Desicritics Comments on India Nominates Eklavya To Oscars, Sparks Fly

Comment by Raj

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 02:23:27 EDT

"Generally most Bollywood movies are not worth watching on the big screen." I congratulate Deepti for that excellent observation. I like to add that most of the Bollywood, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada movies dubbed as hits are just third-rate movies that will never pass the first stage, if it would have been some other country. The scripts do not have any logic. There is nothing called acting, except bombastic dialogues and shouting that includes some crude jokes unfit for cultured people. Actresses are merely for maximum skin show. Item girls are respected more than actors that really acts. Songs are inducted to show sleaze and bare skin. The censor board is out there to promote sleaze, instead of movies that make sense. It's high time that we did something to induct some "cinema sense" to stem the rot in the name of cinema.

Comment by Deepti Lamba

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:42:10 EDT

Generally most Bollywood movies are not worth watching on the big screen.

Comment by PH

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:15:00 EDT

Deepti, I think they seem to pick films that would be most likely to be perceived as "exotic", a sort of tourism-brochure, if you will. I thought Eklavya was awfully self conscious, VVC was all over it.

Comment by ravi

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:19:07 EDT

even though chak de india is a good movie, and all artists performed well, it may be termed as a copy cat movie...inspired by hollywood movie. in my opinion, gandhi my father is the is the best for Oscar nominee

Comment by Anamika

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:46:07 EDT

My favourite scene in Eklavya was when AB backs out the door, bowing with each step and then does the superman take off routine. Hilarious...if unintentionally so. Was a close tie between that and the dry humping death scene with Sharmila Tagore (HOW could you do it????????) May be its a fingers-up to the Oscars, unintentional just as the humour in Eklavya?

Comment by Deepti Lamba

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 05:50:58 EDT

SS, it started off a promising movie but somewhere down the line we all snoozed;)

Comment by smallsquirrel

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 05:32:10 EDT

I never even HEARD of it... was it out for like 3.5 minutes or?

Comment by Aaman

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 03:30:47 EDT

Eklavya perpetuates the worst stereotypes, IMHO, about Indian society.