Lagaan in 2004, Devdas in 2005 and now Rang De Basanti in 2006, Will it or won’t? Why RDB, why not Omkara or Munnabhai selected? The debate and nosiness has been started among bollywood and Electronic Media people.
The common people, whether they have any interest or not in the Oscars award for Indian movie, are forced to see the irritating news packages and discussion (worst) on this matter on News channels.
Amit Verma has written a post on the Oscar mania of Indian filmmakers. He writes in his post There’s no “Oscars jinx” that the fundamental nature of Indian movies is completely different from the western movies. Then why we are running to get recognition there in the Oscars?
He writes as If Indian cinema has started doing well abroad, it is because of NRIs. The only Indian film-makers who have been taken seriously by the West are those who make films in what is essentially the Western paradigm of film-making: two prominent examples are Satyajit Ray, who was more inspired by Renoir than Phalke when he started out, and the exceptional Mira Nair, whose Monsoon Wedding used song and dance in an entirely non-Bollywood way, using an Indian setting but a Western structure.
One thing the writer forgot to say that there is no any category for the best foreign films in our Film fare awards in India. How will you rate those western movies on Indian parameter to make them obsess? This is a good suggestion to the big-shots of Indian Film Industry. Isn’t it?
