Of 'Movies' and their 'Stars'....

Inspite being bitten by the ‘movie’ bug quite late…ive nevertheless seem to have made it in the who’s who of movie watchers in my circle. Ive tried my hands or shall I say eyes at almost everything I could lay my hands on..from the very cheesy Rajnikant and Chiranjeevi movies to the most ‘niche’ ones like the Quentin Tarantino or Shyam Benegal films.

“Some movies are to be tasted, some are to be bitten and some movies are to be chewed and digested” says yours truly when it comes to watching them. Theres so many movies around that you will probably die before you run out of watching movies churned out from Bollywood, Hollywood or South Indian Cinema every year.

But one thing that unites all of these movies is crap. There is crap in bollywood, there is crap in south Indian cinema and (yes my angrez loving friends) there is crap in Hollywood too.

You find movies which are poorly made, have no semblance of a story or a backdrop, have actors look like fools, pathetic comedy, even more pathetic melodrama and the worst climaxes. And yet some of these movies end up recovering their money or worse, becoming hits.

Ive watched probably every Akshay Kumar film since I joined my job. Each and every one of those movies had all the above characteristics and yet the truth is Akshay Kumar is now one of the highest tax payers in the country, is being pursued by every major director for his film. The same goes for the Rakesh Roshan films since Koyla. Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai, Koi Mil Gaya, Krrrrrrriiiiisssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhh (pun absolutely intended!!) or the most recent form of torture he invented, Kites. These movies had no good stories to tell, not one of them had decent songs save KNPH and all of these movies had fiascoes for climaxes.


This takes even a more serious turn when it comes to Hollywood. Avatar, now officially the biggest grosser ever had nothing going on for it on the story front. All it had was the visual effects. I sometimes feel why do actors get paid so much if the real ‘hero’ of the movie was the VFX guy!!

Nagesh Kukunoor (the guy who made Hyderabad Blues) once commented at a famous award show, “We have a 1000 million people here in India, there is no need to look west for stories”. Yet all we have to offer to our people is bull dung like “De Dana Dan”, “Singh is Kinnnnnng”, “Chandni Chowk to China”, “Om Shanti Om”?

Of Indian actors and actresses (nay they are not actors, they’re just ‘stars’) the less said the better, we have idiotic looking people like uday chopra, jackieeee bhagnani, Harman baweja, Twinkle Khanna, Sameera Reddy becoming stars. There is nothing these people can do save show off their six pack abs or ignorant smiles. Imagine this, Aishwarya Rai, with a false American twang, with a face that could well be called a doll's for the fact that it can display no emotion and B grade Jag Mundhra type films to show for her Hollywood 'career' is the face of Indian Cinema , even India itself to the world. Guys! She’s just that : a face. An expressionless, false but nonetheless beautiful face.


The worst of all are us, the people who watch these movies and help people like Akshay Kumar become highest tax payers or an unknown entity called Barbara Mori to become a household name.

People! Grow up! There are people for whom movie making is a passion and they make good movies but are not able to recover their money just because they don’t have a starcast or are not able to market the movie well or plainly cannot include songs in them!!

Movie making is supposed to be an art! Acting, Music, Lyrics etc are all contributors to each movie. Let the purity of the art remain so and not let it become a business people like the ones cursed above have made it out to be.


I melain berio le.