1/20/2004
The coming of age of Hindi movies???
The coming of age of Hindi movies???
Watched some good hindi movies lately. "jahnkar beats", "munnabhai MBBS" and "Mr.&Mrs. Iyer". As one of my friends mentioned looks like suddenly the movie directors have graduated to a whole different level. they are moving away from cliched story lines, showing that panche in handling the movie etc.
i want to say this has a lot to do with the last DVD that you and me rented from the neighbourhood indian grocery store. what are the chances that, that rented DVD was a pirated copy 1 in 10? 5 years back the VHS piracy was so rampant that i doubt if i ever saw even 1% original VHS. i think with the advent of this new trend there is more chance that the revenues trickle down to the right people, companies, directors etc.
Besides the over seas audience has become an important market for any movie release. This explains the trend in movies like "american chai, green card fever "
I am very encouraged with the trend. i hope we see more movies like Mr&Mrs. Iyer. this leads me to wonder would we have a paid site for hindi music downloads ever?? like the itunes music store? wishful thinking .....!!!!
i want to say this has a lot to do with the last DVD that you and me rented from the neighbourhood indian grocery store. what are the chances that, that rented DVD was a pirated copy 1 in 10? 5 years back the VHS piracy was so rampant that i doubt if i ever saw even 1% original VHS. i think with the advent of this new trend there is more chance that the revenues trickle down to the right people, companies, directors etc.
Besides the over seas audience has become an important market for any movie release. This explains the trend in movies like "american chai, green card fever "
I am very encouraged with the trend. i hope we see more movies like Mr&Mrs. Iyer. this leads me to wonder would we have a paid site for hindi music downloads ever?? like the itunes music store? wishful thinking .....!!!!
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