Hijacking Bollywood

While the plot thickens around the missing Malaysia Airlines flight, MH370, here is a question to be answered: Why does Bollywood fail abysmally when dealing with the theme of hijacking? It was only in the wake of 9/11 that a slow stream of hijacking movies started releasing. But all of them had the same formula (derailed flight, Islamic terrorists, innocent hostages, and a dash of romance), the same theme (almost always, it was the 1999 Kandahar hijack of flight IC814) and the same fate (box office washouts.) Here’s how the failure of imagination plays out.