Indian Blu-rays?

[zsultan]

Howz the quality of Heyy babyy blu ray? just got my new blu ray player.

Thanks

[Mughi]

Originally Posted by Teabaggins

it's ok, I'm a "bhai" so it's not a racist comment. my dad had dinner at Javed Akhtar's home a few days ago, they have known each other since they were children. my parents are leaving mumbai this week for good.

Whatever turns you on. Me, I've been bored to tears by the static, shallow, pretentious, noisy, monotonous, self-important crap that Hollywood's been coughing up for nearly 20 years now.

[Teabaggins]

shallow? like bollywood movies are so deep in general. thanks for the lolz

[syncguy]

Originally Posted by zsultan

Howz the quality of Heyy babyy blu ray? just got my new blu ray player.

Thanks

Heyy Babyy transfer/blu-ray is not bad at all. But it is not in the excellent category as OSO and Saawariya. It is a reasonable blu-ray transfer. I have seen many Hollywood transfers worse than Heyy Babyy.

[syncguy]

Originally Posted by Teabaggins

shallow? like bollywood movies are so deep in general. thanks for the lolz

Many people love Bollywood mainly because of the Bollywood's expert presentation of emotions and the capability of emotional engagement of the viewer which Hollywood cannot match. Due to this reason there are many people who watch Bollywood more than Hollywood (outside India).

Strengths and weaknesses apply to both Hollywood as well as Bollywood.

[Teabaggins]

do you guys think classics like Pathar Panchali will ever make it to bluray and would it make them any better?

I know something like Shatranj Ke Khiladi aka The Chess Players would definitely benefit from the transfer.

[mhafner]

Originally Posted by azune

That's my opinion only... the songs are nice and the film is well filmed.
I believe a popular hindi movie website has similar thoughts to my own.. so I can't be too far off what the movie journalists are thinking?!
http://www.apunkachoice.com/dyn/movi...ya-review.html

The film was not much appreciated and your opinion is the majority opinion.

[Mughi]

Originally Posted by syncguy

Many people love Bollywood mainly because of the Bollywood's expert presentation of emotions and the capability of emotional engagement of the viewer which Hollywood cannot match. Due to this reason there are many people who watch Bollywood more than Hollywood (outside India).

It does seem like a lot of kids these days can't muster up much emotional response beyond the stilted bombast of Peter Jackson or the creepy infantilism of Tim Burton.

[GoodToGo]

Jodhaa Akbar has been up for pre order on Amazon France website for some time now.

[syncguy]

Originally Posted by GoodToGo

Jodhaa Akbar has been up for pre order on Amazon France website for some time now.

Not sure whether it would be released with English subtitles?

[azune]

Originally Posted by GoodToGo

Jodhaa Akbar has been up for pre order on Amazon France website for some time now.

I don't understand the logic... Allowing Amazon France to start getting pre-orders of this movie, yet one of their biggest audiences is in the UK outside of India.. so why isn't it on Amazon.co.uk??! (No offense to the French/Bollywood market)

Bit of a joke this blu-ray release schedule for bollywood movies.

[Teabaggins]

Originally Posted by syncguy

Many people love Bollywood mainly because of the Bollywood's expert presentation of emotions and the capability of emotional engagement of the viewer which Hollywood cannot match. Due to this reason there are many people who watch Bollywood more than Hollywood (outside India).

Strengths and weaknesses apply to both Hollywood as well as Bollywood.

watch "Shot In Bombay" and then talk to me about "expert presentation".... they can't even get their actors on the set on time. The director has little or no power, he's just trying to get the movie finished as soon as possible. every take to him is "mind blowing" in order to feed the superstars ego.

As far as "emotional engagement of the viewer" goes that is because 95% of the viewers are poverty stricken people who go to the movies to watch the "flash and dhamaka" to escape their own difficult lives. they don't want art, they want to escape and that is all.

I been going to Mumbai for years on end and my parents just left it so I know about it from personal experience.

the actors don't even know the script because they are usually filming 3 or 4 movies at the same time and run from one set to the next. did you know Saif Ali Khan hired a helicopter so he could get from one set to the next as quickly as possible?

this is not a criticism, it's just the way things are there.

I wish some good indian classics by masters like Satyajit Ray were released on BD so the world could be exposed to the beauty of true Indian cinema and not just the "masala" of every other movie.

[syncguy]

Sivaji cover art:

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...68#post1325668

[Teabaggins]

for what he does..Rajnikanth is a genius. you can't stop watching him

[hchalla178]

Originally Posted by wjkoemar

ps. all the other anounced (EROS) releases are also still on pre-order;
-Omkara
-Salaam-E-Ishq: A Tribute To Love
-Taare Zameen Par
-U, Me Aur Hum

I will definetely buy "Taare Zameen Par". I wish they bring all the blockbuster catalog titles to Blu-ray.

[syncguy]

Heyy Babyy (Eros) blu-ray is listed in the upcoming releases section to be released on the 3rd Feb 09! Heyy Babyy was the first Bollywood blu-ray and it is out for about 10 months now.

It is an error that needs to be fixed and hope that there would be another Eros release on that date.

[Samour]

How about Sholay on Blu-ray.


" Basanti, In kutton ke saamne mat naachna!!!"

[Mughi]

Yash Raj has been totally mum about any video release of RAB NE BANA DI JODI...hopefully it will get the BD treatment.

[syncguy]

Villu blu-ray is out. This is the 2nd Tamil blu-ray (from Ayngaran) and the 6th Indian blu-ray. Thanks Ayngaran.

Staring: Vijay, Nayanthara, Vadivelu, Pragash Raj
Direction: Prabu Deva
Music : Devi Sri Prasad
Video: 1080 P High Definition 16X9/ 2.35:1 AVC:4
Audio: Tamil 5.1 Uncompressed (48 KHz/ 16bit) 6.4 Mbps
Subtitle: English
2nd Tamil original Blu Ray Disc

http://eshop.ayngaran.com/ww/product...c737123d4df68f

[syncguy]

The third Tamil blu-ray Billa is out from Ayngaran. Although specs doesn't indicate, it most likely has 5.1 Dolby Digital. This was the case for the previous blu-rays (from Ayngaran) Villu and Shivaji. The English subtitles are within the frame which supports flat-panel zoomers and CIH.

Staring: "Ultimate Star" Ajith, Nayanthara, Nameetha and others
Director: Vishnuwardan
Music: Yuvan Shankar
Produced: Ananda Pictures & Ayngaran International
Video: 1080 P High Definition 16X9/ 2.35:1 AVC:4
Audio: Tamil 5.1 Uncompressed (48 KHz/ 16bit) 6.4 Mbps
Subtitle: English
3RD Tamil original Blu Ray Disc

Ayngaran is really contributing to Indian blu-ray take-up. It is a shame that Bollywood is lagging behind, especially Yash Raj.

http://eshop.ayngaran.com/ww/product...56fa81bc2a621b