Tuesday, February 24, 2009

oscars to slumdog millionare

slumdog received many oscars. This is a proud moment for the country with two indians receiving oscars. Rehman has composed many good music but undoubtably this is the great exposure he has got in the west. The first opportunity he has got and grabbed it in both hands. Today, there was even another news saying that the USA's president obama wanted to watch the movie slumdog. Now is that a proud moment for India.

Projecting some country as a poor nation is that good for the country. Most of the artists, actors etc involved in making the movie are from the same country yet, you project to the world only the bad things. Ofcourse, if you do this you get a lot of attention. But such an attention is only good for a short term, on a long run this will certainly have a bad affect.

However, I like the idea of Oscars where they give an award to a foreign movie. Many movies of different countries participate in that and try to win a award. In the entire process the country hosting it makes money and all you give is just an award / recognition. Thats how you attract business to a country. And our country like always falls for it and goes ga ga over it. This time only because its directed by a foreign director got many nomination in different categories and got many oscars. But is that really requried for us. Cant we concentrate on the Indian market. Why is it that filmfare never thought of introducing a foreign film category.

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Sunday, February 15, 2009

Ghajini

Ghajini - Aamir Khan has done a wonderful role in this. Getting into the gym and coming up with an 8 pack closely following his rival Shah rukh. Shah rukh's role actually didnt require him getting a 6 pack but aamir role in ghajini required the same it he looks really good with it.

The movie is a remake of a tamil movie. I had seen the same in Telugu. Even this one was good. But the one in Hindi is better. Ofcourse in tamil it was new movie and in hindi he just had to make a few modifications with a proven concept, so it was easier for him. Anyways, the change in climax i.e. removing the double role of the villan and changing the story to pure revenge is a good change.

The eye

One of the movies I watched recently. The Eye. I watched it specifically for jessica alba.

The movie isnt much intresting. I felt, it is a story that is streched too far. It is a story about a girl who has lost her sight in childhood due to an accident. She gets an eye replacement after a 15 years. Along with the eye she also gets the ability to see dead people.

The screenplay is quite good which allows to continue watchin it. Probably I watched it completly because of abla otherwise I would have stopped watching it mid-way. Anyway I wouldnt recommend anybody to watch it. Rest left to u ;)

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Slumdog Millionare

After much hype given to the movie with 10 oscars, I decided to watch slumdog. Almost everyone by now knows about the movie, story etc. the typical rags to riches story.

For a difference this movie although on India and many actors are from India still is made by a westerner who visualizes the county as a backward slum. This is how the westerners would like to see this country and would never believe if you were to say that the country is forward in many ways.

Anyway the point here is that the movie was made in such a way so as to please the western audience and hence it got so many awards. The fact it is only for western audience is evident by the fact that the movie in India was released after almost a month compared to the western countries. The producers had expected that the movie wont be taken well inside this country and purposely avoided releasing it here earlier.

If anyone in India were to produce a movie and show that the western countries are backward then it would be taken very well and would win many awards as well... ;)

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