Re: Can someone explain?
by abhishek on Jan 24, 2009 02:12 PM
In betting terms it would mean that if you bet Rs 7 on SM(2-7) and it wins, you will get Rs 9 back. While if you bet Rs 1 on Benjamin Button(4-1) and it wins than you get Rs 5 back! Basically chances of winning or SM is 7/9 while chances of BB is 1/5.
Re: oscar is a white award
by dinesh on Jan 24, 2009 04:22 PM
Well said we dont have to worry about getting oscar or getting recognition from the west in fact we dont want indian movies to be sent to oscar!!
Re: Re: Re: oscar is a white award
by Shri Hegde on Jan 24, 2009 04:54 PM
Agree! Lets have Bhaskar awards which should be the best recognition for all the Indian regional moves. Remember Indian movie business and follower ship is so huge it can't be filled within Oscar categories. We can have best each language film awards, then best south, west, north, east, etc awards. Thats true reflection of our cinema.
Re: Re: oscar is a white award
by Shri Hegde on Jan 24, 2009 04:54 PM
Agree! Let's have Bhaskar awards which should be the best recognition for all the Indian regional moves. Remember Indian movie business and follower ship is so huge it can't be filled within Oscar categories. We can have best each language film awards, then best south, west, north, east, etc awards. That's true reflection of our cinema.
Let us have no expectations. Oscar IS a big award, but there is a panel of judges and a month-long process to evaluate the nominations. As a fan of Rahman, I 'm happy that he bagged the Golden Globe and received 3 nominations, which itself is a history. Whatever happens on 21st Feb,Rahman, kudos to you and to your team. I'd like to thank Anandan Sivamani for the ecstatic beat specially in "O Saaya". To me, it's path-breaking music; music of a different kind. The "paper plane" song is a gem. So are the other instrumental pieces which make this album a "never-before" experience. I believe this is perhaps the best chance for Rahman to get an oscar. Let this be not the end, but the beginning of a new era of Indian music. I wish more and more new artists would be encouraged to experiment, bring up fresh ideas to the almost dry "present" Indian music scenario, where mostly "remixes" rule.
I loved the movie but ...I watched it among non-Indians, after the movie there was applause and I heard someone say, great movie but Gawd what a nasty & dirty country, I pity those people.
Now, should I laugh at their ignorance or should I think that this movie just reaffirms the west's imagination about India>?
Re: good or bad
by Sai Prakash on Jan 24, 2009 10:35 AM
I feel we should get out of the complex with regard to the Western, developed countries. WHY should we prove or convince the West that we are indeed not as bad as they think we are. India has no need to prove itself to anybody!! Just like they have pre conceived notions about us, we have the same about them. So, NO SWEAT!!
Re: good or bad
by Sailesh Tyagi on Jan 24, 2009 02:05 AM
I'm not so sure if this is really is really a great movie. It appeared more like an average masalla movie with some good direction. A fine actor like Irfan is completely wasted in the movie. Regarding western's impression about India that should not be a big issue since countries like US also has very poor places. Recent Mumbai attacks have shown the affluent side of the country as well I mean the pictures of Taj hotel were shown regulalrly for 6-7 days. Those images have more lasting impact rather than a movie like this that the mainstream public in western countries has not really seen
Re: Re: good or bad
by Sai Prakash on Jan 24, 2009 10:38 AM
Agree with you Sailesh! Its just a trend like it happened when Indian women were always winning the Beauty contests. Now, the trend is INDIAN, so everything Indian will be lapped up and I feel it is only a marketing strategy.
I have not seen Slumdog but I agree with your opinion.
I feel movies like Guru, Black or even The Last Lear must be better.
Gem of a movie. Excellent direction and fine performances by all the actors including the slum children. I would like the group to perform the dance number Jai Ho at the Oscars. The lead actors along with the slum actors and Bollywood dancers should recreate the dance number on stage at the Oscars with a Railway Platform setting as was in the film. I believe that all numbers nominated are performed live at the Oscars. What better way than than this opportunity to showcase our Bollywood dancing to North American audiences ? They may pick up the moves after watching the dance at the Oscars.
Re: Crown.
by flyoff on Jan 24, 2009 06:33 AM
Wow! I like your sense of humor but it also does bring out your hatred for whatever AB does - on par with the media - whether he sacrifices goat's balls for the deity or donates diamonds is his prerogative; do not make him an idol - he is an actor par excellence and let us leave it at that
Re: Re: Crown.
by Kishenchand Mishra on Jan 24, 2009 08:25 PM
Bachchan's jealousy knows no bounds. Since you yourself say that he is no role model, what is your problem? Regards his acting, the less said the better. even in real life, he was unsuccessful in stealing farmland. Not everybody can support cheap thieves like Bachchan. The only thing I can say is "birds of a feather flock together".
Re: best film is benjamin button
by vidhya shankar on Jan 24, 2009 11:14 AM
Benjamin Button is a ridiculous film and I wonder how it got 13 nomination for only Americans can make films out of such rubbish stories.
Equally ordinary is Slumdog just because it is directed by a British. The bollywood style dance at the end of the film is horrible and that song won an Oscar nomination. How terrible. Latika escapes from her husband and rejoins with her childhood boyfriend. There starts a group dance which got an Oscar nomination.
Oscar awards were created to promote rubbish American films.
