Food for Owls: The Big Bang- Discussion Thread - Page 6

Originally posted by: Boogle.Schiz

Melodrama works great for the mass, there are picky, joy-hating little cynics like me that don't 😆 There could have been much much simpler back-drops. Something even like a woman working on the sets getting pregnant with a baby girl...I wasn't expecting so much drama so it sort of hit me on the face.

I get what you mean. Even I skipped through some parts that I felt were a bit um..not my style lol.
But its a show about Bollywood. And is Bollywood if not melodramatic? Especially in the 90's.
No doubt it'll get more subtle and to our taste later on. This episode was like one of those long drawn out prologues that aired before the opening credits ran. Like "Karan Arjun" or earlier films. Half and hour into the film it would finally start😆😆. Thats what I took today's episode to be. The dramatic and fighter backstory of M's mother.

I'm twenty minutes into the show..

seriously speaking i was actually waiting for the show to start!!! was missing DD sooo much... yesterday's epi was superb!! rite from the beginnig it had an different aura...may it be the different openning like some movie namecasting or the psycho thakur and thakurain... loved that dai ma actually saved them...now eagerly waiting to see what awaits today...😊

Originally posted by: Boogle.Schiz

😆 One hit wonder! I'm very picky with my music, like I said there are very few BG scores I like.

I was searching for U in this thread haan ,der aaaye durst ayee atleast I can stalk some funny stuff in this thread & serious discussion as faree has named food for owls. abb to bolo faree what do u mean 😕 richa singing mere yaroo denvasion hum sab yahan happy to see U all here.🤗 waise NBT BG score really rocked especially ,I want a good one here too.

analysis ... Hmm ... Something am not good at ... Lolz
but first day first show, so i should give my views.
I read few analysis n few of them say that the drama was too much ... Yup, it was a little more ...but maybe coz the makers are saying its film you're watching like a daily soap ... Balraj... Creep ...eeks ... he did justice to his role ... I know animals like him do exist and act very much like he did, his mom...wah ...what a mother ... Women like her are there too ... Who support their sons in their bad deeds ... Infact they are the ones who provoke them more ...

The item dance ... Very much desi ... But not that vulgar as it is in reality ...
Real face of backward society with drama element.

Padmini (Pallavi) was good ... And Dai maa (sushmita mukherjee) wow lady, you did a great job. *claps*

Well this is not the show abt ... there'll be a leap, n then the real story starts.

BG ... I dont know anything abt it ... Rofl ... Sometimes it was irritating, but suits that jerk Balraj very much.

I would say it was good start.

Thanks for the pm Amruta ... Love you.

Hi Faria and Amru...

Faria!

I am so glad you opened a thread because like many on here, I was looking for a familiar ID and an open mind and here you are!

About the episode, I didn't really get into it. And you said you felt like stopping and reading the WU and well, confession: I did. Please don't use my head for target practice. 😕😆

I think a big part of the problem was that I was not able to watch it live because my grandmother is staying with us and she has her favourite regional show on at that time. I had to tune in through youtube and I just did not feel compelled to keep going and silently made the decision to read WUs and wait until DD's entry to start watching.

Also, the other issue I had was that it was an hour long. I think I would have preferred it just to be two episodes on successive days. It would have drawn me to the next episode, not knowing if she managed to escape or not.

That being said, there were things I liked a lot, concepts and ideas that they introduced. I thought it was really interesting that they started the story off in a feudal context and that that is where MB is from, but she will never really know it. I am interested to see how this background and this home which she escaped in her mother's womb will play a part in the shaping of her character. I am also interested to see the contrast between her and Trishna as a result of it...

I also liked all the references to the dramatic cliches of Bollywood being seamlessly incorporated, like a mother's love being somehow supernatural in its power, item songs and trains.

I agree that the performances I saw (in the first half that I watched) really gave that aura of darkness and despair that punctuated so many movies just before the sugar syrup era, starting with HAHK. But to be honest, my personal preference lies more in the direction of sugar syrup 90s than kitschy and violent 90s. 😆 So I will have to see how things progress as MB grows up...

Loved seeing it live upto the hype it had created. The opening credits was very good, DD sure got a lot of mileage from the opening credits...she really deserves it. The part where I had an issue was

1. The Jashan...It is always male dominated, none of the females are ever allowed to watch, so how come the MOM was there, that too egging her son along!!!!
2. The editing part during the chase...

Awww sucks, am willing to over look all the bloopers coz I am mighty pleased with the opening credit 😃

@Samana - :D Boy am I glad to see you here! One of the best analysers on board. I started this thread so more neutral viewers like you, me and many others aren't afraid of speaking up without getting bashed left and right.

@Austenrox- You managed to sum up all the characters in eloquent words - much better than myself 😆

@Annie- I sort of zoned out during the chase so I didn't notice the editing.

Thread two opened:

http://www.india-forums.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=3003936#58023092