Is Pushpa 2 a family friendly Movie?? - Page 3

First version was cringey enough for me even on OTT. Not going to watch the second one. But came across quite a few women friends who enjoyed the movie. Apparently if was vibrant and entertaining for them. I found the first part demeaning to women but they say women r shown to be powerful in the movie 🙄.

Finally at the end they were like its ok ..u may not like it. Its our telugu kind of movie 😯

I said I loved RRR. Problem isn’t with the language or culture..story isn’t right. Period.

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Originally posted by: LizzieBennet

Well, yes, I do agree that movies should showcase reality if that’s what they’re aiming to do and not merely serve as escapism but there’s realistic level in aggressiveness and violence and death and then there’s the gratuitous level for them all. How much is enough, and what tips the scale over to being too much? It can be different for each one of us, but there needs to be some lines drawn. It’s the age-old chicken and egg allegory when it comes to Art imitates Life or Life imitates Art - I suspect both are true.

Three points to consider when reflecting about violence in movies, imo:

1) Is the way violence is shown necessary for the story which is the base of the movie? (What I read here about some scenes, it's a clear NO.)

2) For which age the way violence shown in the movie is understandable being a faked/reel thing and not a real one? (Rating categories have a meaning and if a censorboard doesn't respect this meaning then it is either corruptible, incompetent or powerless...Pushpa 2 seemingly should have had an "A" rating but I wouldn't be surprised when it got an "UA" one because of corruption and/or orders from 'above'.)

3) Is the way violence is shown a tool in advertising the movie, to attract audience? (the extreme display of blood, the way the protagonist(s) are shown on posters, in trailers and teasers, e.g., how some key points of the movie are written in media/sm comments, etc.)

It seems to me that (not only) Indian Cinema contributes more and more to the coarsening of youth, society and culture which leads to a barbarization... both are difficile to counter with even good education and more positive storytelling in movies. The argument of "entertainment" through a gore-like display of violence is, imo, somewhat questionable.

Originally posted by: Life_Is_Dutiful

When I read the description of the scenes in the movie, the first thing that came into my mind was why did that unfortunate family wanted to show this kind of movie to their two little kids. This movie is too violent for the kids to watch....

Only quoting this part because it had been exactly the same to me (your take about the censorboard I used in another comment)...in addition to the nature of the movie, the not respecting the police's advice by the responsible persons and the reason given to hike the prices, this movie (Pushpa 2) has become a sham and a shame in my thinking. (I also think that about the boxoffice numbers.)

Yes, Pushpa 2 is a children’s film. Because I refuse to believe anyone over the age of 12 can like this garbage.

Originally posted by: Kyahikahoon

First version was cringey enough for me even on OTT. Not going to watch the second one. But came across quite a few women friends who enjoyed the movie. Apparently if was vibrant and entertaining for them. I found the first part demeaning to women but they say women r shown to be powerful in the movie 🙄.

Finally at the end they were like its ok ..u may not like it. Its our telugu kind of movie 😯

I said I loved RRR. Problem isn’t with the language or culture..story isn’t right. Period.

The whole movie is garbage. Didn't understand the hype around the first movie either.

If the movie is "garbage" then why could it have - according to Sacnilk (incl. Tuesday) - an India Gross Collection of ₹ 1443.5 Cr which gives a total India Net Collection of ₹ 1210.85 Cr [Telugu: 335.94 Cr + Hindi: 794.7 Cr + Tamil: 58.31 Cr + Kannada: 7.75 Cr + Malayalam: 14.15 Cr]

A movie whose occupancy rate hovers at 30-40 percent throughout cannot be deemed as Box Office hit irrespective of the amount it earns, if it actually does earn that kind of money,the reason for this collection might be the large number of screens and shows on those screens these movies are released in, effectively making sure other movies don't get a release. This is true not only for Pushpa 2 but also for a majority of these "low occupancy" BO hits of the last few years.

Haven't watched, Animal, GoT, Pushpa. Pushpa 2 or most of the movies that belong to this genre.

It is a chhapri movie for chhapri audience