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Posted: 8 years ago

#11

Originally posted by: gilmores

BW needs to read more -- I get that and it makes sense, but then I also see voracious readers not having a clue what's good and not *cough* SRK *cough* ... or perhaps they do know and are limited by what they believe they should do rather than what they want to do. It also depends on what is being read. 😆

I think the big issue is that what is good for one person may not be considered good by the audience. SRK is quite different from the average audience watching BW films based on his elite education, money, and westernized bent of mind. What he likes implicitly probably won't be liked by a lower-class guy from Indore who works all day.

The problems happen because regardless of what you like or not, you have to please that average audience which is very hard if you don't think in the same manner as them. All these movie star kids going off to boarding schools in London are going to face the same issue but probably on an even bigger scale.

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Posted: 8 years ago

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Originally posted by: anonymous39

I think the big issue is that what is good for one person may not be considered good by the audience. SRK is quite different from the average audience watching BW films based on his elite education, money, and westernized bent of mind. What he likes implicitly probably won't be liked by a lower-class guy from Indore who works all day.

The problems happen because regardless of what you like or not, you have to please that average audience which is very hard if you don't think in the same manner as them. All these movie star kids going off to boarding schools in London are going to face the same issue but probably on an even bigger scale.

@Bold: You probably didn't mean it to come across that way, but that sounds really patronizing. And as far as recent SRK movies are concerned, I don't see what movies he has done recently that needs high intellect to be understood, if people can see and appreciate Aamir movies that explore variety of topics and are out of the box at times, then they can also appreciate SRK movies. SRK's problem is that his main strength has been romance, he hasn't been as successful in other genres though swedes was an exception and a great movie. What he needs to do now is just plain pick better scripts! Doesn't matter if it's romance or not, as long as it's a good film with substance, people will come and watch. and It's high time Bollywood stops blaming the audiences for not understanding their content and focuses on trying to understand where they are going wrong content wise. Because today's Indian audience is so diverse that they easily watch Hollywood movies, as easily as they watch masala movies, so their collective intellect is not the problem in question here.

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Posted: 8 years ago

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^No no, I didn't mean that he's doing intellectual movies. 😆 I meant that he picks movies he thinks the audience will like even though he doesn't like them himself - Dilwale, Happy New Year type of stuff. There was an interview where he was asked why he's doing such movies and he couldn't answer.

He doesn't have a great connect to the audience, IMO. Aamir does - he knows what subjects they will like - universal stuff like the education system or whatever though I don't think Aamir's movies are intellectual either. Salman has that tapori bent of mind and he's good at choosing the right masala movies. Even as a masala movie, Dilwale wasn't good and I doubt SRK thought it was good either.

SRK is like Saif - he doesn't even watch Hindi movies though he's not stupid enough to say it like that. If you watch his interviews, he watches HW, French, German, etc. movies. That's why his family has apparently ordered him to watch a Hindi movie every week if he wants to continue acting. 😆

But I do think all these foreign educated kids, living in their ivory towers, will have a really hard time connecting to the general audience and catering to them because the mindset itself is so different. It's bound to create a disconnect.

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Posted: 8 years ago

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Originally posted by: anonymous39
^No no, I didn't mean that he's doing intellectual movies. 😆 I meant that he picks movies he thinks the audience will like even though he doesn't like them himself - Dilwale, Happy New Year type of stuff. There was an interview where he was asked why he's doing such movies and he couldn't answer.

He doesn't have a great connect to the audience, IMO. Aamir does - he knows what subjects they will like - universal stuff like the education system or whatever though I don't think Aamir's movies are intellectual either. Salman has that tapori bent of mind and he's good at choosing the right masala movies. Even as a masala movie, Dilwale wasn't good and I doubt SRK thought it was good either.

SRK is like Saif - he doesn't even watch Hindi movies though he's not stupid enough to say it like that. If you watch his interviews, he watches HW, French, German, etc. movies. That's why his family has apparently ordered him to watch a Hindi movie every week if he wants to continue acting. 😆

But I do think all these foreign educated kids, living in their ivory towers, will have a really hard time connecting to the general audience and catering to them because the mindset itself is so different. It's bound to create a disconnect.

Thank you for clarifying. That explains his choices like happy new year and dilwale, I need to watch more of his interviews to understand his decisions it seems. And no, I don't think Aamir makes "intellectual" movies either, it's just that he offers the most mental stretch of the brain muscle through his diverse pick of topics. 😆

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Posted: 8 years ago

#15

Originally posted by: ImagineMe

Writers drag Filmfare Awards for their CONSISTENT shenanigans👏

Start from @31 mins

"They don't even invite the writing nominees" ...🥳 2015/2016 awards

Even this year all technical awards were handed out when the "celebrities" hadn't even shown-up on the red carpet.😵

disrespectful.

Considering without these technicians these films would not see the light of day.

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Originally posted by: anonymous39

I think the big issue is that what is good for one person may not be considered good by the audience. SRK is quite different from the average audience watching BW films based on his elite education, money, and westernized bent of mind. What he likes implicitly probably won't be liked by a lower-class guy from Indore who works all day.

The problems happen because regardless of what you like or not, you have to please that average audience which is very hard if you don't think in the same manner as them. All these movie star kids going off to boarding schools in London are going to face the same issue but probably on an even bigger scale.

elite education 😛🤣