And I do know that emergence of china as a super power is not a good news for India.
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And I do know that emergence of china as a super power is not a good news for India.
Shankar gives a message to Indians through Anniyan! That is news to me! I have seen some worthy serious message in movies such as KaruththammA, avargaL, kutty etc. They do have very serious messages to the society and for the middle-class people especially.Quote:
I think that too is a message in the film
When Shankar comes up with a message through "one-day CM" and "stranger" and the "punks" (boys), it only cracks me up!
Please, go and watch our fellow indians, when boarding Air-India in north america (Dallas or Chicago or New York) how the Indians follow the "rules of boarding". It is a shame! The cheap, unprofessional attitude of Indians never change no matter where they live. The same Indians will be responsible and do their job perfectly when boarding with majority of white-passengers when boarding in an AA or United or Delta.Quote:
When people from our country can go in mass to countries like malaysia and behave responsibly why cant they behave the same way in India?
It is nothing but a joke if someone seriously believes that Shankar is working on fixing the society through his movies. But, he is, sure, entertaining people by painting the mountains and inspiring Hollywood flicks like Matrix. He is surely helping Kunjumon, A M Rathnam and Oscar to make big bucks.
Is he sending a serious message to the society through his movies which will ever get to the people???
A big NO!
That is of course my humble opinion! 8)
Well, I'm yet to see Anniyan (btw, I think Vikram looks much better in tat Iyengar garb than he does in reality! :wink: :lol2: ).......but I've noticed tat altho such films (Mudalvan, Sami r other eg.) r made by & large w/ the idea of 'enlightening' the masses abt issues affecting our society & seem to carry a message for ppl. in them, tat effect is all usually marred by including of mostly cheap-ish, vulgar dances in the songs of most o these movies......!Quote:
Originally Posted by stranger
Its like, the entire seriousness of the 'message' tat these movies r meant to carry is lost w/ all these unwanted, giltzy gimmicks! :x
Ppl. tend to like watching these films mainly for this stuff & miss out on the original idea the movie was made for.......so it eventually jus becomes another action-romance-song-dance movie to entertain & fill up the box office.......tats the main reason even such films fail to make the imapct on ppl. tat they r expected to.......tks to being diluted w/ such cheap commercially oriented gimmicks!
IMHO, twud've been better if there weren't songs/dances w/ such levels of vulgarity in them, which tend to deviate the minds of many ppl. (read male audience!) from the main message tat is being rightly conveyed in the story.....!
Yea, even I've noticed the same, contrasting behaviours among many of our ppl. while travelling in AI vs. travelling in Sing. Airlines or Silkair....... :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by stranger
Well, I daresay its bcos in "developed" nations, ppl. can seldom find nething to complain abt their own govt., their citizens, their countries' infrastructure etc. 'cos its all supposed to be developed.....so when they jus need sumthing to complain abt they start talking abt other nations/govts. & so-called "aliens"...... :wink: :lol2:Quote:
Originally Posted by ganesh79
-Just joking! :D
Um.......'don't rem. nething shown abt the Vietnam War either :? (which I think was put out by Jimmy Carter?).......one of the longest wars I've known abt!Quote:
Originally Posted by ganesh79
Um......speakin of China, ne idea y exactly Indian govt. is now freely allowing Chinese goods to flood the market?? After all these years of stiff competition w/ them even in terms of marketing products globally....... :?Quote:
Originally Posted by ganesh79
Why vietnam? Even the "hiroshima neethano...nagasaki neethano" is fully covered up and no one has made movie about it. There are dozen movies on pearl harbor attack though! And Shankar glorifies this in a song in a Tamil movie.. "Unmeedhu thano en kadhal bomb o". Doesn't know the seriousness of the situaion. Ah. Good job Shankar!
Yes but then Hiroshima-Nagasaki wud be of more significance to the history of Japan rather than US, rite?...... :?Quote:
Originally Posted by ganesh79
Vietnam War (which the US then called as War against communism) is significant as itwas poss' one of rthe longest in history.......raged on for nearly 2 decades- from the late '50s to the mid(?) '70s!
My suspicion is tat US is goin 2 repeat the same thing even in the 21st century, in case of the Iraq War (a.k.a War agnst Terrorism!)........doesn't look like its likely to end soon!
Mr Ganesh,
There is no point in continuing this discussion with you. You dont seem to get the point ! You talk about other countries painting themselves as Mahatma when in fact they have a lot of other problems. Just because other countries are stupid enough todo that ,its no reason for Indians todo the same. And FYI WE ARE NOT TRYING TO PUT DOWN INDIA !!! All we are saying is that there is no harm in accepting that we have areas where we need to change and go about changing it. Again I am not trying to blame anyone...each and every one of us as Indians should try to change ourselves first and behave in a irreproachable manner.We can then worry about the world. Andha country eppadi erruku,indha country eppadi errukku-nu vetti pechu pesinde errunda namma urupuda mattom!!
As if I am the person who started the art of comparing with other countries ...
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Is he sending a serious message to the society through his movies which will ever get to the people??? A big NO!
With this attituide, probably not. But my belief is that there are some people who to a reasonable extent wanted to change and behave more responsible. From your post I understand that maybe I should not count you in as one of them.
It is true but how would you come up a criticism or any comment if you dont compare others and other countries' and the people's attitude you learnt about?Quote:
Originally Posted by ssanjinika
"aduththaaththu ambujaththa paarththELA"- is also needed to certain extent to fix ourselves. 8)
You cant just start from nowhere. Can you? :roll: