Friday, November 21, 2008

Indian v/s Hollywood movies

Why are Hollywood movies better than Indian movies? The answer is simple!

In Hollywood movies it is the director who plays important role in making the movie. Hence, he extracts all the talent inside his artists. He shows situations that are as realistic as possible.
Most of the Indian movies are Hero based ones. In every situation, it is the hero who is given importance. Hence, situations may not be natural, especially fights.
We cannot put the blame entirely on movie guys. It is the audience and media that is to be blamed mainly. If people want to see movies where there is hero centrism, only such movies are produced, after all, movie industry is also a free market, hence, the same rules apply there. Atleast media should try to educate people about the nature of movies because people on an average have average knowledge about anything and hence it may not be true.
About plagiarism: We now know that many movies and songs which are popular have their "inspirations" from other movies made in some western languages. How far is it justifiable to do that? Whenever we use others' work we need to pay some money for the copyright if we acknowledge that. So, why bother? As long as the work produced by us is not visible to them, it is OK. But, now due to increase in information exchange, this may not be possible. Consider "Hari Puttar". Now we know the sources of many movies and start questioning them about copying. They have to acknowledge, they have no choice. But, we should not be rude to them.
How many people would bother to see the english version of "Black" which was made in some 1930's ? But, by making it in India, many people were able to see it in their own language. Also, in earlier times, when making movies was not all that easy, they used to look for Hollywood because that is where many movies were made. Hence, it may not be completely wrong to take ideas from them.

So, what we finally want is to have movies which can take copyrights from originals. If that seems pretty costly, we can at least acknowledge that they are "inspired" before some one points out the same. Also, basic story line can be the same but at least sequence of actions etc. should change.

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