porn , it is the entire body.
After buying a big screen high dedefinition TV, I feel that some of the middle aged super heroes of India will have the same fate. The scars, acne, age marks show up larger than life size a few feet away . It is a pain to watch Shahrukh Khan , especially on close ups, His grotesque expressions, twitches and other contrived muscular spams on face which could pass off as acting in a distant screen in a theatre, really tests the limits of aestehtic endurance. Now only , I realise how much the dimly lit theatres and poor projection systems in the country contribute to super stardom. He really looks old and a chain smoker on a Hi Def telly. Second in the difficult to watch list is Ajay Devagan. Though he is a good actor, his teeth at various stages of deterioration is a some thing that jars the sensibilities especially in a hero.
It is time, that the Bollywood film makers wakeup to the Hi Def and at least avoid closeups.
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