Reply To: FSM # 23: Let’s talk Bollywood, for crying out loud!
Somewhere in the 90s or early 2000 a friend of mine with whom I went to see movies at cinema more or less every week had a Bollywood phase and took me regularly to cinemas showing Bollywood films.
Two things I found interesting.
Apart from the singing and dancing there didn’t seem to be something like a Bollywood genre. Of course there were lots of family dramas, but also gangster movies, action movies, we once saw a kind of martial arts movie.
Second thing, you saw that these movies had a big production value, were produced with much effort. But as soon as the actors were supposed to do something apart from singing and dancing like playing football, playing an instrument or handling any kind of tool it looked like they did this for the first time in their life. They don’t seem to have coaches for such things to make it look real. Exception Was that fighting movie. That was quite good.
I don’t remember any of the movie titles apart from that super popular SOMETIMES HAPPY SOMETIMES SAD.
And I never paid much attention to the scores.
