After watching the Bachchan family drama on Filmfare stage, I was not in a position to actively think on what was Jaya Bhaduri Bachchan's life time achievement for hindi cinema. I agree that Bollywood, considering its vast resources has achieved very less and all Jaya Bhaduris sitting with a 'Devil' can grab any award in our tinsel town. Watch this video at your own risk.
As far as I see it, this couple, standing there on stage for around ten minutes going on and on about how their son married , how their daughter got pregnant and why that is a lifetime achievement, with the whole of Hindi film industry sitting there and listening is a spectacle - that is exactly what makes the hindi films suck - inertia to get out of that bullshit pit. Every speech on the filmfare stage has to pay homage to the Bachchans or the Chopras or the Roshans. Everyone is addressed as uncle or aunty. Every movie is so full of bullshit. And Hrithik is the best actor for Dhoom2.
Can we get over it guys ? Your family values. Are we still not fed up of this family drama and Koffee couches. Is there a single award night in recent memory where the family hasn't tortured us. Isn't it time Bollywood borrows some professionalism from hollywood or outsource this bollywood farce to good film makers in Bengal, Chennai or Kerala. Bachchan once said Academy awards are not for us, our art is different. Yes sir ! your art is different and so full of bullshit, which is shoveled down the average movie goer's esophagus like "Eklavya"
Let us not live under the impression that these folks are the best we have, they are not. There have been genuine movies like this and this, which came out of the same bollywood. These families are the cancer of the hindi film industry and they make a mockery of cinema, perhaps the most important medium of our times - and thats a crime. There are a lot people who stand accused, but the main culprit could be six feet three with a baritone voice.
P.S : If you still haven't watched Black Friday, as Taran Adarsh put it, do yourselves a favour - go watch it.
P.P.S : Now that 'Lifetime' has been presented to Jaya and Rekha, how about checking out names like Nihalani and Benegal before giving it to Aishwarya.
6 comments:
so filmfare is to honour prospective MILs.....I didnt know all these years.
I still think Jaya Bachchan is one of the finest Indian actress...the other two Bachchans are rather over rated... but then she comes up with such speeches and I want go 'phatak'.
Anyways did you read about the way these Bachchans accquire new expensive cars.
BVN,
I searched for the comments thing earlier. Now it reappeared/ In fact like you said it is quite funny to hear her talk about her ' family life'.
John Abraham, the infamous malayalam director once shared stage with Raj kapoor. John in his usual ragged style was asked by kapoor : why dont you wear some good clothes?
Jhon replied, if i have the money you spend for the suit,i will make a great movie!!
Neihal, my whole point was 'being the Big B',there is a lot of things these people can do to improve the sorry state of bollywood, but they are chasing, as you said, the bentleys
Alex, i puked :)
Clash, again ! you are right on! you get it. John is in my mind whenever i think of the struggles of a real artist. the way our greatest filmakers struggle to make a movie, i mean the money part. And then i see the splurge of Dhoom2. It sucks, Big time !
BVN,
Thanks for visiting my blog and commenting.
I had written a post on Bollywood and the crap it dishes out, though in a lighter sense.You can check it out -
http://chitraspace.blogspot.com/2006/08/bollywood-hungama.html
Wow. THANKS a tonne for this post. I can't explain how happy i felt on reading this - to see someone see exactly the same amount of bullshit in this. I watched this video yesterday on youtube and just explained the last 2 hours explaining to different friends How freaking sexist this whole speech business was. I MEAN "MOTHER" Like a woman must be a mother. And she walked on to the stage "demurely" and "confidently". And the two go together? jaya bacch from bhaduri?
and home....agh drove me nuts.
Jenny Mom. So freakin reidiculous.
Dignified ladies instead of acting in crappy bollywood films perhaps actually might consider doing what they freakin said they would do while wearing those bullshit crowns? Weren't they supposed to try and do something good for the society? if anythign they are doing just the opporsite by nurturing the desire through bollywood that capitalism thrives on- the need of wannabe-like-them ness.
Annoying as hell. And I heard that the daughter shweta wasn't into bollyowood. Alright. But guess what she did? TELIVISION! woohoo. thats so freaking different right? If i had that much money and that kinda "goodness" and "dignity" i might use my resources differently. these folks could do so much if they wanted. if not social work - they could PROMOTE true ART by supporting artist filmmakers. It's so sad really. I don't really understand. I am appalled by how inarticulate and school-trained most of our artists are. I was dissappointed a shell to hear Konkona talk once. She sounded much less intelleigent than i had imagined. Nandita das and rahul bose are probably the only two people who seem to think about flm medium as art. Farhan Kahtar also, to some extent. I quite liked how self-reflexive as cinema DCH was.
Anyway, so happy to see ypour post and see someone feel the ssame way about this.
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