Nepe Ji,

Thanks
for the article on parallel cinema, it was very informative. I grew up with black/white Indian cinema too, though not too many. My whole argument of Us Vs Them was from a South Asian point of view. I consider the East Asian much more advanced compared to us.Their field
of arts has always been as competitive as the West.

For example Japanese. When Akira Kurosawa was the biggest director on the earth, people like George Lukas, Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood were nobody, eventually these big Hollywood directors grew up as a huge fan of the Japanese director. George Luka's Star War has so many
reference to Kurosawas's movie, even the character were an abstract version of many of the Japanese movies. Martin Scorsese even played a role in the movie “Dreams”. “Magnificent Seven”, “A Fistful of Dollars (played by Clint)” were all remake of Kuroshwas's movies. During the 60s, the hay day of Japanese movie industry, the concept of art, story and human emotion were explored to the peak by many Japanese directors, they are all now a part of Sony's Criterion Collection. I compare b/w Indian cinema and b/w Japanese cinema made way earlier than the Indians, the quality and the effectiveness of Japanese is way superior,most importantly universal theme. I bet they were the best export of Asian movie to the West. Nowadays, Koreans and Chinese are coming up as powerhouse in terms of artistic movies. Ang Lee already has an Oscar, if that's how things are measured. Zang Yimou is fascinating and creative. There are many brilliant new age directors in Korea who are getting popular in the West and there will be a huge number of remix in the coming year of those Korean movies. By the way I do not consider "SlumDog Millionaire" as a Indian movie like the rest of the people who are so excited about, you see them going on and on as if we, Nepali acieved the glory.

Not just regular movies, Japanese are the founder of Anime/animation/cartoon. Their quality and character of abstract superheros are the best even by the Western standard. Godzilla paved the way for King Kong and Jurassic Park.

“conservatism, hatred, denial and other negativism” are universal. Look who's talking? We have more disease of these kind than the West, to my understanding. Having progressive “desire” is different than living a progressive “life”. I firmly believe that we are NOT as progressive as you've implied. Not even remotely as a matter of fact.

“Patience is a virtue” -- we say it all the time, just don't practice it. It is boring because the story line calls for that silence, camera angle, the drone music of a story that is boring to begin with. I
don't think the director can do a whole lot there unless he make a Matrix type of high flying, gun shooting and blazing music to get the attention of those bored audience. Well, then it won't be the genre. People simply do not have the “patience”. Isn't it the same concept that we cannot display affection in public while our temples are carved with sexual images. Hello Kamasutra people, waaaaaas up?