http://desicritics.org/ Superior South Asian bloggers on Culture, Media, Politics, Sport, Business, and Technology. en Copyright 2006 by the authors Sun, 8 Mar 2009 21:46:03 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss BC custom software http://desicritics.org/2006/09/25/005829.php#comment-359050 Dies ist ein großer Ort. Ich möchte hier noch einmal. 359050@desicritics.org Sun, 8 Mar 2009 21:46:03 EDT http://desicritics.org/2006/09/25/005829.php#comment-359049 Dies ist ein großer Ort. Ich möchte hier noch einmal. 359049@desicritics.org Sun, 8 Mar 2009 21:45:21 EDT http://desicritics.org/2006/09/25/005829.php#comment-22856 a while ago i came across this interview of shahrukh khan's in which he said that what did it matter that india made so many movies a year when its distribution network for its biggest movies wasnt even equal to half that for an average hollywood one? i think he was talking about veer zara which was then generating much comment for "flooding the market" with over 700 prints and he gave stats, like, the average hollywood movie releases 1500 prints or something. anyway, i think bollywood is slowly waking up to the fact that there might be people out there who'd like to see more of their cinema but the problem is they like to generalize, so if you get another theatre or two in socal they might just be shrines to the khans or hrithik roshan or something. i was shocked when i found out that the only theatre showing indian movies [hindi only] in NEW YORK for chrissakes was the tiny Imaginasian. [the extremely well hidden loewe's state is no more] it is another matter that when i thoroughly enjoyed watching Omkara there with a housefull that really got the movie. coming back to the "lil movie" though, its not a case of a shoddy international network. there are tons of smaller centres in India itself, especially in the south, where movies like KKG or Dor cannot get releases coz the distributors assume that no one is interested. this in spite of the fact that more and more people are watching hindi movies. maybe yashraj jas the right idea and studios ought to go in for distribution. 22856@desicritics.org Mon, 25 Sep 2006 02:28:02 EDT