Tuesday 8 November 2011

Bollywood repeats . . .


While watching this seasons hit song ‘Senorita’ from Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, it dawned on me that Bollywood has completed a full circle; that like history Bollywood too – repeats. It was like watching the old movies when the movie industry was still undergoing the process of evolution. The actors were needed to lend their voices not only for their dialogues but also to what may be considered as the contribution of Indian cinema to the world cinema – the songs. I have always wondered how amazing it would have been if one was the instantaneous being in the movie, to sing and dance poetry on the go. To me, even though i like hearing to the songs, it is one area our movies are so impractical and far from being even surreal. And this song ‘Senorita’ sung by Abhay Deol, Hrithik Roshan and Farhan Akhtar both in and out of the movie, flash-backed Bollywood to the K L Saigal days, when actors were required not just to be actors, but classically trained singers too, which i believe was primarily due to the lack of technology. I don’t know why there has to be singer-heroes now in this era of specialisation, may be just for a change or a thrill. It was fun anyways.

Another aspect of the Bollywood that draws a big circle amounting to a big zero, is its story line which is still in its juvenile stage or rather the bonsai stage. I am much happy and hope many would be relieved that Bollywood has grown past the old “lost-and-found” masala formula. It may be considered as one of the very few achievements of this fashionable and wastrel industry pursuing a retrogressive path, which is the face of Indian cinema to the world, have made. In my FIR, majority of the popular Hollywood movies are based on some very good books, be it fiction or biographies. It saves the director a lot of the ground work, helps him make the theme tangible and the story line close to being flawless. I would love to see more movies which are based on our rich and vivid literature, that appeals and portrays our culture, sentimentalities more real-life-like than just another disconsolated copied-absurd-reel-life-like characters.

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Do u still think this a coincidence?

Movie-makers should stop dividing the movies with an interlude, like Moses divided the Red sea, penalising the viewer by breaking the momentum. Why drag it so much? Ahead lets hope the centripetal force overcomes the centrifugal force, and the string driving the Bollywood industry to run in viscious circle to break, for it to dash straight to the finishing line of perfection.