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Love Aaj Kal = pinnacle of its genre(which can be said to be a refined version of yashraj)
So, cant compare with Vel or ATM.
Compare it with the pinnacle of the genre of Vel, ATM etc. kaNakku sariyA varum. Or even Subramanyapuram.
Infact, if you present LAK as a fine version of its genre, I'll present Virumandi as the pinnacle of the Madurai genre, and you'll lose deposit!
and how many virumandis have swarmed our market? but they are giving LAK, Jab we met, socha na tha, ahista ahista consistently - whichever way u look at it, no competition i sayQuote:
Originally Posted by Plum
Obviously i can't compare Sullan/Sivakasi etc with anything in Indhi then because that genre does not exist(?) there (Isn't that "itself" a point in favor of BW?)!Quote:
Originally Posted by Plum
I'm presenting LAK as something loathsome from Bollywood and i'm saying the worst of BW is > the worst of KW
Blood boils when we see the araajagam of designer crap and the mandatory foreign locales and opulence. Yet, what one feels when one watches *our* crap is something more (The loudness, aaarg!) . The only redemption is "comedy" but ippo adhuvum konjam lighta adi vaangudhu...
Let's take another department we own/have been owning - music.
There is loud kuthu paattu dominance in our industry. OTOS, i rarely see a "melliflous" duet - 94% club dance songs.. guruppa aadi paadraanga. Yet, even if i dont like the songs, they dont hurt my ears like our staple kuthu songs do.
I still believe namma music directors dhaan best nu but we need to be careful here
Amit thambi adichhu thookkittaru andha department-ayum......i was about to come there - sorry for bringing DevD everywhere - did we have a album like DevD in tamil for last 5 yrs.......i would say, even ARR's tamil albums pale in front of DevDQuote:
Originally Posted by crajkumar_be
ennatha independent film movement. Opening ellAm nallA thAn irunthuthu, AnA thalaivar okAnthu oru 400 words padikka mAtEngurAru. "You are unseletted"-nu solli thaNNi theLichchu vittAlAvathu paravA illa, athayum seyyAmA remba tensan paNrAru!Quote:
Originally Posted by kid-glove
Good point on the music. It is slowly and steadily declining. Even in the Malayalam film industry the music was the last to go.
Love Aaj Kal, Jab We Met, Socha Na Tha, Ahista Ahista. First two are hits, last two aren't. Varying levels of quality and craftsmanship, too.
Virumandi, Subramnayapuram(our objections dont count, if you dismiss SMP, I can dismiss JWM too).
Irritating genre we have but they dont - so-called mass movies
Irritating genre they have but we dont - tere sang, teen love, stupid college movies
dhaanikki dheenkiki sari poyindi.
And as I said, I am not sure if you are exposed to the worst of bollywood at all - like do you know the name of the movie that released with a visually-challenged-in-real-life hero, that was essentially a mass-movie-types-but-set-in-designer-clothes-style-of-bollywood? (Talk of taking the worst of two worlds!)
Music - we are slowly losing out, yes.
Well, anyone who grew up in the 80's'd be astounded at Bollywood today. Who ever thought this was possible?
I can only hope that like the usual WWTBAM->KBC->K happening in that sequence, even such movie making which started in Hollywood decades ago, and which has started in Bollywood recently, will start in Tamil in near future.
(NOTE: Kerala preceded Bollywood here-ngaradhai naan solla kadamai pattirukkirEn!)
Plum,
I think the fundamental difference is that they cater to people at different slabs in the Maslow hierarchy. But within their slabs both tend to slip into cliche's and generalize etc... The difference in Bollywood is that there seems to be some semblance of an overall creative vision at the least. Kollywood-la athu kooda illa. They are still allowing banality citing "market requirements" and such as an excuse.
If you are talking nativity - he can't write. He has mentioned in an interview that the only city in the world he can really care about is Bombay - that too South Bombay. He was blunt about that admission.Quote:
Originally Posted by Plum
If you are talking about 'stuff' - its not that he can't write PV, he won't :lol2: