Originally posted by: briahna
dex, but why only these 3 movies. aren't majority movies hyped? ok, heroine and jthj hyped fine. but mausam wasn't as much hyped as these two. where did mausam come from?
how about agent vinod, ek tha tiger, rowdy rathore, agneepath, cocktail, SOTY...all of them were HYPED. weren't they all vigorously promoted all over?
and did these movies really live up ...i am talking about the quality wise?
Agent Vinod, Ek tha Tiger, Rowdy Rathore, Agneepath, Cocktail and SOTY WERE NOT marketed as THE epic love sagas in decades! Mausam and JTHJ were. That IS the difference.
I was on this forum around the time Mausam released. All the articles that came out daily before it released talked about how Mausam is some epic love saga. All of this made people assume that it was Casablanca, Titanic et.al and not some lame romance.
Same with JTHJ. The first promo itself was very highly pretentious. It had clips from all of YC's epic romances Lamhe, Chandni, Silsila etc. Lamhe, Silsila are still remembered to this day because they were different for their times and hence the epic love saga tag can be attached to them. But the same cannot be said for JTHJ. It hasn't wowed critics yet...not when I made this topic anyway. So my point is why raise people's expectations for your film so high when you know its no epic shit?
Let me reiterate again,
Agent Vinod, Ek tha Tiger, Rowdy Rathore, Agneepath, Cocktail and SOTY
WERE NOT marketed as epic love sagas! Only Mausam and JTHJ have been in RECENT times.
As for Heroine, that was placed along with Mausam and JTHJin my OP because it fulfills the category of raising expectations and falling flat.
Hope that clears your misconceptions.
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