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Vitriol on Bollywood

Pouring Some Vitriol on Bollywood According to this story, only 4% of Bollywood movies are profitable. I'd say that's a percentage one too many, for the quality of movies they make Director Govind Nihalani (one of the few people I admire in Bollywood) claims Bollywood cannot make a Titanic or a Terminator. He forgets that you can put a stationary camera in front of a well-directed play of Tagore, Karnad, or Tendulkar, and we'd have a great Indian movie. The problems with bollywood are lack of fresh talent, nepotism, the mafia nexus, and most importantly, unwillingness to change. Every time I deplore Bollywood, some Indians come up to me and say, "Bollywood is not for you, it is for the poor of India who need to escape the misery of their life". These people somehow think they are intellectually superior to the poor. They somehow believe that the poor have no imagination or sensitivity or feelings. They think the poor have no intellect to understand complex plots, and no intellect to appreciate subtle beauty. My only purpose of criticizing Bollywood is to improve it. Search more blog entries on Bollywood Notes to Regular Readers January 2003 Newsletter is out to Friends of Kamat I have been planning to build a Timeline of Hinduism for a long time, and finally have a prototype going. Please let me know () of important omissions.  Kamat Blog Portal now imports pings from Blogger.com -- so if you have a blogger.com account, do sign up for their Public Listing option, so when you update your blog, it will reflect in Blog Portal as well. (Comments Disabled for Now. Sorry!) First Written: Thursday, January 16, 2003 Last Modified: 1/16/2003

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