Why the hell is Bollywood being called "Indian Cinema"? I protest. I shout the loudest I can -- India is NOT Bollywood. India is much more than that. Indian cinema is much MUCH much more than Bollywood. STOP calling Bollywood "Indian cinema".
I am not even getting into Bollywood representing Indian culture at the Commonwealth Games. But take at least the case of this annual extravaganza called the IIFA awards. It's supposedly the International "Indian Film" Academy. If it is truly Indian, then where the hell is other regional cinema? Where are Bengali films, where are Assamese films, where are Malayalam films? Priyadarshan picks a Malayalam film and does a Hindi remake of it, and lo and behold, it has become Indian cinema.
Bollywood is not India, and India is not Bollywood. I wish, I hope, hell I demand, that people stop calling the Bollywood dance and drama Indian cinema.
Huh.
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true... quite a shame that they've shut out south and in particular, tamil cinema, which i think is coming up with the most dynamic (okay, even if it's with nods to everything from tarantino to korean cinema) stuff in indian mainstream cinema, working well within the so-called "commercial" format.
there have been reports about mammootty pointing out the south-blackout issue at the awards... never quite a fan of his, but thought that was cool.
Grrrr!
Ditto
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Ah well... the perennial argument on something pretty depressing for a lot of really concerned movie watchers...
When will these dumb communities made of people who call themselves critics and movie-afficiandos stop showering undeserving praises and laurels on the crap which is dished out from Bollywood!!!???
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