Posted by: hurray March 21, 2006
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Even though Bollywood boosts to produce the most number of motion pictures per year than any other movie industry, the movies just lack in quality. The lack in quality of direction, script, storyline, and acting are all vivid in bollywood movies. Barely any actors and actress in this industry are products of theatre or drama schools, or posses the pungent acting skills to penetrate the industry run mainly by a group of families and passed along. Rather they are a collection of people who are better looking than average and have outgrown in fashion industry, people who are close friends with industrialists or underground mafia leaders who finance the producers and are seen as good investments, or people who are akins to actors, directors, or studio owners. Time has changed, and so has bollywood. These days when you slide your movie in you dvd player and it starts to spin, you are greeted with various highly animated movie trailers. Even the casting names appear fancifully rotating, revolving, disappearing from and to every angle the graphic designer could have found. And you quickly tend to think “Ow bollywood has changed or may have improved.” But then the movies starts and you find yourself again either trying to entertain yourself or trying to not get bored by a long movie with story that redundantly runs in circle just like the casting names. May be the same graphic designer got his share of input in the storyline, you would assume. And when the movie finally does get over, you are more satisfied that it did happen than by what you just watched. You are left with the same “Well, what to expect from a bollywood movie” kind of attitude. Bollywood movies lack the core of good movies; its lacks director’s imagination to push actors to produce their best acting, and it lacks good story line, essential ingredients to a good movie. When you are struck with a headline that a nine year old bollywood director created a World Record by being the youngest in his profession, you are left with mixed feeling; you don’t know whether to applause or to quickly pull out “movies to avoid” list and jot the movie’s name down. I am not sure when bollywood realizes why they have not won any Oscar while they constantly whine about how partial Oscar committee has been to award only the movies from west.
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