Definition : The Villain's LairThe villain has cooler digs than even the filmy zamindaars and magnates. On the face of it the bad guy headquarters might look like an ordinary cave, you had better star quaking in your boots. This cave is replete with gadgetry, starting with automatic doors. As you sneak in from one part of the labyrinth to another, you will come across lots of hi-tech looking gizmos connected to each other via blinking computer screens and wires and button panels where a self distruct button blinks enticingly. The best remembered examples are seen in the Bond films and of course the Ajit movies of yesteryear. Mr.India had the coolest acid baths and Kala Sona and Mr. Natwarlal had the best jail like torture chambers.

The High Seat of Dishonor:

In order to remind us of how powerful the villain really is, there must be a throne of some sort for the boss. In Endhiran or Robot, when the good scientist Rajnikanth turns into the bad clone Chitti, the director takes it one step further, and the bad robot army sing a song that celebrates the power, and the big bad robot ascends the throne, walking with two robotic lions...

In movies like Agent Vinod, the bad guys were a consortium, so they usually sat in a conference room like seating, whether it was in a hotel room or high up in an airplane. The row of chairs in a durbaar like setting was for the rest of the gang. There was always ample space between the chairs for the sexily turned out heroines or item numbers to dance and sing to distract them.

Lair Decor

No self respecting interior designer will admit to the garish show of wealth but it is there in the villain's lair. And they always but always have the disco ball. The lair must always have a bar with lots of alcohol bottles, esp VAT69. That's the only way baddies will raise their glasses and tap their feet to the dance beat, smiles pasted on their faces..

Party of the song:It's always jashn time when foreign connections visit to make "bahut badee deal" making the song and dance routine a given.

The event manager is missing, because the original performers will be inevitably bound and gagged and shoved into a room by the hero or the heroine or both. During the course of the final fight or when the hero has rescued the prisoner/booty, they must naturally try and speak through the gags when the baddies burst into the room! (Directors soon saved footage and have stopped showing the gagged artists because it is assumed that the audience already knows about the exchange of places!) So you see Sridevi appear directly as Hawa Hawaii, and no gagged sqwirming person is shown in the closet.

Note also that the guests who look like they walked into a wrong party will mill around or stand around in groups oblivious to the situation or scene.Their expressions mostly at cross purposes to the song.

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