The trailer for the biopic on the life of Indian mathematician S. Ramanujan released recently.
The movie is slated to release in April 2016 and I am eagerly awaiting this one.
We have such great stories in India, unfortunately the storytellers here fail to take notice. All they come up with is this:
and this
It's strange how Hollywood directors can make excellent movies on the simplest of plots (Bridge of Spies for example) and we screw up the best of plots (Attacks of 26/11 for example)! It's a pity that no GOOD filmmaker has thought about a 26/11 movie yet (RGV has, but then he no longer comes in the good filmmaker category after the Aag debacle). Movies like Neerja and Airlift are a welcome change in this respect, but they aren't even close to what Hollywood does. Lots of efforts goes into the execution and they are honest to the topic. Indian movies invariably end up adding that "senti" or "common man" element to most films to get the sympathy of the audience,
It's high time that Indian film makers realize that the audiences are ain't as dumb as they think. There are exceptions though and a large section of the audience wants those kind of Masala movies. Probably that's why a Bhai film crosses 300 crores and movies like Titli, Masaan and Aligarh fail to get what they deserve. Fortunately in recent times , filmmakers are taking those kinds of risks. There are so many unexplored and 'film'worthy stories in India, for eg Manjhi. No-one knew what Dashrath Manjhi did in the the remote village of Gehlaur before the film released . No-one knew about soldier/athlete turned dacoit Paan Singh Tomar before Tigmanshu Dhulia decided depict his story on the silver screen. We need more such biopics. Unfortunately these films get sidelined and all they end up getting a 'critical acclaim'. For eg. This year the Filmfare award for best debut went to Sooraj Pancholi for Hero. Its ridiculous that he ended up winning despite the likes of Vicky Kaushal (Masaan) and Shashank Arora (Titli) being in competition. If you haven't watched any of aforementioned movies or even heard about them, you need to head to the nearest DVD store (or your favourite torrent website, which 99% will end up doing) and watch them ASAP (except Hero of course. If you watch that movie , I would not be responsible to the brain damage you suffer hearing Athiya Shetty mutter out her lines.)
I can either rant about the sorry scripts that we come up with (Kick, Dabbang, Dilwale, and so on and so forth) or be happy about the welcome change that is coming up. I choose the latter! Hopefully a few years down the line, these will be the "mainstream films" and outnumber the keep-your-brain-at-home movies that Bollywood is so used to. Hoping that Khan-o-philia would be a disease of the past and we immunize ourselves with the Nawaz/Kashyap vaccine!
P.S. I know the last line was lame but then, I couldn't come up with something good to counter Khan-o-philia. Apologies to the miniscule number of people (:Read 2) who are going end up reading this blogpost.
