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Mayuri Majumdar

Mayuri Majumdar — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

I felt that your approach to the whole article was a prejudiced one. Correct me or pardon me if it wasn’t so. I am not a Bollywood buff. I love watching movies, be it foreign films or hindi flicks. And yes, Taare zameen par was a good movie and I do hold up Aamir Khan in good views for treating a common theme of dyslexia so uncommonly.

Somya

Somya — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

The issue of plagiarism does hunt down Indian cinema more often than not but I love that they give an original version to some stories. I agree that Partener is a shot-to-shot copy and so is Humraz of the perfect murder, Murder is a copy of unfaithful anf the list just goes on.. but some movied like TZP can be saved from the verbal thrashing simply because it addressed such a burning issue in our country where everyone wants a numero uno instead of a kid and use kids as a prestige symbol. Such issues are definitely viable and as many movies that can be made on such issues should be made time and again, even at the cost of bein hackneyed just so people are in constant touch with the brutal truths.

M.K.Prabhakar

M.K.Prabhakar — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Serious films are still being made in India. They are made in Malayalam and to some extent in Tamil too. In fact it would be wrong to equate only Bollywood and its films with Indian cinema. There are many regional actors who can give any Hollywood star a run for their money. Moreover the emotions /culture of ours are different, which need different expressions when compared to a Hollywood movie. As Aamir Khan and Kamal Hassan have rightly pointed out again and again, we do not need Hollywood’s recognition. The recognition of the Indian audience is more important. Let us once for all come out of this ’Oscar’ fixation.

Jayaprashanth

Jayaprashanth — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Mate, i’ve loved your articles and this one is good too but i care a zilch for alll you’ve written bout indian movies in particular.,.,i agree many bollywood movies are blatant copies of hollywood flicks but India is just not Bollywood alone. Please come along and take a look at some Kannada, Tamil, malayalam and a few hinglish movies like that Naseeruddin Shah-Sarika flick bout the Gujarat riots and other wonderful movies.,.,and why does bollywood dish out BS from time to time.,.,because people watch it and even now you can see people going bonkers over superstars.,.,just cos they see movies as escapism.,.,and when we get as developed as the US of A , then bollywood will belt the hell outta hollywood.,.,just wait till it happens.,.,

Jayaprashanth

Jayaprashanth — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

And ofcourse, institutionalised funding has just hit Bollywood and Movie merchandising is just starting off. And along with this, we are seeing movies slowly improve. So, i guess we gotta give the Indian film industry(not bollywood) some time before it can start making some quality cinema.