ExpertDabbler

I watch movies and then I write my own rant about them a lot later.
Some do like to call it reviews. Technically i am not sure what defines a review.
I watched Life in a Metro and Chak de sometime back. Fathima asked me to write about Chak de long time back. Fathima manichukko

Both are Hindi movies, and i know that in itself will make a lot of my friends run away from the theatres. But i felt those are two good movies. Good does not tranlate to winning the oscar for india. But good translates to watchable, decent stuff which does not insult the intelligence of the auience to a large extent.

I have to admit that Hindi cinema is slowly coming off age in terms of story selection and treatment. I would even say they show time and again they have the guts to make movies ‘different’ rom the routine fares dished out on the average.

Chak De, for instance does not bother about heroines. Sure there are more than a few girls but no heroines to run around the trees with SRK.

Life in a Metro can have you stunned in terms of some scenes. The story is definitely for matured audiences but there was nothing puerile about the picturisation.

There is no dearth of talent in India, and certainly not within the movie industry. What we lack is guts. Most of the directors do not have guts to make the kinda movies they really want to make. Producers do not want take ‘risks’ so end up running behind a hero who commands several crores and a script that would suite his ‘image’.

The end result is more often a crappy product.

Why not some software company comes up with an engine which can do the rating for a cinema?

We have engines which gives out credit rating scores for individuals in US. I am sure there are some parameters to assess the success of a movie too. Even a ball park estimate about a film’s potential vasool would help immensely for a beginning.

Gladwell has a very interesting article about this. I think a country like India where entertainment is a huge business should go for a movie rating engine.

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