bollywood
first of all...appologies to mr. bachchan...for the title..sir, i am an admirer of yours...howevr i beg to differ with your view...indian movie industry is aptly titles as bollywood..and so is the title of this blog...
the other day i saw the year 2007's biggest commercial success...om shanti om...it struck me after watching the movie that these filmmakers make a huge moron out of us...throuout the movie they satired on the indian(south movies included) movie scene...yet the movie was effectively presenting the same garbage stuff...stylishedly garnished...as its core story line...
then i realised that these movie makers are nothing but businessman..shrewd ones...
as far as my understanding of the term art goes it is something by means of which we bring out our emotions in a creative way.....and based on my perception i ask myself..are the movies made by these people a subject of art?...how are they artists?
its so freaking funny that how shamelessly thaey copy movies from the west and elsewhere..now please...im not sayingthat i am huge fan of hollywood and all...and that i despise indian movies...the thing is that hollywood has its own share of shit...lots of it...but then its very brave enough to try and to be creative...not everystroke can fetch u a six..but a good decent honest try is always admirable...thses efforts of creativity and genuineness are far in betwen in india...
once this guy from the u.s.a. asked me...what all indian movies you could recommend...now i wud like to tell you that i have seen a million movies but i had to think hard to come up with the name of 5...thats is because most of them have been grotesquely copied from the west...and that too sadly..and the rest are plain bad...and to actually zero down on the ones u could suggest to a foreigner...the one u think has a global theme...universally appealable...very difficult to find...
our filmmakers(...aaaa....film businessman...)often opine that they make meaningless song dance cliched shit because indian people are very tensed and have a hectic life so they need to beentertained...now what they actually meann by this is that...listen we are very incompetent...we dont want to wisen the audience or they will identify our gross incpabitilies...so we will continbue making shit and publicise it ina grand way...give interviews every where and create a scandal just before the release...and will make money from it...art?what the fuck is that? oh sorry...bad hollywood word..guess too many english dvds have been watched to make a hindi movie...
there used to be a time in the past when actually some very good movies have been made...the time perhaps when people cared about making one passionateyl...and i say with a lot of optimism...there soon will be a time in the future...partly because some of the stuff of late is very promising..and mostly because audience is begining to wisen up because english foreign dvds are available to them too...but that will have its own course of time passage...
people often ask me what genre and kind of mvies i like...i say...any kind..as long as it appears to be of the genre its supposed to be...a thriller should be able to give you thrills...a mindless comedy should make you laugh at its silliness..a horror should make u dread to just watch it...a romantic should make you get goosebumps...a musical should fill you with exuberance...an action shud inspire you to workout...a movie should be just honest to its genre...should be able to tickle the emotion in you that it aims at...
i always say...more than in the story...its in the story telling...
the other day i saw the year 2007's biggest commercial success...om shanti om...it struck me after watching the movie that these filmmakers make a huge moron out of us...throuout the movie they satired on the indian(south movies included) movie scene...yet the movie was effectively presenting the same garbage stuff...stylishedly garnished...as its core story line...
then i realised that these movie makers are nothing but businessman..shrewd ones...
as far as my understanding of the term art goes it is something by means of which we bring out our emotions in a creative way.....and based on my perception i ask myself..are the movies made by these people a subject of art?...how are they artists?
its so freaking funny that how shamelessly thaey copy movies from the west and elsewhere..now please...im not sayingthat i am huge fan of hollywood and all...and that i despise indian movies...the thing is that hollywood has its own share of shit...lots of it...but then its very brave enough to try and to be creative...not everystroke can fetch u a six..but a good decent honest try is always admirable...thses efforts of creativity and genuineness are far in betwen in india...
once this guy from the u.s.a. asked me...what all indian movies you could recommend...now i wud like to tell you that i have seen a million movies but i had to think hard to come up with the name of 5...thats is because most of them have been grotesquely copied from the west...and that too sadly..and the rest are plain bad...and to actually zero down on the ones u could suggest to a foreigner...the one u think has a global theme...universally appealable...very difficult to find...
our filmmakers(...aaaa....film businessman...)often opine that they make meaningless song dance cliched shit because indian people are very tensed and have a hectic life so they need to beentertained...now what they actually meann by this is that...listen we are very incompetent...we dont want to wisen the audience or they will identify our gross incpabitilies...so we will continbue making shit and publicise it ina grand way...give interviews every where and create a scandal just before the release...and will make money from it...art?what the fuck is that? oh sorry...bad hollywood word..guess too many english dvds have been watched to make a hindi movie...
there used to be a time in the past when actually some very good movies have been made...the time perhaps when people cared about making one passionateyl...and i say with a lot of optimism...there soon will be a time in the future...partly because some of the stuff of late is very promising..and mostly because audience is begining to wisen up because english foreign dvds are available to them too...but that will have its own course of time passage...
people often ask me what genre and kind of mvies i like...i say...any kind..as long as it appears to be of the genre its supposed to be...a thriller should be able to give you thrills...a mindless comedy should make you laugh at its silliness..a horror should make u dread to just watch it...a romantic should make you get goosebumps...a musical should fill you with exuberance...an action shud inspire you to workout...a movie should be just honest to its genre...should be able to tickle the emotion in you that it aims at...
i always say...more than in the story...its in the story telling...
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