It is now the world's largest film industry residing in India. It produces, on average, about 900-1000 films a year, of which 700-999 are passable and forgettble junk. It is big by sheer volume only, it has no influence around the world in cinema....it is only ahead in sheer numbers, nothing else.
Bollywood: the all-time height of kitsch, shrillness and overall mindnumbing cornyness. You gotta love it.
I've noticed that the supporting actors in bollywood, the ones who get the bit parts aren't too bad. It's the 'superstars' who can't act a lick. Mindless melodrama. Oh shit Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
TO AIRAVATA and SARGENTLARD....... I expect this from u mindless, mannerless , emotionless creatures living in an illusionary world created by u and ur mind.....its a wastage of time and morals in disscussing with creatures like u... tell me anywhere i used any moralless words for those 25% people who love hollywood...? but mannersless creature like u are continusely using bad words for 75% people who love bollywood... when u abuse eastern cinima , it should be in ur mind , it is loved by 75% of people on earth and 60% share in worlds cinima.... just because ur taste is different from taste of majourity of cinima viewers...u will abuse that cinima and people. there is a difference between abusing and disscussing , u illetrate as i said before both bollywood and hollywood are completely different...where bollywood is based on emotions , love , family bondings , songs .. hollywood is based on action and fiction. hence , those who like them have completely different tastes...and there is no right for one medium lover to abuse other....ofcourse there is a space for disscussion. its better for both of u (AIRAVATA and SARGENTLARD) make a new forum ..name it-"we are abusers" , and remain there.... UR THIS STEP WILL HELP IN THE CLEANNESS OF OTHER FORUMS. i love hollywood but BOLLYWOOD IS BEST. :m:
Ok agreed that our movies are not as good as hollywood, because we copy many themes. But what about music??? I like desi music much better How about you the setting, the music?????
It actually manages to be worse than the movies themselves. Despise it...no subtlety in lyrics, no real emotion, no one playing instruments, no creativity, no real good voices (gone are the days of Kumar Sanu....*sigh*) The setting...what settings?...all songs take place in 3 typical enviroments. 1) A Ski Lodge in Switzerland 2) In grassy valleys in Switzerland 3) A beach in Goa. Thats it....there are no other settings. Switzerland even gave India a fucking honorary medal for running their economy with shitty music videos shot up there. With that said; A.R Rahman derserves a medal of honor for some sort....just look a tthe msuic is Satthiya, Dil Se, and the current Swades.....brilliant man.
hey rahul, chod naa yaar.kiske saath debate kar raha hey.hum jaante hey bollywood kya hey.we dont need to compare with hollywood.both represent diffrent culuture.you dont need to tell what bollywood is.sensible people know better.
Thank you...lately there has been a pouring of songs taking place in cheesy night clubs, where everyone just seems to know the dance routine that will take place. It is funny how so many of this songs involve an uptight girl losing her inhibitions and just dancing her dirty heart out...
So very true. I come from South India. The Plot of every movie is the same. 1.Guy falls in love with girl. 2.Girl doesn't notice the guy. 3.Guy tries everything to get the girl. 4.Bad guy comes in from nowhere. 5.The good guy and the bad guy starts fight. 6.Girl and Guy fall in love at the end. If you have seen one movie then you seen 'em all. Gave up on Indian movies.
I think that's a gross generalisation. Ok, maybe 90% of the Bollywood and Tamil movies are like that (don't know about toher languages) but there are some great movies. Usually, Mani Ratnam movies are great!
A short curve: Bollywood will gain viewers in the USA as numbers of Indians here skyrockets, then will begin failing it as the next generation no longer have a clear ethnic identity. It will then be absorbed by Hollywood. :m:
90% of Hollywood follows the same rough formula, except it's not guy-versus-guy but guy-against-world.
BY THE WAY, if this is a canadien website then this discussion is useless. Just like everything else, canadiens are also thinking that hollywood is theirs. It belongs to america not canada. Why man these canadiens do nothing and think that everything american is theirs. to make it worse at the end of the day they say that US sucks. Who here is talking that Bollywood is not believable. You want me to believe in Matrix, or Spiderman, or Lord of the rings, which is a complete grade 4 story. Except that there is a stick instead of ring. "Lord of the sticks", Ya the title might not have suited well that is why the ring was replaced. If bollywood is popular its no one's fault. Its the talent and skill of actors. May be people like watching some of hollywood's stories acted by bollywood actors just because they look better, act realisticly and sound real. Many of the action flicks taken in hollywood are tae kwondo, Hap ki do or Judo, now isn't this asian. Certified go to a psychologist. Watch bollywood movies first. Its like saying exactly what android said. If bollywood movies are all about what u said then hollywood movies are same crap of a guy vs the whole world. A.R Rehman is a genius. He is a legend. He has gotten national award too. I don't doubt his talent at all. As far as airavata is concerned, man u call others illetrate. Please go and have a look at urself. U need a treatment really bad. If there are any people that are born to Indian families who have went against their own culture, put one thing in ur head. Indians ur not, white u cannot be. So who ru?? where do u belong. U people really need to think that before u say anything else. Aishwarya Rai is the most beautiful women in the world. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! So hollywood might be an industry in a part of the world, but Bollywood Rules.
You seem to think that being Indian means supporting everything and everyone that is Indian, regardless of their talent. I don't support some crappy industry which makes crap movies just because it happens to be Indian. There's a difference between patriotism and ethnocentricism. Thinking that Bollywood is crap and not watching most of it's movies is not going against Indian culture. You seem to be saying that Bollywood is 'culture'. If you classify Bollywood as 'culture', you need to be lobotomized rahul sharma.
