U have any interest left watching award functions? - Page 3

Originally posted by: Skepblun

Corporatisation of Bollywood robbed it of its creativity. I even dislike entry of plastic supermodels and beauty/manhunt pageant winners in films. They're just lookers and make headlines by flaunting their face/bodies but can't act to save their lives!

Quality had begun to degrade from 80s only. Couple of good films were made in 90s. But 2000 onwards, good films can be counted on fingertips.

Iqbal, Munnabhai series, Lagaan, RDB, Omkara, Black, TZP, 3I, OMG, Kahani, Swades etc. are good films. But far and few in between.

Standard of commercial films in general has fallen. I remember Govinda-David Dhawan films were looked down upon (in terms of quality) earlier. But looking at so called entertainers now, those David Dhawan films look like classics!

I blame the stars also. An Aamir Khan did Lagaan or RDB but he's the same guy who did Ghajini and flagged off trend of OTT masala films sold to galleries with maddening marketing. Ajay Devgan was doing good work in movies like Legend of Bhagat Singh, Company, Omkara but ruined it when he got in masala mode.

SRK's OSO was also no great shakes as a film but he marketed it like crazy and then put full page ads in all papers calling it a record breaking hit.

These box office battles, race for record openings just ruined everything.

I don't remember business or verdicts of movies discussed so vociferously in 90s or even in 2000s. This started mainly around 2007 or 2008.

Even BO of films is deserving or not is questionable. They fool public with lot of hype, star cast/special appearances/item songs, give movie the widest release and take some festive weekend to release film. Ticket prices are the highest possible. I myself get surprised how some movies which I saw in half empty halls in their first week are called hits or even "semi hits". As audience we're only being fooled. By the time audience realises film is crap, it's been declared blockbuster everywhere!

They make case for masala. The action/masala films of 70s and early 80s and even 90s were much better than masala movies now. I'd anyday take a Mohra over a Rowdy Rathore!

Audience is also to blame. We throng to watch a film based on hype. Everyone knows a Krissh or Dhoom 3 have nothing to offer in content. Yet they'll go to watch them. Ra One might not have been huge but people did watch it and it's in 100 crore club!

Stars controlling media is another issue. They'll try their best to hype a film and even more to defend it and call it a success.

The stars are also on their last legs as leading heroes so try to get hits and prove their supremacy in remaining years.

Award shows looked crap from 2003 only. Biases were always there but entertainment value was also lost as gags became cheap. Shows should be such which you can watch with whole family. Plus there are far too many shows nowadays and even these are telecast many times around the year so there's no curiosity to watch them. There's no exclusivity or novelty. In past you'd know that stars would be seen together at just one or two shows in a year so you'd throng to watch the shows. But now we know they'll dance to same songs at some cricket and music award also so it makes no difference if we happen to miss some show.

I think there's no objectivity in trade analysis of films, no awareness in audience (they believe hype blindly), no regulation in media and industry is currently in state of flux as established stars/filmmakers are ageing and new talent is slowly emerging. This transitional stage mostly results in worst of cinema as it happened in 80s. The ageing stars dominate the film and showcase themselves, they are the ones who encourage plastic actresses just to add face value in films and take least risk possible, cater to lowest common denominator to maintain status quo.

I hope crap films get kicked out the way they were in late 80s. Sadly audience is only too happy to be fooled by botoxed 50 year old men playing college kids/heroic policemen/lover boys!