Bollywood anyone?

[dXTC]

For those of you who like a little rock'em sock'em action with your light-hearted musical numbers, check out Endhiran (The Robot, also sometimes spelled Enthiran in Western text). Possibly the most expensive Indian film to date, it's a blend of sci-fi, Terminator vs. The Matrix style action and special effects, with Aishwarya Rai as the requisite eye candy.

This compilation of key action scenes from the movie was bada** enough to get featured on YouTube's notorious viral-video reviewer, Equals Three.

My fave point of the above clip is at 1:52, when the robot turns the guns on the army squadron and pulls an Ahnold -- in English, even. "Heh heh. Happy Diwali, folks!"

 

[firestarter]

^^^ Wow, that's cool.

They've out John Woo'd John Woo!

 

[Pink∆Floyd]

crap

Who would watch that crap?

It's just a rip-off compilation of our movies

 

[Tsuchiya]

^Pink∆Floyd, true it doesn't look fantastic but it's kind of a big deal for Bollywood I guess. "Modern" action films are quite rare.

Anyway I love film and come from an Indian background so I've encountered my fair share of Bollywood over the years

The atmosphere to them is just...different. They are generally a lot of fun and despite being incredibly long (films often come complete with an intermission ) I do enjoy the occasional film.

Looking for a good drama, anything new people can recommend? Preferably without Shah Rukh Khan if possible. Nowadays he is like Samuel L. Jackson. Decent actor but every role is essentially him playing himself

 

[blueroom]

How about Indian Superman
http://www.stomptokyo.com/movies/s/superman-indian.html

Lots of movie clips on YouTube.

 

[obeygiant]

youtube scene

i thought that was hilarious.

 

[dXTC]

Who would watch that crap?

It's just a rip-off compilation of our movies

To our jaded moviegoing eyes, yes, much of the action and effects look rather outdated. But in India, Endhiran was a sensation; Rajinikanth, the actor who starred as the robot and its creator, has become the Chuck Norris of India, replete with his own variations of Chuck Norris/Mr. T jokes:

• Rajinikanth can squeeze a banana and get mango juice.
• Rajinikanth knows the last digit of pi.
• Despite rumors to the contrary, Rajinikanth doesn't fly. He jumps, then makes the laws of gravity wait until he's ready.
• So forth and so on...

 

[Pink∆Floyd]

^Pink∆Floyd, true it doesn't look fantastic but it's kind of a big deal for Bollywood I guess. "Modern" action films are quite rare.

Anyway I love film and come from an Indian background so I've encountered my fair share of Bollywood over the years

The atmosphere to them is just...different. They are generally a lot of fun and despite being incredibly long (films often come complete with an intermission ) I do enjoy the occasional film.

Looking for a good drama, anything new people can recommend? Preferably without Shah Rukh Khan if possible. Nowadays he is like Samuel L. Jackson. Decent actor but every role is essentially him playing himself

To our jaded moviegoing eyes, yes, much of the action and effects look rather outdated. But in India, Endhiran was a sensation; Rajinikanth, the actor who starred as the robot and its creator, has become the Chuck Norris of India, replete with his own variations of Chuck Norris/Mr. T jokes:

• Rajinikanth can squeeze a banana and get mango juice.
• Rajinikanth knows the last digit of pi.
• Despite rumors to the contrary, Rajinikanth doesn't fly. He jumps, then makes the laws of gravity wait until he's ready.
• So forth and so on...

I see...

Different culture to each his own

 

[mkrishnan]

According to Wikipedia, Bollywood refers to the Hindia film industry. Since Alluda Majaka is Telegu, I suppose it's not Bollywood. But I've never seen an Indian film without singing in it!

There are a few, but it's rare!

Yes, there is a fair amount of filmmaking outside the Hindi part of India -- Tamil movies from Chennai (where my parents are from) and some other regions have a reputation of being more art-house compared to the big-budget, mainstream films coming out of Bollywood.

I don't watch them every weekend, but we actually watched Udaan and Monsoon Wedding (neither of which were really musicals, although Monsoon Wedding had some dancing in it) this weekend, and they were both enjoyable and thought provoking (particularly Udaan).

For more serious Indian film, Deepa Mehta is brilliant -- Water was amazing.

 

[firestarter]

Who would watch that crap?

It's just a rip-off compilation of our movies

You really need to grow up and stop assuming that 'yeah USA is the best'.

A lot of US movies are a rip-off of Asian cinema. The Matrix? Both the wire work and the 'bullet time' sequences had been used in Hong Kong action movies for years. Check out John Woo's "Hard Boiled" - a much better movie shot 7 years earlier.

 

[Pink∆Floyd]

You really need to grow up and stop assuming that 'yeah USA is the best'.

A lot of US movies are a rip-off of Asian cinema. The Matrix? Both the wire work and the 'bullet time' sequences had been used in Hong Kong action movies for years. Check out John Woo's "Hard Boiled" - a much better movie shot 7 years earlier.

I don't assume that...maybe...you need to grow up and stop assuming what you think others assume...

The Matrix, ok that's one movie, I don't see the "a lot"

 

[firestarter]

I don't assume that...maybe...you need to grow up and stop assuming what you think others assume...

Sorry, but rubbishing other people's cultures just makes you look very ignorant.

Have you seen any foreign language movies, or are you closed-minded to that type of thing?

The Matrix, ok that's one movie, I don't see the "a lot"

The Matrix is one of a whole genre of movies that have taken these styles from Asian film.

Horror is another genre that has borrowed heavily (Ring, Dark Water)

Even American classics like Westerns (The Magnificent Seven) are based on the Japanese movies of Kurosawa.

 

[jal97jal]

I don't care for Bollywood movies.

 

[mkrishnan]

Even American classics like Westerns (The Magnificent Seven) are based on the Japanese movies of Kurosawa.

And Bonanza arose from that era of the Magnificent Seven, and bonanza begat old Battlestar Galactica with Dirk Benedict in it and the weird 70s ending with the flower children, and old Battlestar Galactica begat new Battlestar Galactica, which is maybe one of the best things on TV in the last decade. So really, Akira Kurosawa is responsible for Kara Thrace, no?