Bhel puri ?

I had met a German guy while travelling some time back. He was in India for making a short film on Indian movie stars. The theme was how a movie star shuffles between identities while acting in multiple movies at the same time and still is able to retain his own (?) without getting influenced by any of the characters in his movies.

This he said wasn't much of a problem in the west (read Hollywood) as a movie star normally does only one movie at a time. In fact his contract doesn't allow him to do any other ventures.Quite an interesting theme i must say. I told him that not only do the actors here act in multiple movies at a single time (with diverse roles) but do multiple roles of a college teen, father and maybe even the grand father...act, dance,do action scenes, make people laugh n cry ....all in the same movie !!

Hollywood has genres, romantic, action, thriller...but we Indians want everything of that in the same movie from the same guy...whew !This also speaks a bit about how we think as a race....think of the languages, cultures and religions we follow. We, I'm sure, must be the only ones to invent something like a 'bhel puri'. This goes in our normal diet as well. We want bread (rotis), vegetables, dal, rice, aachar, papads, raita, curd...everything at the same time.

Isn't that unique in some sense ? and what does it say about us culturally?