Indian nomination to the Oscar
Anti posted on this here
i had heard that the kannada movie haseena was up for it too. don't see it in the rediff list too. atleast it had a screenplay which was fresh.
i think the day sankar's movies make it to the oscars, either the indian industry will need a rethink or the oscars will!
i don't agree with anti's original screenplay bit, especially since foreign movies have only one category. for ex, if you had a venezuelan movie which was an outstanding remake of another uzbek movie of 1990s, what would you care/know?! if they had licensed it from the original script owners, i guess i would be ok. besides i don't think the oscars are it either! the cannes are perhaps a better bet. after all pulp fiction won at cannes, not at the academy! but that's another story.
i have my reservations about Black. i think it was way too pompous. and the less said about mangal pandey the better.
haven't seen most of the others in the rediff list either. i have a bias against SRK anyways. liked page 3, but i guess there have been too many movies of the sort in the west already. guess i'd have liked to select HKA
in recent years, shwaas has been the most outstanding movie representing india. it is in the tradition of pure genius - simple, realistic, lingering in the mind & heart, long after you have left the theatre.
guess we will have to wait for the indian movie tendlya!
Labels: Movies
posted by D at
9/28/2005 10:18:00 AM
3 Comments:
err... don't be too fast with your dismissal of shankar. both jeans and indian were india's official entries for the oscars. not that i am sayig that they were any good. nice blog btw.
thank you for the compliment.
although i am a self professed fan of kamal, i think indian was a 'romantic' vision as was mudalvan. and i did like parts of both. we all wish that the world was like that. but teen deewarein by kukunoor for ex, was a good movie and deserved to go to the oscars. and let me stretch my neck out on this - ek hasina thi was also a good flick. 'mast' was about ram gopal verma's fantasy for sridevi playing out. but then i'd reward EHT and not mast. hope you got my point. and i did say that the oscars are not the best judge of good movies!
EHT was one of the best movies made in India - ever. However,Ab Tak Chhappan is better!
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