11-15-2006, 01:20 AM
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What do you think of movies potraying crooks and various abominable characters sympathetically? Bollywood routinely does that - in them even terrorists have a heart of Gold. Hollywood is not behind too (Godfather?). But while watching a movie, people are rooting for a bad guy, don't you think something is wrong?
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Utepian,
Zee's about to (or already has?) start a series on "Ravana" and I'm looking forward to same. I'll be rooting for the story, the epic and not necessarily the hero here which would be Ravana. Mahabharat appeals to me more than Ramayana because it shows as to how there are various shades of grey and everything's not black-n-white.
It may be just me, but people general are able to distinguish between right and wrong and between reel life and real life. I'm sure there are isolated cases of people imitating Bollywood/Hollywood and doing stupid things. An example would be Amjad Khan's 'Inkaar' (70s or early 80s) where a kid was kidnapped and held at ransom - in our town, two teenagers kidnapped their own kid brother and it ended in a tragedy.
Most times stories are picked up and made into a movie where heros are some sort of Robinhood kinda thief or some villian who's on side a do-gooder. In some old Hindi movies wealth creators (Shethji types) are bad guys or capitalism is bad!!
Some Bollywood types have a <b>consistent</b> pattern of producing movies to make political statements or spread negative psy-ops...example Mira Nair. Her movies run because she advertises as to the kind of threats and pressures she's had to deal with to make her movie. Next time she creates some trash, ignore it - sure way to sink the movie and money.
Talking about terrorist with heart of gold, one movie I really couldn't get it was 'Dil Se'. A educated individual (Shahrukh) falls for a girl (Monisha?) who he's hardly met or known and then blasts himself with her at some suicide terrorism mission.
Pretty pissed with that director/producer there.
Sorry for an hodge-podge of items thrown out on this - perhaps someone else can expand or elaborate.
What do you think of movies potraying crooks and various abominable characters sympathetically? Bollywood routinely does that - in them even terrorists have a heart of Gold. Hollywood is not behind too (Godfather?). But while watching a movie, people are rooting for a bad guy, don't you think something is wrong?
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Utepian,
Zee's about to (or already has?) start a series on "Ravana" and I'm looking forward to same. I'll be rooting for the story, the epic and not necessarily the hero here which would be Ravana. Mahabharat appeals to me more than Ramayana because it shows as to how there are various shades of grey and everything's not black-n-white.
It may be just me, but people general are able to distinguish between right and wrong and between reel life and real life. I'm sure there are isolated cases of people imitating Bollywood/Hollywood and doing stupid things. An example would be Amjad Khan's 'Inkaar' (70s or early 80s) where a kid was kidnapped and held at ransom - in our town, two teenagers kidnapped their own kid brother and it ended in a tragedy.
Most times stories are picked up and made into a movie where heros are some sort of Robinhood kinda thief or some villian who's on side a do-gooder. In some old Hindi movies wealth creators (Shethji types) are bad guys or capitalism is bad!!
Some Bollywood types have a <b>consistent</b> pattern of producing movies to make political statements or spread negative psy-ops...example Mira Nair. Her movies run because she advertises as to the kind of threats and pressures she's had to deal with to make her movie. Next time she creates some trash, ignore it - sure way to sink the movie and money.
Talking about terrorist with heart of gold, one movie I really couldn't get it was 'Dil Se'. A educated individual (Shahrukh) falls for a girl (Monisha?) who he's hardly met or known and then blasts himself with her at some suicide terrorism mission.
Pretty pissed with that director/producer there.
Sorry for an hodge-podge of items thrown out on this - perhaps someone else can expand or elaborate.