Is bollywood serious about blu-ray???

[divyansh]

Originally Posted by toddly6666

Hi Divyansh, sorry..I didn't see your response in the other thread til today. Check it out. I gave you a long explanation!

ok dude.....ive read it....its ok...but still whatever you say...there still is some difference.....maybe only 19-20 for you and 40-60 for me.....but still there is......we people even enjoy movies like singh is kinng.....only for one time....i laughed and lauged and enjoyed the movie a lot......if you would have asked me when i came out of theater i would have rated it 4.5/5...beacuse it was lot of entertainment with use of punjabi language...slangs and other things which only indians and punjabis would relate to...but now when i see the movie i find many belmishes in the story....i dont laugh on it anymore....the plot is not interesting any more.....this is only beacuse ive enjoyed it once and ill rate the movie 2.5/5 now.....and the difference comes here.....you would notice the difference.....you on your first watch will see all those plot holes blemishes etc and youll try to find a good story or acting from it and youll not enjoy that local punjabi comedy with your english sub titles and ull say the movie is uttter crap....why the hell these idiots made it such a huge hit.....NOW DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE.....i also at the end of post will say movie was no where good....but because of me being an indian and punjabi.....it worked big time for me once.....it was so funny i was litrally in tears laughing and i didnt notced any thing else....and why me ....the whole croud at wave cinemas raja garden new delhi....!

[toddly6666]

Originally Posted by divyansh

....it was so funny i was litrally in tears laughing and i didnt notced any thing else....and why me ....the whole croud at wave cinemas raja garden new delhi....!

And your point reminds me of another point - movies are most enjoyed with an audience. A bad movie or a comedy is certainly better in the theater with an audience rather than watching it at home by oneself (comedies are always better with other people watching). This great thing about watching a Bollywood movie in the theater is that it's a positive exciting event due to the enthusiasm of the audience. In the USA, the enthusiasm of watching a film in the theater has been clouded by worrying about paying a fortune for a ticket, getting seat kicked, people talking, home theaters being better than regular theaters, paying so much money for junk food, etc.

I had the same experience as you with comedies like Hangover, Paul, and Bridesmaids. I loved these comedies in the theater, but once I bought the DVD of Hangover, I didnt think it was as funny playing it for the second time in my house. I have now learned to control myself from buying comedies on bluray/dvd because most comedies are not so good the next time watching. The same goes for thrillers (Seven, Orphan, The Sixth Sense). These movies are pointless to buy on home video because they are both in genres that are best enjoyed the first time. I only buy comedies on bluray if they are really, really special to me.

But back to being disapppinted with Bollywood releases. Hypothetically, if I was some famous Indian film historian/critic and I just bought a blu-ray player, I would then proceed to research the blu-rays from India. I would discover that there are around 100 blu-rays that been made from Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu-speaking India, and that India has been producing blu-rays for the past 4 years. I would think, "hmmm, that's an impressive bluray catalog - I bet films of Mani Ratnam, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Satyajit Ray, Ram Gopla Verma, and Yash Chopra films look wonderful remastered onto bluray." And then I would scroll down the list of all the existing Indian blurays...."Hey Babyy, Dostana, Kites....hmmmm, okay, Paa, Fashion, Orange, Blue...what the? Where are the great films? Is this the correct list?"

[divyansh]

Originally Posted by toddly6666

And your point reminds me of another point - movies are most enjoyed with an audience. A bad movie or a comedy is certainly better in the theater with an audience rather than watching it at home by oneself (comedies are always better with other people watching). This great thing about watching a Bollywood movie in the theater is that it's a positive exciting event due to the enthusiasm of the audience. In the USA, the enthusiasm of watching a film in the theater has been clouded by worrying about paying a fortune for a ticket, getting seat kicked, people talking, home theaters being better than regular theaters, paying so much money for junk food, etc.

I had the same experience as you with comedies like Hangover, Paul, and Bridesmaids. I loved these comedies in the theater, but once I bought the DVD of Hangover, I didnt think it was as funny playing it for the second time in my house. I have now learned to control myself from buying comedies on bluray/dvd because most comedies are not so good the next time watching. The same goes for thrillers (Seven, Orphan, The Sixth Sense). These movies are pointless to buy on home video because they are both in genres that are best enjoyed the first time. I only buy comedies on bluray if they are really, really special to me.

But back to being disapppinted with Bollywood releases. Hypothetically, if I was some famous Indian film historian/critic and I just bought a blu-ray player, I would then proceed to research the blu-rays from India. I would discover that there are around 100 blu-rays that been made from Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu-speaking India, and that India has been producing blu-rays for the past 4 years. I would think, "hmmm, that's an impressive bluray catalog - I bet films of Mani Ratnam, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Satyajit Ray, Ram Gopla Verma, and Yash Chopra films look wonderful remastered onto bluray." And then I would scroll down the list of all the existing Indian blurays...."Hey Babyy, Dostana, Kites....hmmmm, okay, Paa, Fashion, Orange, Blue...what the? Where are the great films? Is this the correct list?"

finally a +1 from my side...
and yes you are right this time BUT dostana was pretty good movie to me ...but only a one time watch because of good music background score....ok script and fair performances........the same goes for heyy babyy.....some portions were very good some didnt worked....but fashion i would like to single out was not such a bad movie....it was quite good both performance wise and music and background score wise....(i admit....iam a salim sulaiman fan...btw have you watched SRK's rab ne bana di jodi by adi chopra......it was quite enjoyble with excellent music and good performance by srk and PQ was also fantastic!!)