Bollywood Inc.
We were sitting at Nescafe sipping coffee the other day, and the art of Blogging was the topic of discussion. My good friend Ravi felt that it was necessary for the blog to be thought provoking....so Ravi Babu here goes.....
I watched 'Taxi no. 9211' yesterday in Satyam. Though I am not a big fan of Bollywood I managed to watch the movie owing to the following reasons:
1. It was a 1 hr. 45 mins. long movie
2. It had Nana Patekar in it (At some level, I aspire to be like him...sans the beard of course!)
3. The tickets were for free ( I won them by answering some quiz in ET)
4. It did not have 18 songs and a family wedding!
Well, I managed to watch it and at the end I was thinking that there was something very Hollywoodish about the movie....I also remembered what Shekhar Kapoor had once said about Bollywood..."Even the worst Hollywood movies are better than the best Bollywood Movies" ....this was the case maybe 3-4 yrs. back when 95 out of 100 Bollywood movies flopped...but today...I think the situtation has changed.....Durations are smaller...Not too many songs....cross over movies are in vogue....off beat movies are also being appreciated....So what prevents Bollywood movies from being truly global, I mean beyond singapore and other places where there is a plethora of Indians.....??
This got me thinking....what if Bollywood was run like a corporate entity?? It would have an MD, a CEO who would take care of the general affairs of the company....A Mktg, Finance and an HR team...An Operations team to take care of the Supply chain...such as the Distribution, Retailing etc....Things would be so much more organised....There would be MBAs who would specialise in Bollywood operations...there would be electives called 'Public Relations for Shahrukh Khan and the likes'...ha ha.....But who do you thnk would make the perfect CEO??....I vote for Mr.Bachan...he could take care of the PR too....There would more than just unions...there would be Associations where people could get together and chat up on the latest trends...these get-togethers would also give the papparazzi something to dwell upon...best of all...I think, it would elevate the movie making industry to new levels....It would probably be as respected as an HLL in FMCG, an Infosys in IT and a Reliance in....well everything.....
As I awoke from my reverie I realised that the movie was over ...time pass I would call it....just two hours of TIME PASS.....However, it did leave a warm feeling at the pit of my stomach....mmmm....I guess thats why people are drawn to movies, especially Bollywood ones....they take you away from reality and make you live in a separate world with Raghav Shastree and Jai Mittal.....laugh and cry with them, feel sorry for the taxi driver at the same time as you feel sorry for the spoilt son of a very rich man....
would it be worth making the whole thing such a serious affair.....?? I wonder.....
posted by still searching.... @ 12:43 AM
8 Comments:
u thot rite..its a remake of an english movie called "changing lanes" featurin ben affleck n samuel jackson...but not bad even 4 a remake...dats aftr so much overlookin abt bollywood over hollywood..lolz..nice blog tho..n hey u r like nana aftr all..d way u talk..;)
hmm....trust these guys to plagearise....:)...anyways thanks for the complement...am flattered!!!
Nice blog.....yeah offbeat is definitely in
good one, but need to appreciate bollywood for watever its churnin in recent times, u can atleast tolerate and have fun, i enjoyed it too! time pass, and bout bollywood havin a ceo, innovative! tats one good idea!
thanks karthik...offbeat is ok...plagearism..i am not very sure if that will work in the long term....anyways ...undersky..i think you are right in saying that for what its worth Bollywood is an indispensible part of every Indian's life!!!
nice idea ..bollywood inc., ..but it would become quite a dictator regime after a while...what with ppl dictating what one should produce..and what not!! Never knew it was a remake!!How sad... Not 2 many original stuff around..and rite now bolloywood seems to be getting on a big time spree of remaking old bollywood films itself!!!
Nice Blog, thoughts are interesting and actually there was a proposal to make the industry a listed one. But that would have prevented all the black money that goes into movie making and a lot of ppl would have come under the income tax umbrella. Ppl like AB, Abhi, Preity and a lot more of these stars actually pay taxes which many ppl don't do. There will be a lot of other complications also.
This is not the only movie which was copied and well made, Zinda is copied from Old Boy, Aawara Pagal Dewana was copied, The Usual Suspects was copied(I forgot the movie , it has tanushree dutta, eemran hashmi, anil kapoor)
Neways how did you get the tickets from ET?? Put fundaes ;-)
Once I also got a 1000 gift voucher of Hidesign when I answered a few questions asked in a supliment with ET. But now a days I am reading it online. So don't check much of these contests.
well...usual suspects has been made into 'DUS'....and the ET quiz...well, no fundae da...it came around valentines and they had this offer of two open tickets at Satyam....and guess who won them...;)
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