Some in the US don't like bad movies either:
http://entertainment.in.msn.com/bollywood/...umentid=1782616
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>US Media bashes 'Chandni Chowk'!</b>
American mainstream media has given a lukewarm reception to 'Chandni Chowk to China', the largest-ever release of a Bollywood movie in North America, calling it "a genetic experiment" and a "genre-mashup overkill".
"A veggie-slicing galoot from Delhi goes to China to realise his destiny as a martial arts master - and just from the synopsis, I'm on board with 'Chandni Chowk to China'," says Time magazine reviewer Richard Corliss.
But "the results of this genetic experiment are mixed. 'Chandni Chowk' is probably a decent sampler for Americans who've never seen a full-out Bollywood musical since it goes heavy on the action scenes and light on the big dance numbers", he says.
<b>The film "has the feel of one of many Indian glosses on American films, not of something fresh and foreign.</b> For a really thrilling amalgam of Bollywood and Hong Kong, I'm still waiting", says Corliss.
The New York Times says: "Genre mixing is mother's milk to Hindi films, so it's no surprise that 'Chandni Chowk to China' can so seamlessly add Kung Fu to the usual blend of comedy, dance and melodrama."
'Chandni Chowk to China', the first Bollywood movie to be financed and distributed by Warner Brothers, "starts too frantically but settles down to become an enjoyable, if slight Saturday-matinee, picture", says reviewer Rachel Saltz.
To Washington Times, 'Chandni Chowk' seems, "in some ways, like a dish at one of those Indian restaurants - its spiciness has been toned down for the American market".
<b>"Still, it's unlike anything Hollywood puts out. The Bollywood film is unapologetically sentimental and silly, and this melodrama is no exception," it says.</b>
Robert Abele of the Los Angeles Times says in 'Chandni Chowk to China', "Kung fu pounds it out with Bollywood and round after round of gags, chaos and music".<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Sad. India could be making really amazing films - something many another country is doing, but which India is prevented from doing since the artistically-inept have taken over.
What MF Hussein is to drawing (yeah, what IS that ink blot he keeps perpetrating onto paper anyway?), christoislamania + its conditioning is to Indian cinema. Both these publicly-visible areas have become huddling groups for the talentless, where all are uniformly dressed in the emperor's new clothes and then complimenting each other on their taste and creativity <!--emo&:blink:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo-->
And since I'm already complaining -
I've seen movie trailer ads on Zee or some other Indian channel in my friends house. And my immediate question is: why is no one doing something about the bland (and at times downright scary) looking characters who are positioned as focal points *in front* of the lens of Indian movies. Is that even <i>legal</i>?
With a few notable exceptions, why is Indian cinema unable to give me any of the lovely people I see when I wander about TN (and their counterparts in the rest of India)? So many people I've seen there day-to-day inspire me into drawing them, but modern Indian cinema...
hakes head:
Moreover, since Indian twattywood cinema requires no acting talent as it is, I'm sure *anyone* will do then - and that most of the regular citizens I've clapped my eyes on can in fact do far better.
But then, the storylines ought to be similarly improved to be deserving of them, I suppose...
http://entertainment.in.msn.com/bollywood/...umentid=1782616
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>US Media bashes 'Chandni Chowk'!</b>
American mainstream media has given a lukewarm reception to 'Chandni Chowk to China', the largest-ever release of a Bollywood movie in North America, calling it "a genetic experiment" and a "genre-mashup overkill".
"A veggie-slicing galoot from Delhi goes to China to realise his destiny as a martial arts master - and just from the synopsis, I'm on board with 'Chandni Chowk to China'," says Time magazine reviewer Richard Corliss.
But "the results of this genetic experiment are mixed. 'Chandni Chowk' is probably a decent sampler for Americans who've never seen a full-out Bollywood musical since it goes heavy on the action scenes and light on the big dance numbers", he says.
<b>The film "has the feel of one of many Indian glosses on American films, not of something fresh and foreign.</b> For a really thrilling amalgam of Bollywood and Hong Kong, I'm still waiting", says Corliss.
The New York Times says: "Genre mixing is mother's milk to Hindi films, so it's no surprise that 'Chandni Chowk to China' can so seamlessly add Kung Fu to the usual blend of comedy, dance and melodrama."
'Chandni Chowk to China', the first Bollywood movie to be financed and distributed by Warner Brothers, "starts too frantically but settles down to become an enjoyable, if slight Saturday-matinee, picture", says reviewer Rachel Saltz.
To Washington Times, 'Chandni Chowk' seems, "in some ways, like a dish at one of those Indian restaurants - its spiciness has been toned down for the American market".
<b>"Still, it's unlike anything Hollywood puts out. The Bollywood film is unapologetically sentimental and silly, and this melodrama is no exception," it says.</b>
Robert Abele of the Los Angeles Times says in 'Chandni Chowk to China', "Kung fu pounds it out with Bollywood and round after round of gags, chaos and music".<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Sad. India could be making really amazing films - something many another country is doing, but which India is prevented from doing since the artistically-inept have taken over.
What MF Hussein is to drawing (yeah, what IS that ink blot he keeps perpetrating onto paper anyway?), christoislamania + its conditioning is to Indian cinema. Both these publicly-visible areas have become huddling groups for the talentless, where all are uniformly dressed in the emperor's new clothes and then complimenting each other on their taste and creativity <!--emo&:blink:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo-->
And since I'm already complaining -
I've seen movie trailer ads on Zee or some other Indian channel in my friends house. And my immediate question is: why is no one doing something about the bland (and at times downright scary) looking characters who are positioned as focal points *in front* of the lens of Indian movies. Is that even <i>legal</i>?
With a few notable exceptions, why is Indian cinema unable to give me any of the lovely people I see when I wander about TN (and their counterparts in the rest of India)? So many people I've seen there day-to-day inspire me into drawing them, but modern Indian cinema...
hakes head:Moreover, since Indian twattywood cinema requires no acting talent as it is, I'm sure *anyone* will do then - and that most of the regular citizens I've clapped my eyes on can in fact do far better.
But then, the storylines ought to be similarly improved to be deserving of them, I suppose...