Monday, September 7, 2009

Cinema-India's Curse

Hi!Keeping up my promise after a break :-)
Warning!
Cine Lovers! u may get angry with my post so better skip this post ;-) to avoid BP shoot ups and emotional outbursts :-)))
In the title,I ve specified India because no other country has seen abhishekams with milk,honey etc on a lifeless mammoth cutout of a cine star on the eve of the release;-))) of a film.
(sorry!Rajinikanth fans! even I love Rajini movies a lot and I love to whistle on super stunt sequences of Rajini but I cannot imagine myself pouring milk over his huge cutout when hundreds of kids die of malnutrion in India everyday)
Iam not blaming Rajinikanth,each and every budding and chitput actor wants a cutout ,serial lights etc in South India.They love to call themselves as Future CM even before the release of their first film;-) I wonder who pays for such stupid banners and other useless decorations.
Thank God!Bollywood is spared in this abhishekam issue,but bollywood has a different problem altogether.Many bollywood producers love to produce for NRIs or rich Indians who are fed with golden spoons,but sadly their impractical designer costumes and richness in the movies don't gel with India's true real self.
One funny thing about Indian cinema is,on one hand films are extremely real aiming for an oscar(because highlighting India's poverty,slum issues,beggars can lead the film to a cannes festival or can win an oscar if poverty and lawlessness is shown in maximum possible heights,because foreigners love to see such Indian movies ;-))) and on other hand they are highly impractical & rich where even a servant maid dons a rich costume;-)) in the movie.But heroine is always poor in one aspect,her costumes;-))) and producer tries to save money as much as possible and she is allowed to wear only 1/2 metre of cloth in total;-))))
There is a limit to show real issues in a film,I was shocked to see 'Paruthi veeran' in Tamil which was so violent ,I had to switch off with disgust,believe me!it was a super hit film there in TN.Or I could'nt imagine wasting money on a Hindi 'Dostana' which throws light on gays ,I still wonder why KJ wanted to take this movie which tries to educate indian mass on unnecessary things when India is unable to cope up with outburst of AIDS,knowing that Indian public blindly follows their films and try to implement all things in their life.
For eg.,after the release of 'Hum Aapke he kaun' ,Indian marriage expenses have shot up and are still in the upward spiral and organising a marriage has become a big show business.Designer costumes and Jewels have burnt the pockets of middleclass families which tries to ape rich class by all ways.
Gone are the days of a normal middle class comedy with ordinary costumes and sets. Even today I can happily watch the simple Amol palekar in 'Golmaal' or heartily laugh at 'Bhama Vijayam'(I think in Hindi it is Teen deviyaan or something like that) dialogues.But wonder whether such films will be taken in future.In hindi Priyadarshan movies are based on middle class issues,but Iam planning to watch his original movie only ;-))) because all his movies are remade from South Films.
I am not planning to end up this post with lots of pessimism,I would like to give a huge Thumbs Up to Indian regional cinema(all languages except Hindi) which has experimented with normal themes and different plots.
Hope that Indian film Industry wakes up to show the real, real India.Cu in next post..

19 comments:

Sreenivasan Narayanan said...

Good one padma...

Padma said...

Hi!Thank u sreeni for reading my blog and for ur comment.

Nandakumar said...

Hi Padma - U r one of the many who grudge about Indian cinema.Once in a while we get good films.But people make similar films after its success and again a new formula or trend is set.In this case holltwood is also not exception.They also take movies like Ramanarayanan - but with big budgets.
Technically and acting wise cinema has improved a lot.No more over acting.But, the directors have to rely more on story rather than star value.
Of late in Tamil small budget films are clicking and star actors films are biting the dust and stars are scared now.
A good trend.by the by the milk abisekams are funded by stars and let their money come out like this.

Padma said...

hi kumar chittappa!thank u for ur comments.i accept that small budget movies are really nice.but majority of films are based on some stupid formula and it highly irritates me..:-)))

Raja said...

Padma..I understand your frustration..Here is my opinion about indian movies..
Indian movies target mostly the C class audience who are interested in just the commercial aspects of the movie..songs, fights, and dance..They don't expect anything more from it..Only a very few movies are made for the elite audience expecting something different in each movie. As far as cut out abhishekams, actors spend a lot of money to boost their self image..
However, on another note..I liked movies like Pasanga(recently released Tamil movie)..plain simple story with great delivery..Not sure if that movie was a commercial hit though..

Padma said...

Raja!thank u for ur comments.sometimes I also like to become a C class viewer bcos even i like songs,dance & fight sequences...but i feel that there is a limit for everything.whether it is a reality cinema or commercial masala one..even i heard abt the film 'pasanga' ...but couldn't watch it..ok when is ur next blog?

Nandakumar said...

pasanga did fairly well in the collection also.Similarly nadodigal and vennila kabadi kulu also did well.

Anonymous said...

padma u have turend ur guns against cinema from cricket.for average indian cinema,politicsand cricket are basic needs,for entartinement.u have written blogs on all.pl create a blog on swineflu. ramu

Padma said...

hi apps!we r running away from swine flu...so writing a blog on swine flu....let me try...;-)))

Padma said...

kumar chittapp!i havent seen nadodigal but i saw vennila kabaddi kuzhu...i liked all kabaddi sequences etc..but i didn't like the end.they shouldnt have ended in such a tragic way...
one more thing which i hate in tamil films is the details they show abt the dead body and cremation procedure etc..even though it is all reality...i feel there should be a fullstop somewhere so that they r not disgusting...it started with maniratnam's "nayagan" and it has become a bad trend.. i couldnt watch "pithamagan' also for the same reason...ok keep reading my blogs......

KRISH said...

padma

cini field has intelligent guys and also fools, sometimes they take a movie to their taste and with more projections (kandasamy) but it doesn't clicks but to set off the loss they will take a low budget film it will click. so it is a mayakannadi. but nowadays hero worship is slowly reducing and anybody can be a hero, the trend is changing but certain movies are touching with good message. eg. abiyum nanum. so select the movie and forget what is happening behind .

Sharmila said...

Hi Padma,
Why the loooong silence?
Were you on vacation ?
It was good to see a new post.
BTW, the forward about leave letters was hilarious!
Keep Blogging...

Padma said...

hi SVK!atlast recd ur comments :-)))... anybody can bcom a hero in TN is really true and that irritates me a lot.atleast some standards should be maintained..ok keep reading my blog..

Padma said...

hi shammi tai!thank u for ur comments..I am ready to write frequently but readers are not ready to read ;-))))
leave letter was forwarded by ravi to me and i knew u would luv it :-)))

Prasanna said...

There are always scope for Class movies...Indian films are more Mass movies ... Class endures, but Mass ensures (collections) .... kilambittangayya kilambittanga...

Padma said...

Thank u prasanna for ur comment with rhyming words:))

Anonymous said...

Hey Padma,
Love your blog...Keep up the good work....

Shuba (Guess who??)

Padma said...

hi shubha!Thank u for ur kind comments..keep reading my blog! still guessing..:)

Anonymous said...

Still guessing...ask Raja for clues...
Shuba