Carrying on with the movie mania effect, let's highlight things in a more Indian perspective. I tried to but could not merge this with either of my two previous posts on the same topic of movies. Thus a complete column dedicated to Indian movies. Movies here are welcomed with zest, with fanatic fan following, people from different walks of life being involved, and maybe as it is in a language closer to heart compared to foreign ones.
The movies here are more often than not linked to local emotions & events. As one of our yesteryear heroes says, "is mein action hain, tragedy hain, emotion hain, drama hain", would sum it up. Writing a concise column would be more challenging than the previous ones. Let's start with the regional ones & move to Hindi movies. What I'll do is a two part series. One dedicated to South Indian movies and the second to Hindi movies. Well Bengali industry has and continues to give a good contribution to our major tinsel town. From talented artists to heart touching stories, to the year's largest grosser. My knowledge of Bengali movies just ends there so not much to write. But I sure do promise to write on movies made in most Indian languages sometime shortly.
Ok when I say regional movies, first thing that comes to my mind is South Indian movies especially Tamil & Telugu movies. The two film fraternities are in a sort of parallelism but still fighting each other for supremacy. Both have had their share of greats. Here I am not ruling out the other major south Indian languages of Kannada & Malayalam. They have the competence to give the other two a run for their money. Well all the four major filming fraternities are known for their One Big Hero in the industry types. Of-late the latter two fraternities have sort of started trailing the other two.
On the storyline front, personally I feel the Malayalam ones rule the roost in south Indian movies. The best of the lot have found a remake in almost every language spoken in India. On the numbers front Telugu & Tamil always seem to have a tug of war. Being a Kannadiga, the plight of Kannada movies pains me. Kannada movies had a huge set back due to poor showing, localization beyond necessity, too much of a one man show, unable to break the cliché. Nowadays there is a trend to attract more people, a bigger pool of talent, trying & testing new ideas. Good luck guys.
The more commercial movies in South are ones that are still stuck in the 80's timeframe with modern day technology. Here I'm not making a comment specific to any one movie but rather a generalization.
The hero invariably happens to be a poor guy whose parents have been oppressed by the rich & bad heroine's father/uncle. The guy & girl fall in love. The rich father doesn't approve & hell breaks loose on the poor chap. He fights all odds to marry the gal. In between all this is a sequence of some foot tapping numbers most of them miserably choreographed and lots of tears. Somewhere far and between are some comedy scenes included which have no correlation at any part of the movie.
If you feel the one described above is all. Hold on to your horses, there is more. This time round the hero happens to be a son of a very rich dad but destiny has other plans for him. His dad is killed by his brother/some close relative (most of the time)/friend. The hero is oppressed & underfed in childhood & is laboring hard thru out his childhood & all of a sudden there is a strong muscular young man who is the best in studies! Man I did for sure believe that hard work pays, but this way? Phew! Shane Warne's spin is easier to comprehend. Now he gets a high paying job in the bad guy's office, falls in love with his daughter & same story. Oh, lord please save me. Finally, the bad guy apologizes & gives back the assets to the rightly owner/dies rather should I say gets killed for his bad deeds. Hey one more point here, our hero never gets jailed for killing the bad guy. Of course we have a sequence of some numbers, lots & lots of tears and some comedy scenes having no correlation at any part of the movie.
If you thought the two are the only classifications you are absolutely wrong. There is college love story with the gal's dad being the bad guy (this is stereo type for me to even write in my column). He is involved in all sorts of "evil to society" acts but still retains a good guy image in society & same old story. Hero beats him, gets the gal & they lived happily ever after.
To some description on the dance oops, song sequences. There is bound to be a rain dance (wonder do they ever catch a cold?). One drill dance (like the boring P.T we used to have in school but this is with a song); one running round trees/beaches/parks dance, one teary number, one in praise of the lord, one Item number, one for the long lost mother/father/brother/sister, so on & so forth. Hey that’s not all. Remember all those extras appearing in the dance sequence. They somehow amaze me. They are walking along on a busy road; see the hero/heroine dance, join them. Whatever happened to the urgent work they were attending to?
Now to fight sequences. First is the hero's father getting killed either with a bullet/brutal murder (if there is time for that). Second is hero getting bashed up by sum ugly looking guys, hero gate crashes the bad guys party smashing & thrashing some of the bad guys, the bad guys now take their revenge, followed by hero taking his revenge & finally hero thrashing the hell out of everyone in sight.
Now let us focus on the ages of our characters. Hero - 40-75yrs Heroine 15-25 (sometimes 28 if the producer & director don’t have enough funds/hero asks for a particular heroine). Hero's mother 30-65; most of the times the mother would have played the hero's gal in her hay days (read - at least 5-6 yrs back). Hero's father & bad guy some character actor in the age group of 35-55. These are the guys who came to the industry to become heroes but didn't have enough backing/funding. Extras come in different shapes, ages & sizes.
1 comment:
Yeah.. absolutly ,i am consider with you.... whatever you explained about movies... now a days its going like that only....
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