tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7670543499274741427.post2789596962517288043..comments2024-03-26T17:54:54.592+01:00Comments on Speculiction...: Culture Corner: BollywoodUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7670543499274741427.post-363910514568043162015-02-21T18:22:40.630+01:002015-02-21T18:22:40.630+01:00Bah, too much trouble, especially if you can't...Bah, too much trouble, especially if you can't remember the name, or the actors. Odds are thr folks that were recommending you Bollywood were referring to stuff like this anyway. When I saw how you laid out this post, I had a good laugh about it with my sister; its typical formulaic Bollywood. Nice to see you gave it a few more shots! The last one is more in keeping with the sort of movies that make Bollywood watching, from time to time. The older stuff tends to be better, before they got so Westernised. Rabindranauthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11872964459406561891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7670543499274741427.post-8298037432762621042015-02-21T09:14:30.085+01:002015-02-21T09:14:30.085+01:00Is 80% of science fiction published today crap? I...Is 80% of science fiction published today crap? I would say somewhere around 50%, the majority of the remaining 50% average, and about 10% good to great.<br /><br />You may interested to know that after Varanasi, my wife and I watched three more showings, i.e. James Corey didn't throw me entirely off the scent. One showing was in an ancient New Delhi cinema that was as much an experience in itself as the film. But it wasn't until the last of these three (on the plane ride home) that we discovered a film worth the time. The title I unfortunately forget, but it was an 80s (or 90s?) film about a woman caught in a cultural Catch-22. A husband, who had been arranged for her, runs away in the early going. In his lengthy absence, she falls in love with another man, and of course, once the husband returns, conflict ensues. Throughout the film the woman, coming from a very poor neighborhood, fights for independence and position in society and a company, but is continually limited by her gender. The whole story told in a very realistic setting (i.e. not the nirvana of Jannat 2, rather the real poverty of India), it was a touching film that raised major issues that I'm not sure have been addressed in the 20-30 years that have passed.<br /><br />But you're right, perhaps I should find the title and write about that film to balance the injustice?Jessehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07796098208589965362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7670543499274741427.post-77418399098138128542015-02-21T06:24:09.997+01:002015-02-21T06:24:09.997+01:00Bollywood's a massive film industry that produ...Bollywood's a massive film industry that produces in excess of 600 films any given year, 80% of which are bad. Your experience here is the movie-going equivalent of walking into the science fiction shelf of your local bookstore, picking up James S.A. Corey's latest, and judging the entire science fiction genre based on the crap contained therein. Rabindranauthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11872964459406561891noreply@blogger.com