Somebody missing Preitty and Rani movies - Page 5

I still do not miss Rani or Preity though it's fun to read up on different perspectives regarding films in general...films from a decade back.

Just a random thought:

So, today, on Zee TV (?) or Sony (?), Hum Saath Saath Hai was playing -- I was cringing because there was a song every five minutes and I am not exaggerating. Anyhow, my mother shed tears at the part when Vivek (the elder, obedient, sacrificing son) left his house for the sake of his mum's happiness....then she shed tears again when Vivek magically removes his paralyzed, right hand from his trousers' pocket and places it on his younger brother's hands for assurance. *sniffs*

Last weekend, she couldn't stay awake even for five minutes for Kaminey.

The power of melodramatic, fluffy musicals I tell ya. We can play K3G at our house every day and everyone one would still sit on the sofa biting their nails toward the end wondering if the family would accept the adopted son...but there's no room for films like Kaminey and Maqbool.

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It's tuff to alter perceptions, especially when one has been surrounded with melodramatic, emotionally charged up, and manipulative cinema.

I love dramatic and theatrical stuff so I heart 90s, its one of my fav eras in movies. I would say 90s was a performance oriented era with very less or no gimickry involved, all the movies depended on the sole theatrics of actors. Some of my fav people from 90s are nana patekar, manisha koirala, tabu, urmila, sunny deol, juhi chawla, aamir, srk..... sri devi..(priety.and rani from late 90s and 2000s) Movies like Krantiveer, hu tu tu, border, andaaz , dil se, damini...sangharsh... The acting in these movie was sooooo freakin aweosme.. that for me nothing can match.. that in 2000s.. absolutely nothing.. ... People really really gave a lot to their performances.. be it Manisha.. in 1942 a love story.. or bombay.. be it urmila in rangeela.. be it sri devi in chaalbaaz.. For me nothing these days matches to these movies.. and throw in comedy with govinda, kadar khan, juhi,... darr..raju ban gaya gentleman.. gosh i can go on an on.. Bottom line.. i disagree that actresses are better of these days.. i think 90s was the ultimate performance oriented era.. and we just don't have juhis, madhuris, sri devi.. forget about manisha.. these chicks rocked.. loved them in raw performance oriented movies.. and even the masala of 90s was spicier and more entertaining to me.

Originally posted by: smarie pants

^^oh a side note: kader khan and govinda comedies!🤣...omigosh i lovveed them...and karishma too in hero no.1 and biwi no.1....but my absolute fav from the 90's are anil kapoor and sunny deol!!! Ram lakhan, damini, nayak, gadar, calcutta mail...these were MOVIES man!! especially gadar...wherein sunny deol beats up the villain gang by uprooting a hand-pump! 🤪...i can seeti maro soo freely at such moments!!!

Originally posted by: mademoiselle1

Well the emo manipulation and sterotyping of actresses as dimwits still happen in 2010.. tehre are movies even now in which actresses just stand next to actors looking pretty.. like Ash in robot.. Katrina in many Akshay kumar movies.. Sonakshi very much so in Dabangg.. this is one sterotype which cannot just be attributed to 90s.. its still present.