Bollywood And The 100cr Club

Watching Dhoom 3 got me thinking….

Either the film makers think they can get away by showing a movie which has the actors, location, songs, action and supposedly a story to make it work or think the audience won’t notice the sloppy story plot in the backdrop of what the movie offers.

The way one hears about the movie crossing the Rs. 300 crore in box office collections makes one really wonder if you would still call it a good movie given the pot holes in the story plot which looked as part of the crater from the moon.

Movies like these actually makes one wonder about the ride that the audiences are taken into that fails to give you the satisfaction and value for money. Hope you are not the one who bought the tickets at Rs. 900. My heart goes out for you…

When people buy movie tickets, they wish to be enthralled in a world of cinema that capture their imagination by surprise but leave them with the feeling of happiness, sad, humor and engaging the curiosity of their minds by deliberating over the movie while leaving the theatres and thereafter. 

A movie that stays with the audiences long after it’s moved away from the multiplexes for its story, picturization, dialogues or simply for its humor reminds one how good the movie was.

Sadly the recent spate of movies would hardly make any recollection down the years. Though there have been movies that break these barriers but they certainly are very few.

It seriously makes one wonder if enough attention is paid to the basic need of the movie that will draw attention of the audience if the story of the movie is given its space.

Remaking of hit or old movies is certainly not the way to go and will certainly not help sustain the hindi film industry in the long run.

A series of dabba movies will only make the audiences more choosy before deciding to buy a ticket to watch a movie.

Hope there is a change in the trend in the upcoming movies for this year.

The Year That Was

With each passing of the year one realizes how fast time flies by. Another year gone by and I am counting the days as the end of the year comes by.

The year marks a lot of personal highs and lows too. Work wise it’s good given that I am a recovering workaholic.

I still don’t get it when it comes to personal chores I am lazy and unwillingly to move but when it comes to work I will be following up for so many things giving people a hard time.

The learning has been tremendous both personally and professionally.

Change has been an endeavor of mine for a long time but it’s not easy to accommodate and adjust to change. It takes time and is definitely not easy.

Had my own goals which I followed to the din but now have given up on them and going with the flow of life. Living life as it comes. Understand that there is something called fate/karma. Que sera sera.

It’s when you start holding things too tightly to yourself that you forget what others have to give and things may not be as it seems. Letting go of fears and getting out of the comfort zone is to explore the side that one does not know about them.

As each year passes by, time goes by and we look back and wonder if things could have been different. Then again no one can change the past but only the present and the future.

So live wisely…