I guess this started from the movie Raja Harishchandra in late 1913 and today we stand as the largest producer of Movies in the World. Though I am not a Movie Freak as I have hardly been in a theatre but I guess the answer why I don’t go lies in my first line above. Out of 1000 movie made in this country annually hardly any movie has any sense. The Percentage of fruitful & practical movie in India is just 1% according to me. Every Director and Actor comes out saying that his movie is Different and has everything that audience will like, it’s very close to reality and at the end it turns out to be at the very same concept of 2 boys loving the same girl or some twist to the same idea, with some different place where the film is shot and equipped with some nice stunts. This is the only concept I think that 90 % of Indian Directors are revolving their story around for last 2 decades. Apart from these there are some of Kings in the Industry who I believe are just Over Rated Actors. Their main tool is either Showoff of some prop or Style of Clothing. The Basic Sense of Acting is absolutely missing in many. (I am sorry for being so critical but I am being very frank, the whole credibility in Indian Cinema is missing and Apart from infusing Millions of Rupees and Star Dust, there is nothing in most of the movies) Some of the Movies are just blindly copied from some foreign hit and is represented in Indian style. I don't realize with so many topics untouched, why a sensible Director needs to copy someone.
In a country like India which has got a Strong Literature and The long Proof of History, I believe we can Direct Completely Original Scripts and can make the Finest Movies in the World but unfortunately apart from handful of Talented Directors no one is bothered to make sense at the Big Screen. Amir Khan who always comes with a bang is one of those Actors who has kept some standard and limits atleast he has a very good sense of Acting. Few Actors like Naseeruddin Shah, Asrani, Anupam Kher, Kadar Khan, Nana Patekar, Anil Kapoor, Om and Amrish Puri, Kamal Hasan, Rekha, Simi Garewal, Rani Mukherjee, Tabbu, are few of the names who have shown their versatile acting from Theatre Shows to Cinemas. It is very unfortunate that after Mother India we haven’t produced anything to get just nominations at Oscars till Salam Bombay and Lagan. The Movie that Won Oscars for India was nowhere near the Actual India. I still have no idea about which India Mr. Dany Boyle wanted to portray and comparing it with Lagaan I feel that Poltitics and Discrimination again played a leading role at supposed to be one the Most Fair and Reputed Awards. Apart from Rehmann, for me, this movie was just mediocre.
People really fascinate with Hollywood make movies like Lord of Rings, 300 etc but I guess our Mahabharata is “BAAP of all these Movies”. We just need someone with Guts and Talent to make this for Big Screen. Many Directors by now have tried their hands and failed miserably apart from Legendary B.R.Chopra who is our only success till date.
People ask me why I don’t see movies much. Most Movies can so easily be anticipated and guessed to perfection that there is no interest left whatsoever to waste money on them. The mere concept of every movie is the very same. The few recent movies like A Wednesday, Ghajini, Mumbai Meri Jaan, Nayak, Pukar, Rang De Basanti, Tare Zameen Par, RHTDM & few more made some practical sense to me.
Though I have many more things to say about this topic but I would conclude by saying let the difference be maintained between us and any other Tom Dick and Harry or we will loose all our Creamy Artists if we continue to work in this fashion. Many have already left the Industry and many more are on the way & we will be just left with all over rated actors with complete meaningless and uninteresting stuffs on the big screen.
And please People there is NO BOLLYWOOD IT IS INDIAN CINEMA …….
PS: The above Blog may offend many but I would appreciate if it is not taken personally as I have a bad habit of writing frankly. These are just a part of my Thoughts and are not at all aimed at anyone.
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Mukul Gupta
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