I've never been a great fan of extremely commercial "masala" movies... Yes, I did enjoy watchin' films like "Murattu Kalai" (Rajnikanth) and "Sakala kala vallavan" (Kamal) when I was a little kid, and those were commerical "masala" movies I guess... Infact, I can watch these films even now and enjoy them... Sure, they were commercial mass-entertainers, but somewhere at the bottom of it all there was an undeniable human touch... I mean, the heroes weren't flying around on all sides... Somehow, I haven't been able to enjoy the extra-dose of unbelievable, gravity-defying stunts and logic-defying song-sequences obtrusively inserted into the screenplay... If the protagonists in the film "Matrix" flew around, it was because according to the story, the whole sequence was happening inside the minds of the characters and not in the physical world!!! But, our film-makers insist of havin' a "matrix shot" in the stunt sequence just to make it look kool!
And why do the villains, especially the imported-from-other-states kind, in our films always have to be over-exaggerated and loud? One of my big problems is that I'm a fairly good lip-reader (how that happened has to be an entirely different blog!) and so I can pretty easily make out most of the Hindi dialogues that these villains are actually mouthing... And the poor dubbing artiste has to somehow try and match this with the tamil dialogues... Good luck with that!
Now, comes the twist in the screenplay of my life! I've been recently cast to play a character in a "commercial" film and the script requires me to be yelling and screaming most of my dialogues in the film!!! Hmmm... I guess I've become a part of the machinery that I once despised!!!
And why do the villains, especially the imported-from-other-states kind, in our films always have to be over-exaggerated and loud? One of my big problems is that I'm a fairly good lip-reader (how that happened has to be an entirely different blog!) and so I can pretty easily make out most of the Hindi dialogues that these villains are actually mouthing... And the poor dubbing artiste has to somehow try and match this with the tamil dialogues... Good luck with that!
Now, comes the twist in the screenplay of my life! I've been recently cast to play a character in a "commercial" film and the script requires me to be yelling and screaming most of my dialogues in the film!!! Hmmm... I guess I've become a part of the machinery that I once despised!!!
7 comments:
hey hi ragz, let me the first person to write a comment for ur very first post! as usual, ur blog is rocking with the first post itself. even though it is a brand new one!! good luck and welcome to the blog world... wat u said abt commercial films are very true. but that's wat we enjoy and smtimes i enjoy it too. it is ok as u have mentioned that ironically u have casted to do one.. watever u do.. am sure u can do well.
Hey there! Nice to know that u're the first person to comment on my blog:)... As always, I will try to do my best... With ur wishes and prayers, I should be fine ;)
A good start. Having seen your interviews and reality shows, I guess you have much more knowledge and opinion about the world around us. So expecting some more thoughts in future. But as you have remarked, sometimes we find ourselves in a soup that we once despised,isnt it? Have fun and Keep writing.
I knew u r a good mimicry artist and a really good music composer....(I have even dreamt of singing for films after i heard ur tunes :) )....but u have proved that u r a good writer too...Good job dude !!!!
Hey... y hv u stopped blogging??
Are you an ENFP, Raghav?
ragav...nice thing u hav written..can u write something abt dance and the recent change in the trend of dance whr all going for hip hop as if thr is no other style
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