Bollywood. Long, convoluted, impossible love stories with the leading men and women going into collective colorful dreams running around trees (or around the Pyramid/Opera house, if the producer has enough money).
Indian cinema had successfully conceptualised and mastered the idea of collective dreams(It is time Christopher Nolan admitted that his Inception was inspired by Bollywood) when Hollywood was struggling with black and white cinema.
Indian cinema had successfully conceptualised and mastered the idea of collective dreams(It is time Christopher Nolan admitted that his Inception was inspired by Bollywood) when Hollywood was struggling with black and white cinema.
Many think that drama, emotion, love, sex behind shaking plants and kisses behind flowers bumping into each other in approval is ALL to Bollywood.
Ignorance. I pity them.
Fights. Chases. Dhushum dhushum. Right from the age of plastic swords, rubber snakes and super fast cycles to the Mission Impossible Balakrishna in a recent Tollywood (Telugu movie factory which churns out more movies a year than the number of serials Ekta Kapoor ever managed) flick, it has been the action which set Indian movies apart.
While the actors, directors, musicians, etc. steal undeserved limelight, the beacons of creativity in the pedestrian darkness of the great Indian movie industry from Bollywood to BhojpuriWood have actually been the action choreographers.
How would you otherwise explain the task of turning a middle aged, bald (enough to play professional ping pong on the head), huge (enough to get a zip code of his own) actor into a super hero?
Our choreographers often thought out of the box, over the roof, under the vehicles and through the walls. I wish sky was their limit, but it was almost always the hero's pot belly.
And if all the creative thinking didnt help, they had the goons to fall back on. Feather light, dumb and bald,(fair competition to the hero, sans the makeup), they would fight with the hero in an easy, predictable round robin basis. Sometimes a goon can actually somersault 4 to 5 times in the air before falling with an expression beyond words on a fragile wooden table.
Some people say that these action scenes are funny, sick and crazy.
Establishment sell-outs, pseudo intellectuals and morons, I say!
I salute the creme de la of our cinema with a few awe inspiring action scenes...
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Where is your personal favs?
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