This post has to have beeen posted on 29th September, better late than never.......
I happened to watch the two movies that are being raved about in the recent times, 'A Wednesday' and 'ROCK ON'. I am impressed or at least it caught my attention and I wanted to say a few words, so here you go.
Yes, accepted that Bollywood broke the bounds of usual cinema techniques, trends and formulae’s and came up with two different cinemas.
But, the question is will it reach the masses as the movies, such a DDLJ, RAJA HIDUSTHANI, the movies of the league of Rajshri Productions and others......
I personally felt that a movie like 'ROCK ON' is a movie for the elite class or the upper strata of people who understand and feel affiliated to the subject in discussion.
Though the movie had a weak storyline, it had a lot of potential portrayals. I felt there is lot of loose ends that could have been tied up, for instance, the breakup between the 'lead guitarist' and the 'lead singer' wasn't established completely and their make-up neither.
Except Farhan Akhtar, I don't see anybody else singing except for in the last concert......
In spite of the fall backs...the movie had some good music and really a new genre in the 'World of Hindi Cinema'. It was refreshing to see new dimensions and new song sequences, instead of a heavy outdoor, a international location, a skimpily clad heroine and a fully clad hero in coat overalls, beautiful helicopter shots, artificial blowing wind, big cars, some jatkha's and some disgusting tactics of the hero moving all over the heroine and the heroine blushing....
The music looks inspired…..but a couple of songs stayed on the memory, like the last song and the female song during their reunion…….
The movie “A Wednesday’ had been yet another different movie in terms of technicality and treatment and portrayal.
There were some basic flaws in the movie, but still it stands out for the portrayal of Naseruddin Shah, and Anupam Kher. Though there isn’t much to talk about their portrayal or acting, they did what was expected out of them and the movie moved frame by frame.
Somehow, the director had missed to keep the suspense till the end and almost towards the end I could guess what is to come, especially by the cell phone ringing on the desk underneath the desk??!!!!
The others in the movie were good, but could have written some script for them too… The movie was a nice perspective for terrorism. I was not convinced of the place where Naseruddin Shah sits to execute his plan…if you show him to be intellectually manipulating the whole show, the location could be anywhere…why a rooftop of a construction building??
Likewise, the usage of the camera crew and a news reporter wasn’t justified, just to keep the audience guessing, I guess. Here again a different, movie in the main stream line of Hindi cinema and not in the parallel cinema or off beat cinema, like the critics love to call it.
I guess this will be the first cinema without a single song or songs for the hero and heroine, no flashbacks, no sentiments, no rona-dhona, no betrayal, no friend’s logic, no girlfriends…..etc.
A movie which did not have rubbish politicians and his clan with a rustic and vulgar dance sequence and an action sequence running parallel, confusing the audience and the director himself. The politician shown in this particular movie was actually used as a puppet and did not do justice to the post shown or described in the movie. At times he looked as if he was at the mercy of the District Commissioner of Police (DCP) of the state rather than showing his rights as a Chief Minister of the state.
Even when he says, I don’t want another bomb blast in the city, it looked as if he wasn’t convinced of what he was asking the DCP to do. Another thing that looked like comedy was the introduction of the hacker…His role could have been established more.
The behavior of the hacker could have been a little better, the dialogues were fair enough but the scope given to him was less that could have been more utilized, since the need of the hour was such….
Apart from the flaws of the movie, it was great to watch a different movie which did not resemble any of the old cinemas or the same beaten story of a rich boy and a poor girl or vice versa….or the sad sentimental movies or the genre of good feel movies.
It is definitely a welcome to the change the cinema goers were looking for but will it reach the masses??? Bombay or Mumbai is a place where the cine field is earning money and surviving due to the same formula of movies day and day out. Will movies of this GENRE run and still be a success??
If we say, the world is changing and peoples’ outlook has changed, yes, I agree to it. But only the middle class of the society has changed…..rest of India is still the same.
Though said and done, the above said sentences are reflections of an individual and do not stand as the universal truth or predilection of whatever in discussion.
Thank You.
I happened to watch the two movies that are being raved about in the recent times, 'A Wednesday' and 'ROCK ON'. I am impressed or at least it caught my attention and I wanted to say a few words, so here you go.
Yes, accepted that Bollywood broke the bounds of usual cinema techniques, trends and formulae’s and came up with two different cinemas.
But, the question is will it reach the masses as the movies, such a DDLJ, RAJA HIDUSTHANI, the movies of the league of Rajshri Productions and others......
I personally felt that a movie like 'ROCK ON' is a movie for the elite class or the upper strata of people who understand and feel affiliated to the subject in discussion.
Though the movie had a weak storyline, it had a lot of potential portrayals. I felt there is lot of loose ends that could have been tied up, for instance, the breakup between the 'lead guitarist' and the 'lead singer' wasn't established completely and their make-up neither.
Except Farhan Akhtar, I don't see anybody else singing except for in the last concert......
In spite of the fall backs...the movie had some good music and really a new genre in the 'World of Hindi Cinema'. It was refreshing to see new dimensions and new song sequences, instead of a heavy outdoor, a international location, a skimpily clad heroine and a fully clad hero in coat overalls, beautiful helicopter shots, artificial blowing wind, big cars, some jatkha's and some disgusting tactics of the hero moving all over the heroine and the heroine blushing....
The music looks inspired…..but a couple of songs stayed on the memory, like the last song and the female song during their reunion…….
The movie “A Wednesday’ had been yet another different movie in terms of technicality and treatment and portrayal.
There were some basic flaws in the movie, but still it stands out for the portrayal of Naseruddin Shah, and Anupam Kher. Though there isn’t much to talk about their portrayal or acting, they did what was expected out of them and the movie moved frame by frame.
Somehow, the director had missed to keep the suspense till the end and almost towards the end I could guess what is to come, especially by the cell phone ringing on the desk underneath the desk??!!!!
The others in the movie were good, but could have written some script for them too… The movie was a nice perspective for terrorism. I was not convinced of the place where Naseruddin Shah sits to execute his plan…if you show him to be intellectually manipulating the whole show, the location could be anywhere…why a rooftop of a construction building??
Likewise, the usage of the camera crew and a news reporter wasn’t justified, just to keep the audience guessing, I guess. Here again a different, movie in the main stream line of Hindi cinema and not in the parallel cinema or off beat cinema, like the critics love to call it.
I guess this will be the first cinema without a single song or songs for the hero and heroine, no flashbacks, no sentiments, no rona-dhona, no betrayal, no friend’s logic, no girlfriends…..etc.
A movie which did not have rubbish politicians and his clan with a rustic and vulgar dance sequence and an action sequence running parallel, confusing the audience and the director himself. The politician shown in this particular movie was actually used as a puppet and did not do justice to the post shown or described in the movie. At times he looked as if he was at the mercy of the District Commissioner of Police (DCP) of the state rather than showing his rights as a Chief Minister of the state.
Even when he says, I don’t want another bomb blast in the city, it looked as if he wasn’t convinced of what he was asking the DCP to do. Another thing that looked like comedy was the introduction of the hacker…His role could have been established more.
The behavior of the hacker could have been a little better, the dialogues were fair enough but the scope given to him was less that could have been more utilized, since the need of the hour was such….
Apart from the flaws of the movie, it was great to watch a different movie which did not resemble any of the old cinemas or the same beaten story of a rich boy and a poor girl or vice versa….or the sad sentimental movies or the genre of good feel movies.
It is definitely a welcome to the change the cinema goers were looking for but will it reach the masses??? Bombay or Mumbai is a place where the cine field is earning money and surviving due to the same formula of movies day and day out. Will movies of this GENRE run and still be a success??
If we say, the world is changing and peoples’ outlook has changed, yes, I agree to it. But only the middle class of the society has changed…..rest of India is still the same.
Though said and done, the above said sentences are reflections of an individual and do not stand as the universal truth or predilection of whatever in discussion.
Thank You.
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