It's never too late...
I would have lived my life the way it is even without writing this blog, but thought this new age PR tool may help create some balance headed publicity for the movie mentioned latter in the title.
Something more was impressive with OSO and not with Saawariyan that may have attracted the crowd, or rather the herd...the promotions, advertising and the defensive mode of the spokespersons of Saawariyan. The timing of the release was just a sheer unfortuntate coincidence for Saawariyan, the things would have certainly been different otherwise.
But what perplexes me is the bollywood veterans managed to fool the audience with the pre-release hype and extravagant stardom deliberately been itemitized in the movie. The frivoulous and again deliberate comedy baring few sensibly placed spoofs on stars like Shabana Azmi, Manoj Kumar, Suraj Barjatya can be considered for appreciation. The most amazing of things is that the audience went hysterically wild on atti batti katti...who's your daddy...the SRK's attempt to look and sound funny...my south Indian friends did not like it though.
I can write many paragraphs and many more web pages that may be proof enough of my inclination towards Saawariyan... for reasons I shall tell you soon... but again this is an effort to play a balance pitch and not sideline the efforts of starcast / film makers and many more involved at either sides...
The idea is to be able to agree or open a dialogue atleast on movie that is not meant for masses, is meant for a close group of audience - for those who love musical theatre and classic movies/authors, like the stage settings, liked characters rather than the cast playing them, like the settings of the story rather than the sets. The movie may n
ot be positioned well, it is not the fault of the actors or the film maker but probably their publicity and promotion agencies. The movie was meant for those who wanted the theatrical representation on the larger screen, who had the love for emotions underlying the art of story telling and empathy towards the characters. Though the movie may have lacked some finer nuances or technical sharpness, but was not that bad that the masses rubbished it away...
May the Indian audience grow a little more mature and also try appreciate another league of art form, may they have enough choices and a larger heart to accept variety and uniqueness...
may they go crazy for hockey rather than cricket...till then...
keep watching Bollywood
I would have lived my life the way it is even without writing this blog, but thought this new age PR tool may help create some balance headed publicity for the movie mentioned latter in the title.
Something more was impressive with OSO and not with Saawariyan that may have attracted the crowd, or rather the herd...the promotions, advertising and the defensive mode of the spokespersons of Saawariyan. The timing of the release was just a sheer unfortuntate coincidence for Saawariyan, the things would have certainly been different otherwise.
But what perplexes me is the bollywood veterans managed to fool the audience with the pre-release hype and extravagant stardom deliberately been itemitized in the movie. The frivoulous and again deliberate comedy baring few sensibly placed spoofs on stars like Shabana Azmi, Manoj Kumar, Suraj Barjatya can be considered for appreciation. The most amazing of things is that the audience went hysterically wild on atti batti katti...who's your daddy...the SRK's attempt to look and sound funny...my south Indian friends did not like it though.
I can write many paragraphs and many more web pages that may be proof enough of my inclination towards Saawariyan... for reasons I shall tell you soon... but again this is an effort to play a balance pitch and not sideline the efforts of starcast / film makers and many more involved at either sides...
The idea is to be able to agree or open a dialogue atleast on movie that is not meant for masses, is meant for a close group of audience - for those who love musical theatre and classic movies/authors, like the stage settings, liked characters rather than the cast playing them, like the settings of the story rather than the sets. The movie may n
ot be positioned well, it is not the fault of the actors or the film maker but probably their publicity and promotion agencies. The movie was meant for those who wanted the theatrical representation on the larger screen, who had the love for emotions underlying the art of story telling and empathy towards the characters. Though the movie may have lacked some finer nuances or technical sharpness, but was not that bad that the masses rubbished it away...May the Indian audience grow a little more mature and also try appreciate another league of art form, may they have enough choices and a larger heart to accept variety and uniqueness...
may they go crazy for hockey rather than cricket...till then...
keep watching Bollywood
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