COPY THAT...HOWZZZAT!

What’s original these days? Nothing really...take Bollywood for that matter! LIFTING, COPYING, INSPIRATION,REMAKE,PLAGIARISM or IMITATION (Yes in ALL CAPS) are all the same as far as Hindi films are concerned and yet we feel offended and find it derogatory if our industry is referred to as Bollywood, but we don’t give a damn or even seem to care the least if we are constantly lifting content for films from our Western counterparts...now that’s the limit! Where’s the quality and what’s original these days?? Take our shoddily edited and produced animation films,in terms of quality, storyboard and treatment....can we confidently compare it to an Avatar or a Toy Story? We talk of stars remuneration running into 15-20 crores per film (surely the budget of the film has to be even more!) and yet we we don’t have the budget to think out of the box in terms of originality be it in terms of our story, scripting, treatment and even our production values! Pity! And about the casting the less said the better! I will discuss more about it later in this article. By now you must be wondering where is my rambling in this month’s posting ultimately leading you too....Well let’s get back to the start of start.

THE INDIAN CONNECTION (the concluding part)

Hello Everybody,

How have you been??

Today I bring to you the concluding part of last week's posting on THE INDIAN CONNECTION. So, am back with the never ending list of people who somewhere have an Indian lineage behind them or some of our very own people from India have made it big or let's put it striving hard to make it big in the global arena in the area of performing arts....yes in films! I certainly appreciate their efforts which are praiseworthy....after all its not a rosy path to make your mark in a foreign soil....a new place, new set of people, diverse cultures, different work culture & ethics all of which bring in different set of challenges...and to start from there and to rise to great heights....is not a joke!!