Comments on: The New Wave of Filmmakers in Bollywood

By: Literati

Literati — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:07:27 +0000

Well if 41% speak it ( granted that’s greater than the USA population), 59% don’t

By: nirvana demon

nirvana demon — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:20:04 +0000

dear literati, according to the 2001 census, a lttle over 41% of india speaks hindi. thats more than 422 million native speakers, not including persons like me whose first language and second language is somethng else, but can fluently converse, read and write in hindi. if u include urdu, which is similar in grammar and syntax, this number swells to more than 650 million. these are impressive numbers, surely. then where is the “real india” u (and mister shah) talk about? regards, nirvana demon

By: Lupus Solitarius

Lupus Solitarius — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:01:51 +0000

Most of Real India doesn't even speak Hindi

Where is the 'Real' India situated, Wanderer, and what language does it speak?

By: Literati

Literati — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:31:36 +0000

Only A**hole desis use the term Bollywood

By: Wanderer

Wanderer — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:27:56 +0000

1) Watch the interview with Nassruddin Shah 2) Bollywood is crap copies of western material 3) Most of Real India doesn’t even speak Hindi..the whole industry needs a genuine revamp 4) Why do we desis love talking about Music, Actors models et al? Why don’t we pay this much attention to high level ( not English) Indian Literature? Surely there are many ideas in them that can be turned to original stories?

By: fob

fob — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:44:13 +0000

Gee, have I hread about the revolutionization of Bollywood befre? yes, I have, every couple of years, in fact. Especially if you are a reader of India Today, you would have heard every 6 months or so how “hip young directors with global outlooks” were going to change Bollywood forever. Then their films come out and they turn out to be the same garbage as before, albeit with bigger budgets and slicker production values.

By: filmy

filmy — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:53:10 +0000

Nanda Kishore,

Agreed on all except I feel Basu Chaterjee, Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Aziz Mirza etc. made films like Oye Lucky etc.

By: Lupus Solitarius

Lupus Solitarius — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:43:03 +0000

Aravind, It’s me, Dorian Gray. Funny meeting you here!. Anyway, I must say you have done a really good job with the blog. Nicely covered most of the recent ‘new wave’ movies that I liked. Do you remember when we went to see Hyderabad blues? I think they were handing out free Charms cigarettes (Charms blues)- how the times have changed.

By: aravind

aravind — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:08:56 +0000

dear all, This is an interesting thread, and also one that discusses the very obvious new wave in hindi cinema. I just read a blog post http://wiralmenongitis.wordpress.com/2008/12/04/4-12-2008-an-exciting-phase-in-hindi-cinema/ a few days back that actually lists some of these new directors: basu, misra, bharadwaj – al the usual suspects are there, ion addition with people like mathew (?) who made “my wife’s murder” recently, that was taut and gripping. Well, to come back to the discussion, I feel that the wave was actually begun by the movie “hyderabad blues” released in 1998, and which brought about the much-maligned “multiplex movie” trend. watsays, everyone?

By: jyotsana

jyotsana — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:35:34 +0000

Whoever said this that today's entertainers are tomorrow's classics is a genius. Absolutely. When philharmonic orchestras present a take on Led Zeppelin (as did a v.v.renowned Midwestern orchestra 2 years back) you know that the popular has become profound. A few months back when I heard that Prakash Mehra had passed away, on a whim, I decided I must see one of his classics. So I tuned into youtube.com, and there I find Muqaddar ka Sikandar. Wow! When Nihalani made Ardh Satya everyone commented how the villain is not a crazily dressed caricature ensconced in a cave or fortress but a portly mundane character housed in a simple flat, but utterly venal. Did they forget Ajit's Seth Dharam Dayal Teja, a peddler of spurious pharmaceuticals? His "hideout" is an simple bungalow (probably located in Juhu VPS) but obviously only hte very rich can afford them in Bombay, so was the character sketched. And talking about the innovaive filmmakers, everyone has forgotten Bharatiraja's Tamizh classics, starting with his first one - 16 Vayathinile.