After my PC demised blogging is not that easy for me. Its more complicated than heliography. Its more tedious than sex chatting with a 60 year old bengali school teacher who comes online just to exchange educational links in gtalk. Blogging had to stay separated from me for some time.
Recently a facebook debate instigated me to write some instant reviews or note or whatever you say on a particular brand- yes a 150 crores corporate brand delivered in Indian Film Industry. The brand has been collaborated with several other brands for mutual benefits and India's biggest 'Baniya' Entertainer is campaigning for it. Indeed the brand is going to shine.
But the problem arises when a few people regard the brand as something called pure art or cinema or great entertainer.I mean come on, few people cannot manufacture our consent. isn't it? Of course I may sound contradictory. Then why may I being so critical abour Raa.one? I actually have some serious reservations against these films which are great brands because of extensive and integrated marketing but actually lack a good script, good acting, good celluloid presentation. I am sorry but I have problem.
Cinema was never a business....thanx to Lumiere brothers it first become a mode of money making.....they used to show film reels around the world in exchange of money...it was in late 18th century....although Lumiers are regarded as the fore father of World Cinema. Then came the age of hollywood studios.The cinema changed into film. actors were no longer artists, they became paid employees of the producer. Charlie Chaplin challenged the system,he showed the world that a good cinema can also be a profitable product.(USA tainted him as a socialist spy). There is no denying the fact that recovering money is neccesary for any project but that doesnt mean that u can sale any shit and call it entertainment....
What srk is doing is sheer insult to world cinema.....today if rahul gandhi makes a trash and market it well, it will also be a superhit opener(a film from gandhi family,produced by manmohan singh,distributed by all india congress) but the merit is only determined after the first week. and those who are saying that srk is a big entertainer,im sorry to say,he is not. if i want to get entertained, i will watch rajni's robot. good movie and hit movie are never synonymous. a lot of things are happening around the world with the medium called cinema....
I am not against avatar or harry potter or not even titanic but cant take raa.one....boss if u can arrange a good script, half the work can be done......
aamir steals script, insult directors,degrade writers,ghost direct films but at the end of the day he delivers a good script! anurag kashyap can never be an srk but at the end of the day, dev.d and no smoking will always be remembered as a milestone in alternative cinema. i am not even talking of majid majidi ,jafar panahi (who is still in jail just to make films against the government of iran)
When lagan was nominated and it didnt won the oscar,yes i was angry..i hated no man's land like anything bt when i saw the film, i tried to control my feelings and started agreeing the very fact that it was better.....there are still a few people left in this world, who fight for good cinema and not only for khans!
Recently a facebook debate instigated me to write some instant reviews or note or whatever you say on a particular brand- yes a 150 crores corporate brand delivered in Indian Film Industry. The brand has been collaborated with several other brands for mutual benefits and India's biggest 'Baniya' Entertainer is campaigning for it. Indeed the brand is going to shine.
But the problem arises when a few people regard the brand as something called pure art or cinema or great entertainer.I mean come on, few people cannot manufacture our consent. isn't it? Of course I may sound contradictory. Then why may I being so critical abour Raa.one? I actually have some serious reservations against these films which are great brands because of extensive and integrated marketing but actually lack a good script, good acting, good celluloid presentation. I am sorry but I have problem.
Cinema was never a business....thanx to Lumiere brothers it first become a mode of money making.....they used to show film reels around the world in exchange of money...it was in late 18th century....although Lumiers are regarded as the fore father of World Cinema. Then came the age of hollywood studios.The cinema changed into film. actors were no longer artists, they became paid employees of the producer. Charlie Chaplin challenged the system,he showed the world that a good cinema can also be a profitable product.(USA tainted him as a socialist spy). There is no denying the fact that recovering money is neccesary for any project but that doesnt mean that u can sale any shit and call it entertainment....
What srk is doing is sheer insult to world cinema.....today if rahul gandhi makes a trash and market it well, it will also be a superhit opener(a film from gandhi family,produced by manmohan singh,distributed by all india congress) but the merit is only determined after the first week. and those who are saying that srk is a big entertainer,im sorry to say,he is not. if i want to get entertained, i will watch rajni's robot. good movie and hit movie are never synonymous. a lot of things are happening around the world with the medium called cinema....
I am not against avatar or harry potter or not even titanic but cant take raa.one....boss if u can arrange a good script, half the work can be done......
aamir steals script, insult directors,degrade writers,ghost direct films but at the end of the day he delivers a good script! anurag kashyap can never be an srk but at the end of the day, dev.d and no smoking will always be remembered as a milestone in alternative cinema. i am not even talking of majid majidi ,jafar panahi (who is still in jail just to make films against the government of iran)
When lagan was nominated and it didnt won the oscar,yes i was angry..i hated no man's land like anything bt when i saw the film, i tried to control my feelings and started agreeing the very fact that it was better.....there are still a few people left in this world, who fight for good cinema and not only for khans!
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