Hollywood-Bollywood

Hollywood-Bollywood

How many have seen “Tees maar khan” where Akshaye khanna will be raving “Oscar..oscar..” that’s really hilarious. Remember when Govinda once said when he missed some local award that he would be winning Oscar, well entire India is waiting. Why, our own AP Akka: lakshmi Manchu said her goal is nothing but Oscar , immediately entire Andhra Pradesh roared with laughter. Like in tees maar khan. Oscar? Bas kar!!

Well every Indian associated with entertainment industry once in his life time might have fantasized holding Oscar statuette. Even Amir khan who is known for his reluctance for Indian awards made a queue at Academy awards functions with expectation of Oscar for his Lagaan. Well,that was stump out like we all know.

 

tom cruise doing item song in Tropic thunder

Now we have Guju film “Good Road” nominated for Oscars. What is the chance of getting an Oscar. I bet 99.9999% grand miss. But miracles do occur once in a blue moon. If Prez Obama can get Nobel for Peace( now dats a big puzzle, why did he get it ?), Indian film or say Bollywood might get one Oscar..or bigger miracle,Govinda might get one . Indias quest for oscar seems to be more like its quest for Olympic medal. Entire Indias Olympic medal tally ever since the inception would be 1/10^th of Chinese medals in single sport in single Olympics..Hilarious!!

Now I wonder, do we deserve a Oscar, esp for lopsided films that we dish out?  A learned person can easily say how 95% of our bollywood films are “inspired” from Hollywood and even Korean films. Now imagine bollywood getting depressed when BLACK and Burfi  films of Rani mukerji and Ranbir were not included for Oscars, after all both were inspired by their Hollywood counterparts. To extent I read somewhere even our iconic film Sholay was inspired by some Phoren philim. Well I don’t know

Look at our actors. All stars . but not Actors. All histrionics. But no substance. We boast of Amitabh bachan, Amir khan, SRK, etc etc . I don’t question their capabilities. But still , they are more Stars than actors. Ok, My definition of actor is Story and character in the story. Now how best can a actor become the Character is all the Acting about. Close your eyes and hear to film, you can easily say who is the actor and what role is he playing and even story would be predictable. 

I was recently watching TROPIC THUNDER, till the very end I didn’t know there was a character in the film which was played by Tom Cruise. Only in end when the credits got rolled out, I began to see some features and acting style of tom cruise in the said character. Watch Di Caprio in films like, Body of Lies, Blood Diamond, Departed (btw this one is inspired by oriental film), Inception, Titanic (well Titanicship is the star in the film haaa). His acting style is dictated by story of film unlike in Bollywood its more Star who defines the film( can u imagine Rajinikanth, Balaya,Ranbir in negative shade giving Positive hero role to other? No way it would be like Mallika sherawat dressed in total saree from beginning to end of film. That’s Apocalypse buddies )

RGV says it would take 100 more years before Indian cinema touches Oscar standards. Well I am not so negative. Its just industry caters to populace tastes and refuses to break the tempo. That’s understandable. Still we have directors like Shankar, Mani shankar, Neelakanta ,RGV,you and me. Somehow we can see that Tamil film industry is centre of original creativity in entire India.

The best actor in my opinion probably is not Rajini or Ranbir or Amitabh or bunch of below 5 feet Khans. Its Vikram of Tamil industry. Anyone who has seen his film Aparichitudu , Shivaputrudu, Seshu etc will no doubt will vouch that he is Indias best actor. In Aparachitudu( Annian in tamil) where he plays 3 distinct and  drastically  separate characters in one fluid motion is just unbeatable.(watch that intense action on youtube buddies.its worth) As an ignorant undertaker in Shivaputrudu (Anbe Shivam in tamil) where he doesn’t utter a single word all through film yet makes a deep impact on viewers or Seshu the film copied by Salman in Tere Naam, all his roles were world class.

So next time, India wishes for an Oscar, it shoud see beyond Hindi and north Indian films and give a peek into south or especially Tamil Industry, that’s where the real creative work is being carried out.

Till then..Oscar???..Bas kar!!! Haaa

Vikram in Aparachitudu

Public Disclaimer: This author is just like any common man who is more an arm chair activist who hardly watches any films except for his fav star the SRK..he has watched most of his films (meaning only 3 or 4 ..swades, don,veerzaara and don’t ask him if he had seen Kabhi alvida na kehna. He goes rabid). No action. Only complaints. Once one hyper famous hindi film critic was fed up with quality of films and decided to take up Directing world class Indian cinema and ended up making most disastrous film of century. Empty vessels ….u can understand ..dont u ?