Posted:
13 years ago
I think that's a very intelligent article, but where a lot if not given credit for too. Here the author concentrates a lot on the commercial success of a movie, which makes it identity yes, but not its entity. There are still people like me out there, who'd rather watch a Raavan, for the sheer art aspect of the movie and direction and acting, rather than go for some, forget cinema, even DVD rubbish of SIK, Welcome or Housefull, none of which I've watched by the way. Those movies ought to be made, because there still are people like me who have DVDs of A Wednesday, Rand De Basanti, Chak De, Swades, Dil Se on their shelves rather than the 90% senseless,baseless and utterly ridiculous movies that come out every year.
The author is right in his own way. But I still believe the audience is getting far more intelligent today than it was a few years earlier down the line. People are softening to the creative and mature aspect of movies, there would be no way movies like Omkara, Kaminey(though I never thought it was such a master piece), Vivaah, A Wednesday, My Name is Khan, 3 Idiots, and so many more would be widely accepted. Sure, you don't always hit a the bull's eye, but till we are directors like Bansali, Gowarikar, Anuraj, Ratnam who are some of the best in the business, despite however for some their attitude sucks, I think we can still hope for epics.
We need people to understand and appreciate good movie and direction. I dislike Ash, I dislike Hritik, both who I think are hugely overrated for their own good. But I loved Jodha Akbhar, a well-made movie in all aspects. That's worth your ticket now. Who cares about a 3-hour past movie if you get to watch good cinema? Hell, I'd watch 6-hour of good cinema over 1.5-hour of senseless comedy that's not even funny any day!
No one says commercial and intelligent cinema cannot be mixed. What would you call Kal Ho Naa Ho? That's the best example I could get to my mind right now. Wasn't that superb and commercial together? I really cannot figure out why people can't make such movies, and make them well!
I'll come up with more depending on how the thread leads...
P.S And someone rightly said, people care more about what Katrina wears or who Ranbir/Shahid are dating as we can see by response to this thread. Once that's going to change, which is a far, far, far long time, a Raavan would be declared a hit before a Housefull.