Topic started by shwetha (@ 219.65.96.58) on Wed Jan 1 23:26:33 EST 2003.
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I feel the Hindi audience, these days, is totally tasteless...seeing the kind of movies made in bollywood! They seem so unbelievably idiotic. And the music...even worse!!! Even lagaan and devdas, i feel were not as great as they claimed they were. Definitely not Oscar caliber :O When Lagaan was nominated for Oscar... we had pop-ups on MSN saying "Ask Spielerg to watch Lagaan"!!!! I mean idhellam konjam over-aa therialay??!! All the Hindi movies ever have is standard-aa one family bzness and a wedding and a holiday some place like NZ, Swiss et al. Tamil movies are far far better in content and music and everything. What do u say?
Responses:
- From: kassillaa (@ 202.51.148.239)
on: Wed Jan 1 23:51:31 EST 2003
I agree with u Shwetha, but anyway Lagaan's Music was excellent coz of our ARR. TFM's music is way way ahead of Bollywood's. If there's onething that's better in Bollywood than Kollywood, that should be their Cinematography, I guess so.
- From: Pras (@ 24.156.157.186)
on: Thu Jan 2 00:02:07 EST 2003
Kannathil Muthamittal should have been picked as India's entry to this years Oscar. Its an Oscar calliber movie. I would rate that movie the best movie of last year from India. Devadas is just all glamour but with no substance.
- From: siva (@ 203.121.0.9)
on: Thu Jan 2 00:30:29 EST 2003
Kassillaa,
I still think southern cinematography is much better than in bollywood .... of course there are good cinematographers in bollywood who come up with good work e.g Kabir Lal to name one of them... but in south, there's many more good cinematography work done by lots of people like Santosh Sivan (www.santoshsivan.com) , p.c.sreeram, thirunavukarasu, rajiv menon, ravi k. chandran etc....
but sadly, too many masala and low quality movies from south makes it looks like southern industry has less good movies cinematographically.. but i still think southern industry has best cinematography...
- From: shwetha (@ 219.65.96.240)
on: Thu Jan 2 06:31:53 EST 2003
Yes kassilla... music was a great help for lagaan!Pras...i agree with u. If they gave Oscars for costumes and sets... Devdas wud ve probably been the best choice. There was absolutely nothing else in the movie. 'Dil Se' and 'Kuch kuch hota hai' was released around the same time. I cudn;t believe ppl prefering KKHH to Dil Se. Agreed Dil Se was not one of Maniratnam s best. But it was definitely BETTER than KKHH!!! Wot say?
- From: draj (@ 210.195.144.68)
on: Thu Jan 2 07:05:35 EST 2003
this is supposed to be forum to discuss bout music not cinema....
- From: shwetha (@ 61.11.77.152)
on: Thu Jan 2 08:26:02 EST 2003
draj...guess a lil change won;t hurt....would it? :-)
- From: Arun (@ 195.93.50.7)
on: Thu Jan 2 09:22:24 EST 2003
Please excuse my ignorance but what is Kollywood? Are all you people who leave messages here from india??? From reading the messages on this site, I am amazed by the great knowledge that people have of tamil film music. I am a tamilan from london, are there any other european tamilans out there? I am a regular watcher of tamil films. I think they are much better than the hindi films. The hindi films have such a basic typical story line - they are so boring and dragged on. I like some of the songs - it seems that hindi films just spend a lot of money on clothes, make up, studios etc to make a film look glamorous but the story lines are usually very predictable and dragged on. Tamil films have much better story lines and the songs are great 2. Anyone else agree??
- From: musicfanatic (@ 202.9.181.233)
on: Thu Jan 2 09:24:21 EST 2003
i feel that tamil film industrialists are not as heavily supported and backed by us as much as it is in the north...and i think that is the main reason for tamil movies not reaching far even though it some of th best scripts and music ever.....i guess we should support our film makers and musicians in a much much more bigger scale.....we have to prove to the world that tamil cinema is world class.....everybody agreeing with me???
- From: Sam (@ 208.134.115.240)
on: Thu Jan 2 15:48:31 EST 2003
bollywood productions are rich and sophisticated. kollywood cant afford nice clothes, good singers or good-looking actors. So.....don't even compare.
- From: peeps (@ 12.162.224.5)
on: Thu Jan 2 16:26:18 EST 2003
Sam,
Do you know that your days are counted in TFM DF?
All the best for getting blocked by the admin soon.
- From: Genius (@ 65.205.71.101)
on: Thu Jan 2 16:43:38 EST 2003
I totally support Kollywood by ordering a shoot at sight for Kathir, K. S. Ravikumar and T. Rajendhar and Deva.
- From: av (@ 132.216.68.125)
on: Thu Jan 2 19:01:32 EST 2003
This thread is utter crap!
- From: firewood (@ 205.188.208.37)
on: Thu Jan 2 19:16:07 EST 2003
burn the wood, please
- From: desi (@ 64.231.201.151)
on: Thu Jan 2 20:32:11 EST 2003
I used to be an avid watcher, and supporter of tamil films. Once I was introduced to hindi films I never turned back. They have soo much more substance to them, and are far more interesting to watch than tamil films, anyday. Tamil movies are sooo fake sometimes, it drives me crazy. I mean they think they're funny when they're not. BOLLYWOOD is the best!
- From: LM (@ 203.44.55.70)
on: Thu Jan 2 21:24:02 EST 2003
I think they both are different and beyond comparison and cater different audience. When for example an actress is depressed, she dances to a rhythmic number to express her emotions and hindi audience accept it where as in TF, its not the case. Having said that, if you really think about it, one would never dance to portray emotions when they are depressed.
- From: Pradeep R (@ 203.199.12.50)
on: Thu Jan 2 23:17:42 EST 2003
HIndi films pale in comparison to Tamil Films. There can be no doubt abt that. If only producers with as much money as hte HF guys landed up in TF, we wud be having more great films in TF.
HF is nothing but a copycat market. jus look at the releases of 2002 - almost every HF is a copy. If not from Hollywood, it is from Tamila nf Telugu films. U know, every movie of Govinda and David Dhawan is a scene by scene lift of some of the popular Tamil and Telugu comedies. An not a line is given in the credits. And David is touted as Director no.1!
Hindi films can be counted only for the glamour and the height of oomph they ooze. They get noticed jus becoz India's Hindi speaking populi outnumbers filmgoers of any other language.
There are good films here and there like Hindi parallel cinema and movies like THE legend of Bhagat Singh - but these are few and far between.
Tamil films are path-breaking, are technically wunderful. Choereography and cinematography - Hindi cinema is still in infancy if u count out the number of Southie technicians working in Bombay film industry. And Music - the less said the better. TF music is way ahead of HF music. We have got geniuses in our midst.
So do not speak of HF and TF in the same breath. It wud be be better to appreciate the good ones in both the languages
- From: Pradeep R (@ 203.199.12.50)
on: Thu Jan 2 23:20:33 EST 2003
HIndi films pale in comparison to Tamil Films. There can be no doubt abt that. If only producers with as much money as hte HF guys landed up in TF, we wud be having more great films in TF.
HF is nothing but a copycat market. Jus look at the releases of 2002 - almost every HF is a copy. If not from Hollywood, it is from Tamil and Telugu films. U know, every movie of Govinda and David Dhawan is a scene by scene lift of some of the popular Tamil and Telugu comedies. And not a line is given in the credits. And David is touted as Director no.1!
Hindi films can be counted only for the glamour and the height of oomph they ooze. They get noticed jus becoz India's Hindi speaking populi outnumbers filmgoers in any other language.
There are good films here and there like Hindi parallel cinema and movies like THE legend of Bhagat Singh - but these are few and far between.
Tamil films are path-breaking, are technically wunderful. Choereography and cinematography - Hindi cinema is still in infancy if u count out the number of Southie technicians working in Bombay film industry. And Music - the less said the better. TF music is way ahead of HF music. We have got geniuses in our midst.
So do not speak of HF and TF in the same breath. It wud be be better to appreciate the good ones in both the languages
- From: Pradeep R (@ 203.199.12.50)
on: Thu Jan 2 23:52:38 EST 2003
HIndi films pale in comparison to Tamil Films. There can be no doubt abt that. If only producers with as much money as hte HF guys landed up in TF, we wud be having more great films in TF.
HF is nothing but a copycat market. Jus look at the releases of 2002 - almost every HF is a copy. If not from Hollywood, it is from Tamil and Telugu films. U know, every movie of Govinda and David Dhawan is a scene by scene lift of some of the popular Tamil and Telugu comedies. And not a line is given in the credits. And David is touted as Director no.1!
Hindi films can be counted only for the glamour and the height of oomph they ooze. They get noticed jus becoz India's Hindi speaking populi outnumbers filmgoers in any other language.
There are good films here and there like Hindi parallel cinema and movies like THE legend of Bhagat Singh - but these are few and far between.
Tamil films are path-breaking, are technically wunderful. Choereography and cinematography - Hindi cinema is still in infancy if u count out the number of Southie technicians working in Bombay film industry. And Music - the less said the better. TF music is way ahead of HF music. We have got geniuses in our midst.
So do not speak of HF and TF in the same breath. It wud be be better to appreciate the good ones in both the languages
- From: Pradeep R (@ 203.199.12.50)
on: Thu Jan 2 23:53:55 EST 2003
Sorry for the multiple posts! there is a prob with my server
- From: shwetha (@ 61.11.80.217)
on: Fri Jan 3 03:35:45 EST 2003
desi... let s get one thing clear. Iam talking bout Hindi Films of the recent times!!! And if u find tamil films fake in comparison to hindi films (of these days) :O Im truly shocked!!! Well.. as u have said Hindi films are more 'interesting' to watch...guess it depends on what ur parameters for 'interest' are.
- From: shwetha (@ 61.11.80.217)
on: Fri Jan 3 03:37:07 EST 2003
sam.... ur post says it all. We know what the hindi audience looks for in their films ;-)
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