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Originally Posted by HindustaniLadka
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All other reginol movies are also played all over the world...Quote:
Originally Posted by HindustaniLadka
HL - the complaint is not against making colleges look colourful ... the complaint is against the tendency that most hindi filmmakers have, of favouring STYLE over SUBSTANCE. if you want to make your film look colourful, then by all means go ahead ... but for God's sake don't make that the main theme of the film!Quote:
Originally Posted by HindustaniLadka
the reason i say this is that most young filmmakers these days (and this includes the likes of karan johar, aditya chopra et al) really don't make films that address relevant themes or issues - and all the "making colleges look colourful" stunts are used only to cover up for the non-existence of such themes. the glitzy sets and the glam locales are generally used to distract the viewer from the film's wafer-thin plot.
of course, having said that - we must also applaud the efforts of people like farhan akhtar - i though Dil Chahta Hai and Lakshya were two SERIOUSLY good films. they stuck to the mainstream pattern of hindi cinema - they had the usual masala elements, esp DCH - BUT they were also technically brilliant, had strong storylines (esp Lakshya) with solid acting performances. and most important -they were entertaining.
just goes to show what good filmmaking is about - it's really all about making a whole that's greater than the sum of its parts - its a concept that not many in hindi cinema seem to have embraced.
What are Hindi movies all about these days? All Punjabi weddings !! Is this great for you guys? Compare movies like Deewar, Company, Fiza, Yuva with Kal Ho Na Ho, DDLJ, etc. No reality. It's just colors and glitz. Maybe the Indians raised in America will like it because it does not show the real India. Clearly, Tamil movies are so much better than the Hindi movies. I just don't understand why the Hindi movies changed its trend from revolving around Bombay to going all the way up to Punjab and show that as India. And SRK is the biggest contributor to this shift. If Amitabh had a bad guy with 4 fights and 5 songs, SRK has a big Punjabi family, a wedding, a love story in between, and about 8-10 group dance songs with all kutas and pyjamas. OMG !! Save Hindi cinema...
i'm surprised (and glad!) to know that some people actually liked Yuva - for some reason it doesn't seem to have done too well up north ... prob'ly bcos people there aren't used to watching films with such contemporary themes ... ?!Quote:
Originally Posted by m_23_bayarea
Yeah u r right...but Yuva did make a lot of news than other movies...there was a lot of discussion bout the movie and the theme of it...Quote:
i'm surprised (and glad!) to know that some people actually liked Yuva - for some reason it doesn't seem to have done too well up north ... prob'ly bcos people there aren't used to watching films with such contemporary themes ... ?
GO HINDUSTANI LADKA! J'AI HINDI! (what ever that means)
Sat sri akaal Sardarni, kee haal hai? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by oohlala
Gawd....u know telugu as well, huh?!! :D....quite impressed! 'guess it makes u feel more Indian to know various local langs. rather than being fluent in just one/two....(atleast it makes me feel tat way!) :wink:
Neways, coming back to the topic in qsn. I'd like to add a few more exceptionally good tel. movies- old & new- to my earlier list (& Surya's):
- Mogudu Pellallu (*ing Bhanupriya, altho it didn't seem to've made a very big hit?)
-Swarna Kamalam (Bhanupriya again)
-Swathimuthyam (altho therez a tamil version too!)
-Pavithra Bandham
-Kshemanga velli labhanga randi (not the songs tho!)
-Annamayya (Nagarjuna)
-Aa naluguru (just saw it 2 days ago!)
will name more later as I recollect...... :D
Hmm.....personally I don't find the standard of the stories ne better even in South (in this case Telugu) movies in recent years.....most of them hav cheap comedy consisting of double-meaning dialogues, exaggerated emotions and reeeeally pathetic scenes like showing a woman's saree pallu falling/wearing/taking off the saree/leching at a woman etc....which pass off as comedy! eeeyuck.... :x :banghead:Quote:
Originally Posted by oohlala
:lol: I think even in the South this is the trend today! Only diff. is Hindi films now focus on Western looks whereas South is sticking to trad. looks....to sum extent atleast!Quote:
Originally Posted by oohlala
Mee too agree! And its not just the matter of providing a 'colourful' atmosphere tat defies logic in case of Bollywood.....I've noticed (& I'm sure evn most others) tat in many Hindi movies, whenever there is a car chase sequence or showing someone travelling in a car, the car/s in the sequence are suddenly (& illogically) changed from one scene to the next!Quote:
Originally Posted by ramsri
For eg. an Amby or a Fiat shown in one scene becomes 10 years newer/older in the next! And then a dent or a broken taillight/Headlight on a car is magically absent/repaired on the same car in the very next scene!
That was a good scene. I love SPB's voice in that song also! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by lordstanher
I know a little. I can understand, but not really speak it. :D
PS: I just saw a movie called ARYA yesterday!! :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: Now my head hurts! :evil:
It's just a stupid love story, pakka masala. But that masala also wasnt made well. U gotta see it to have the reaction of non-stop headbanging until u pass out. :lol2: