Die Hard 4.0, Spiderman 3 and the Pirates of the Caribbean
Posted on July 7, 2007
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Well I think Indians are now realizing the worth of the Hollywood flicks that are generated and thrust upon us year on year without the real essence of thoughtful cinema. This year, we have received these great and super duper biggies from Hollywood but they have all met with the same response as with the Indian biggies from Bollywood. Be it a Amitabh Bachchan starrer (Aloo Bachchan as I fondly call him for his stupendous presence in all forms of Indian media) or any of those handsome Khan’s that are ruling the crown princely state of Bollywood (Shahrukh, Aamir, Salman) or the heavenly chiselled looks guy, Hrithik Roshan. Well in this list I think it would be reasonable to add Abhishek Bachchan too since with so much of push that he has, he has also started getting accepted as a hero with a lot of numbers looking up to him as the son of Uttar Pradesh. Now with Behenji in the reins of U.P. in India and Shri Mulayam Singh and Amar Singh ji out, I really don’t know if this prodigal son would take the flight from Mumbai to Lucknow for some time to come. I would be happy if he does since I also have roots in Muzzafarnagar and Saharanpur. Well, we deviated I guess and that is what happens when we talk of Amitabh.
Ok so the point that I was trying to make here was that neither did a Bruce Willis starrer or a Capt Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp), Keira Knightley (Elizabeth Swann) could salvage something for the rather poor run of the box office in India. It was only the Spiderman with his monkey, sorry Spider tricks that some magic could be worked up which kept up the cash registers. So our total industry seems to be thankful to Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst (Mary Jane) for giving us decent entertainment in the first half of the year.
Talking of Indian films that we had on our screen in the first half was the definitive good flick Guru, which had the pretty Aishwarya Rai Bachchan on screen with her hubby enacting the Dhirubhai Ambani story. I really don’t know if it’s a real life story but a lot of kudos to the great legend of Reliance Industries to show the world how with hard work and perseverance, history can be written. Ok I’m tending to get carried away too much today. The other flicks that are worth mentioning here are Cheeni Kum and Nishabd of Sh. Aloo Bachchan which are in my opinion having a storyline that is pretty pretty rare in the real life and were akin to his previous big mega flops like Shahenshah and Toofan like movies. Good that they were lost in the Toofan of these movies. The guy to watch out now is Himesh Reshammiya now who is on top of the world with his Aap ka suroor.
The one good Hindi film that I thought would do well was Namaste London with the pretty Katrina Kaif and comedy king Akshay Kumar. It had a nice patriotic story too which always gets me going to show to the Western World that India is also making some progress and is graduating from the snake charmer days and cows on the roads scenario. But even if we try and project this image, we still find that development is not so much on the fast track. If we say that Gurgaon has so many flyovers today and India is developed, please go to Beijing where you will only travel on flyovers and descend only when your destination has come.
Go to any of these South Asian countries like Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and you will realise that our development is still a miniscule percentage of the region’s overall growth rate, what to talk about the Western World. The only thing that we are really still good at is what we have been doing for ever, increasing our population.
Well let’s hope that now with the new movies to come we would be more entertained and not cursing the high cost of the multiplex ticket that we purchased and did not get enough from the flick as we walk down the stairs.
Cheers and Ciao,
Ragini
ragini@indiantvtoday.com
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