Originally posted by: Charming_Prince
Then why dont they watch gud movies like Udaan, Guzarish, Stanley Ka Dabba? Why r serious/good movies thumbed down?
i dont think so. Its not like I hate entertaining movies. I love them too. I LOVED 3 Idiots. But shit like bodyguard, ready, golmaal is NOT entertaining. But still ppl are encouraging it = they r being entertained by this shit. U say every1 criticizes those films after watching it. OK, a sane person who watched ready and finds it shitty will NEVER watch a movie like that again. Then why did every1 turn up again for Bodyguard? I mean it was not path breaking or anything that they hoped it will be any better than Ready?
I repeat, Bollywood can attempt a medical thriller. But to be successful you have to put silly fighting scenes, songs, dance, blah blah blah and make it a potboiler to make it a hit
But Udaan, Guzarish AND Stanley ka dabba all did get a lot of exposure. None of them were considered 'bad movies'. 10 years ago none of those movies would have even been released. Do you understand my point?
I thought bodygaurd was shitty too, but i think you disregard the fact that more than 50% of indians are not slick citygoing kids who want to see a film like say 'shaitan' or even 3 idiots. They are workers, people in poverty, people in rural areas, people just trying to get by.
You can't just shit on an entire country because not everyone understands that READY isn't great. Maybe you and i get it, but its because were looking for different things in cinema.
Look at the audience and look at WHY this is happening. You think someone who drives an autorickshaw all day wants to come home and watch a psychologically moving masterpiece or do yout hink they want to see a fun movie where salman khan dances around and sings and acts stereotypical.
Of course they would pick the later. Of course they would pick escapism. And theres nothing wrong with that. The change will come not from the industry, and not from the types of movies we make, but from the people. The better our country gets economically, the better we get at 'sealing' the gaps and our rich poor divide, then naturally our films will reflect such a change and also give the people what they want.
I understand your point, but i don't tihnk you are taking a lot of things into consideration. Its not just bollywoods fault that a lot of what it produces is dumb and overdone, a lot of time an industry reflects what their audience wants. More people now want quality, there are still many who just want a simple masala film to escape the constraints of reality. I wouldn't take that away from them. even if i think those films are by and large terrible these days.
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