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When I think of filmmakers like Ray and Hrishikesh mukherjee I do not see bollywood inferior to Hollywood.Keep aside the financial and technical aspects, both have made crappy and fantastic films. If only, cinema in India comes together as "Indian Cinema" rather than Bollywood by including the regional language films as well, We can certainly boast of many quality films. But the regional movies do not get the kind of exposure they deserve.Maybe due to language constraints? Maybe subs/dubbing can overcome the barrier?
I see the audience more at fault for the given state of BW than Makers.Indian audience are not open to experimentation. They lap up anything trite with horrifying ease. Filmmakers were scared to experiment because of this and rightly so. Now it has come to a point of making films blindly with whatever the genre the audience is showing inclination to.It surprises me why only one genre fetches maximum box-office returns at any point in BW. If it was romance,family drama before, it is action and comedy now.With very few exceptions.
Anyways, the onething I consider Bollywood superior in is it's song and dance. Some of the songs and lyrics that came out are pure gems. The depth and beauty of certain words and wordings is absolutely divine. I do not find that kind of depth in the English ones.Not even their musicals.Some of them are brilliant no doubt but they are no match to some of the wonderful works of Bollywood/regional films.
As for dancing, at one point of time bollywood was MORE than pelvic thrusting and the same boring moves we see now-a-days. There was a mix of Indian folk and classical dances which were absolute treat. I'm not a fan of aerobics and gymnastics in the name of dancing! Watch Navrang and you'll know what I mean.But with the heavy aping of foreign films BW has lost something which it was so good at. sad!
I see the audience more at fault for the given state of BW than Makers.Indian audience are not open to experimentation. They lap up anything trite with horrifying ease. Filmmakers were scared to experiment because of this and rightly so. Now it has come to a point of making films blindly with whatever the genre the audience is showing inclination to.It surprises me why only one genre fetches maximum box-office returns at any point in BW. If it was romance,family drama before, it is action and comedy now.With very few exceptions.
Anyways, the onething I consider Bollywood superior in is it's song and dance. Some of the songs and lyrics that came out are pure gems. The depth and beauty of certain words and wordings is absolutely divine. I do not find that kind of depth in the English ones.Not even their musicals.Some of them are brilliant no doubt but they are no match to some of the wonderful works of Bollywood/regional films.
As for dancing, at one point of time bollywood was MORE than pelvic thrusting and the same boring moves we see now-a-days. There was a mix of Indian folk and classical dances which were absolute treat. I'm not a fan of aerobics and gymnastics in the name of dancing! Watch Navrang and you'll know what I mean.But with the heavy aping of foreign films BW has lost something which it was so good at. sad!
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