About 2 weeks ago on one not really fine weekend when half the rooms in the hostel had locked doors and time seemed to be ticking away at the slowest possible speed, we the left over hostel inmates had found a dwelling place on our beds cursing the damn humidity (wondering if the speed of the fan was always that slow)...whiling away time in this lethargic fashion ultimately brought us to half past one..and we made our way through the portals of the unwelcoming MESS..
Paid bloody 115rs to get seats in the third row from the screen…and not to forget the highly highly overpriced café outside the movie hall filled with the irresistible aroma of junk food!!.. and to add to all this..damn the movie..and damn the person who suggested “Love aaj kal”…
Well..l actually I did not write this article to quetch about my hapless Sunday…but to express my extreme displeasure to the highly degrading quality of India’s entertainment industry…especially the filmdom…
The essence of film making seems to be shifting from creative and intelligent story telling to depicting absolutely baseless crap..just adorn a movie with a few beautiful people…and that’s it…the content can go to the dogs... Seriously speaking..”Rock On”..was the probably the last movie I enjoyed..it was ‘fun’ and most importantly ‘something different’…”Chak-de”..”Jodha Akbar”..”Fashion” are some movies worth mentioning..but then such movies are rare (or have become lately) to the greatest possible degree…
Nonsensical movies have gained their foothold in the market… “Rab ne bana di Jodi”..How the hell can just the removal of a moustache and change of attire make a person so utterly distinguishable that even his wife fails to recognize…something’s surely must have been innately wrong with her…”Love story- 2050”…a blunder..cant even be closely related to a sci-fi movie in any small way..must we mention that we did make a good beginning about a decade ago with “Mr India” and then years later with “Koi mil gaya”.. though the latter lacked originality ..but even then it was commendable. After this movie this genre of movie-making has been completely ignored…why???...
Pondering about the such movies in the west and a host of names come up…”Matrix”…”Star wars”..”Independence day”…”Transformers”..”E.T.”..”Armaggedon”…pieces of amazing cinematography combined with some splendid acting…
Chupke chuke…Chalti ka naam gadi…Andaaz apna apna…these legendary comedy movies are totally a thing of the past…at present the genre itself has expired from our industry…and whatever is left out of it is just confined to sexist and satirical humor…I fail to understand how movies like “Kambhaqt ishq”..”Partner” etc...manage to lure such a large audience…are we not disgusted and tired yet of the same banal and unamusing ‘jokes’ with the same elements as mentioned above..??...Actually we do get a good dosage of comedy movies in the form of horror movies… “Darna mana hai” and its sequel..”Phoonk”..”Krishna cottage”..”Ssshhh koi hai”..were more of a laughter riot rather than being scary...
We even tried out ‘Superhero’ stuff…with “krrish” but we better remain shhhh about it..while ”Spider-man”..”Batman”..”Superman”…keep us completely engrossed till the ending minute..so much so that we eagerly wait for their sequels…
Animated movies in our country are made just for toddlers as the target audience…In the west..animated movies themselves constitute a huge industry and made for people of all age groups.. “Ice-age”..”Kungfu panda”..”Over the hedge”..”Lion king”..”ratatouille”..”Madagascar”…the list is endless..each one with a different story-line..hilarious..and out n out funny..
Why is it that we are lacking so much in quality when infact even we are investing stupendous amounts of money inthis industry…films worth hundreds of crores are being made every year..but are highly lacking in calibre … like earlier movies today are not capable of exhibiting emotions in their pure or raw form…A new trend of copying the storylines from the west has started…it must be understood that simply replicating a movie from the west to an Indian version will not solve the problem..
On the contrary there are some intense emotions which only we Indians can project in its righteous form..A fanatabulous example being the bond of love shown between a mother and a son in the movie “Taare zameen pe”..”Parzania” being another brilliant piece showing the hard hitting reality of our nation…
The Indian film industry must reinstate its originality and creativity…for we have to our credit a chronicle of good film making preceding us…probably at present we’ve just got bewildered somewhere in the middle..
Hoping we bounce back at the earliest…
kya baat hai chaitu..seems to be totally frustated with indian movies(and waise not to forget u were the one to cum with the idea of gng to that nonsensical movie!!)..but really well done watever atleast the money wasted gave u an inspiration to write this lovely blog..but keep posting..Bravo to ur writing skills and ur blog..
ReplyDeleteseriously man.. every frame of TZP emoted an avalanche of feelings in me...while every scene of "love aaj kal" just made me jubilant that it was on my laptop on which i was watching it!
ReplyDeletei reckon in the run for box office hits.. plus the false illusion of a so called "hit formulae".. our directors tend to compromise on creativity... which kills the very soul of good cinema.
but catering to a wide variety of viewers is also something that calls for an opinion poll.. heres a call for one...
btw chaits nice post... now that u have LAN at ur disposal... we'll be looking fwd to ur movie reviews ;)
hey jaggu i agree wid u....paying so much 4 a bollywood movie is simply waste of money
ReplyDelete...none of us ever found even a single thing of our plan worth...but now u have really transformed our conceptions :P ;)
ReplyDeletenice post..Keep Bloggin! :)
isn't it strange that the best in words are born to the worst in experiences? We made the right choice with phoonk though!
ReplyDeletewell i do agree with u........but u see like every thing else movies too take time to evolve
ReplyDeleteand besides if it were not for the bad one we probably would not appreciate the good ones.