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  • Posted By: dreamrequest @ 01/14/2008 5:29:20 AM

    Personally, I'd be saddened to see another part of the world turned into the marketing hype toilet bowl that is Hollywood - look at all of the garbage it spews into our living rooms and minds - 'buy this, shoot that'... If Bollywood turns Hollywood, it will be just a bit more chipping away at a world that needs more intelligent thought, caring and innocence.....

  • Posted By: dreamrequest @ 01/14/2008 5:29:08 AM

    Personally, I'd be saddened to see another part of the world turned into the marketing hype toilet bowl that is Hollywood - look at all of the garbage it spews into our living rooms and minds - 'buy this, shoot that'... If Bollywood turns Hollywood, it will be just a bit more chipping away at a world that needs more intelligent thought, caring and innocence.....

  • Posted By: Uilani30 @ 01/12/2008 6:13:21 PM

    It's all the same. It's just entertainment.If a movie is good, it's good. If it's bad, it's bad. Who cares where it came from.

  • Posted By: Mel Vilander @ 01/03/2008 7:49:27 AM

    indian movies are mostly retarded and are made for an imature audience. They are starved of originality and the makers of such productions are no way inda's brightest...hell even average i.q 'd.and a vast ammount of indian population hates and disowns these movies. The mindless naming 'bollywood' just makes me want to puke. The name hollywood has a history and this indian adaptation is a testimony for the farse that indian movies are. Pathetic this after the highs of ancient indian art and literature.

    • Posted By: indiarocks @ 01/12/2008 3:41:28 PM

      hollywood movies are retarted and they suck a lot more than bollywood movies and india has the true creativity because some indians are americans too but americans are not indians

    • Posted By: karaswart @ 01/04/2008 5:18:31 AM

      Bollywood was a name given by Western journalists defining output from Bombay. Bollywood had nothing to do with serious moviemaking- it was meant as a means of converting 'black' money into 'white' money and for gangsters to have a good time while doing it. Indian moviemaking, which has produced timeless classics- Kurosawa said that if you have not watched the films of Ray, you have not watched the sun rise- was maturing in Bengal, Kerala and other states. Bollywood is very much like Hollywood, the aim is to serve audiences with mindless crap and great chicks.

  • Posted By: faren31 @ 12/29/2007 3:49:40 PM

    This article is nothing more than PR for Mr. Screwvala and his U.S. partners. It reeks of American ethnocentrism, ignorance and lack of respect for other cultural traditions. We'll see if Mr. Screwvala has the staying power of the traditional Bollywood films. I hope he makes good movies. But I'm not impressed by this attempt to show him as a maverick innovator who will teach the Indians how to make films "the proper American way"

    • Posted By: indiarocks @ 01/12/2008 3:37:01 PM

      there is no proper american way because american movies are just about war not peace.

  • Posted By: Northern Observer @ 01/08/2008 11:33:35 AM

    People assume that the more we get the know each other the more we will like and appreciate each other, but as the internet shows, this is not necessarily the case. Some cultures can come to appreciate each other over time, Japanese and American culture today have an interesting symbiosis, but the romance can be very slow in arriving. And ethnic pride and chauvinism are never far from peoples hearts, even the best of us. America is not going to disappear, it is too large and too great a culture for that. That beign said, India and China are going to assume a larger profile in world culture, and a more prominent bollywood is part of that.

    • Posted By: karaswart @ 01/12/2008 4:31:58 AM

      American Culture- sounds like Military Intelligence..you know what I mean...

  • Posted By: peganwench @ 01/11/2008 8:44:45 AM

    Northern observer...you might want to double check your world map hun! India is not the counrty wanting to kill us!

  • Posted By: bihariclod @ 01/07/2008 9:52:22 PM

    All the Americans on this forum take a deep breath and relax. Bollywood is in no way trying to upstage hollywood. The comparison between Hollywood and Bollywood is as silly and pointless as a comparison between Mercedes and Yugo. Bollywood - is not a deliberate imitation of Hollywood. In the 60s when Satyajit Rays movies were taking the world by storm, a bunch of BBC journos used this term to refer to the indian movie industry. In the 60s Indian were wonderful socially relvent movies with great acting, direction and production values and tehir movies were insanely popular in Eastern europe and Russia in addition to Far east, middle east and Africa. In the 70s and 80s however the entire indian movie business went utterly silly and has only recently started emerging out of all that silliness. But rest easy. Nobody in india is comparing the creative output of Hollywood with Bollywood. However, a lot of Hollywood studios are beginning to OUTSOURCE (yep - that dirty word is there again) a lot of techincal work includign editing to Bollywood studios and that trend is only going to accelerate. Well ..i guess each of us has to find our niche and then give it our best. Your creativity plus our technical skills - and the world will be our oyster :-) Amen !!!!

    • Posted By: karaswart @ 01/10/2008 2:56:21 AM

      Nobody has a lock on creativity. That is a stupid myth being propogated. Everybody can do anything if an enabling ecosystem is available. Creative is where the value is and that is where India is headed. Bollywood movies are extremely creative- they serve a different audience, which is now a billion plus.

  • Posted By: dchappy@hotmail.com @ 12/03/2007 4:31:14 PM

    YES MICHAELCHIMA WHEN BOLLYWOOD COMES TO YOUR BED, INVITE THE HEROS OF HOLLY WOOD, THEY WILL ENJOY AFTER ALL INDIAN HEROS AND HEROINES ARE SALE ABLE COMODITIES AND HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH INDIAN CULTURE. WHAT A INDIAN CULTURE I AM TALKING ABOUT I SHOULD BE TALKING ABOUT WESTERN CULTURE WHERE MOTHER FATHER SISTERS BROTHERS WALKED NAKED ALL TOGETHER. OH! HOW NICE THEY SEE THE PRIVATE PARTS OF THERE MOTHERS SISTERS BROTHERS, SONS AND DAUGHTER AND LYE DOWN ON THE ROAD GIVING POSE TO CNN AND ELECTRONIC MEDIA. INDIAN FLIM STARS ARE HEADING TO ACHIEVE THAT STANDARD I PRAY AND I AM SO PROUD OF THE PRODUCERS AND DIRECTORS WHO ENJOY THE MOST BEFORE THEY THROW THE BEAUTIFUL RUBBISH TO THE PUBLIC TO ENJOY.. MR CHIMA WHY DON'T YOU SEND YOUR DANCING MOTHER, SISTERR AND WIFE TO DANCE WITH MADHUYRI NAKED. I WOULD LOVE TO SEE THE INDIAN CUTURE PROGRESS. D C HAPPY

    • Posted By: Northern Observer @ 01/08/2008 11:19:27 AM

      So public nakedness is bad, but believing a god the expicitly tells his followers to kill unbelivers is good. That's an interesting concept of God. Reminds me of Satan.

    • Posted By: karaswart @ 12/05/2007 6:42:22 AM

      Old chap- you seem to be obsessed with private parts. Don't you have a good psychiatrist in Karachi. You still have hope..

      • Posted By: gemini6 @ 12/06/2007 12:22:58 AM

        He's right, albeit a little hyper. Bollywood sucks as much as what it attempts to mimic;crass crappy Hollywood. No sane person would want his family to be influenced by the sheer depravity and constant erosion of decent values, packaged as culture in Bollywood. You might have access to better psychiatric facilities in your own area. And you said it...There's hope yet...

        • Posted By: karaswart @ 12/06/2007 9:10:55 AM

          It is a question of supply and demand. Bollywood has great export markets- legally in the Arabian Gulf, Egypt, Morroco etc. and illegally in Pakistan, Afghanistan. The number of Egyptian fans that Bacchan has is incredible. For the discerning movies of Ray, Benegal, Ghatak and a host of Malayali directors is always there.

          Indeed I have excellent pschiatric facilities in my area. But I'm afraid visa and other issues will not enable our mutual friend to avail of them. I guess he will have to use local facilities..

          • Posted By: rcarrace @ 12/06/2007 6:38:43 PM

            Oh Bollywood, Smollywood ... I put that crap on out of curiosity once and my children started crying .... and laughing .... I'll tell you what .... We could use that stuff here in the US just in case we need to torture anybody. Forget about Bollywood .... first things first, Deodorant ....DEODORANT

            • Posted By: sanya @ 12/09/2007 12:50:43 AM

              we do use deodrant ... and one thing i dont get about u is that y do u give a crap of how we smell seriously u have issues

            • Posted By: karaswart @ 12/07/2007 10:17:27 AM

              With the subprime problems and a Republican administration you will need a lot of mindless entertainment. Else you might jump off a cliff..

  • Posted By: Asif @ 01/08/2008 9:03:05 AM

    People with money comes power ""Great Power"" the power to control but not be controlled yourself. Its what one achieves from such wealth as Bill Gates has. He has as i have monitored closely being distributing most most his wealth to orphans,homeless Ect. So you see its all also for a good cause. If you love wealth then its greed, if love people its HUMANITY. As they say the more you give the more you get back from GOD.

  • Posted By: bihariclod @ 01/07/2008 10:23:19 PM

    Why is there so much hatred on this board ? Indian cussing Americans ...Americans denigerating Indians and the odd Pakistanis masquerading as first Americans then Indians dissing both ? Guys take it easy. Isn't there already too much hatred in this world ? Look fact of the matter is that India used to be a great civilization. IF you Google about science and culture in ancient india you will be surprised by what you will discover. And America - as we all know is the modern great power. Much of mankind's advances in sceince and technology have been Americans innovations. The concept of free trade, democracy (yeah yeah i know the greek invented it - but i am talking abt themodern version), human dignity, personal freedom - these are american ideals that have transformed the free world. We really need to come together and appreciate each other's potential and past and stop bickering like those middle easterners ...you know ...aren't we beter than them ? so come on ..all americans and indians ...let's have a group hug ....awwww

  • Posted By: bihariclod @ 01/07/2008 10:22:51 PM

    Why is there so much hatred on this board ? Indian cussing Americans ...Americans denigerating Indians and the odd Pakistanis masquerading as first Americans then Indians dissing both ? Guys take it easy. Isn't there already too much hatred in this world ? Look fact of the matter is that India used to be a great civilization. IF you Google about science and culture in ancient india you will be surprised by what you will discover. And America - as we all know is the modern great power. Much of mankind's advances in sceince and technology have been Americans innovations. The concept of free trade, democracy (yeah yeah i know the greek invented it - but i am talking abt themodern version), human dignity, personal freedom - these are american ideals that have transformed the free world. We really need to come together and appreciate each other's potential and past and stop bickering like those middle easterners ...you know ...aren't we beter than them ? so come on ..all americans and indians ...let's have a group hug ....awwww

  • Posted By: WARLOCK @ 12/26/2007 5:34:16 AM

    Ive seen some Bollywood movies,Hollywood maybe appalling but Bollywood is Boring. It's like watching Westside story 24 hours a day. Don't get me wrong there is some real talent there but I would not pay to go see 85% of this stuff.

    • Posted By: bihariclod @ 01/07/2008 10:01:18 PM

      Enter Your CommentI am an indian and i wouldn't pay to go see 100 percent of them. I usually wait for about20-25 people to tell me an indian movie is good before watching it on DVD. Now if you are interested - i can recommend a few good hindi movies i have seen recently. DIL CHAHTA HAI, Rang De Basanti and TARE ZAMIN PER. Watch these when you get a chance and then let me know how you liked them. (or not)

  • Posted By: Evolutionist @ 12/27/2007 5:41:33 AM

    Indian people (especially women) need to use deo,....totally gross...they stink. I would be scared if I had to eat Indian )if you know what I mean)

    • Posted By: bihariclod @ 01/07/2008 9:57:05 PM

      LMAO ..Evolutionist...based on personal experience, i can safely tell you to go Eat an Indian woman without any fear.

    • Posted By: Annihilator @ 01/06/2008 5:50:19 AM

      Evolutionist-good stay away from Indian women then. By the way you must be one of many white-european ancestored americans that utilize a single pair of undies for a week.......turn them back to front--covers 2 days then inside out and back to front again--covers 2 more days then by the 5th day revert to original........thus 5 days use of undies by dirty euro-ancestored white amercian........ LOL sucka!

    • Posted By: karaswart @ 12/28/2007 5:07:55 AM

      Did your mother not teach you to wash and then eat??? Never eat straight from a pack you ignoramus.

  • Posted By: www.ARTcomeTRUE.com @ 01/07/2008 1:41:55 PM

    i love them for being fake and overdone - that's what makes them so sweet - people forgot that movies are there for entertainment - that's what Bollywood is doing - screw the everyday life - you live in it - give me some shimmer!! way to go Bollywood :) see my original art on www.artcometrue.com

  • Posted By: www.ARTcomeTRUE.com @ 01/07/2008 1:40:28 PM

    i love them for being fake and overdone - that's what makes them so sweet - people forgot that movies are there for entertainment - that's what Bollywood is doing - screw the everyday life - you live in it - give me some shimmer!! way to go Bollywood :)

  • Posted By: tunnelvison @ 01/06/2008 2:42:05 PM

    The popular but shameful tag ???Bollywood??? it self tells a lot about the mind set and vision of Bombay cinema.
    Very few like actor Nareeruddin Shah have objected to it and others don???t seem to mind it at all.
    He once said ???for god???s sake doesn???t expect any reality and originality in Hindi films???.
    An average Hindi film is full of pathetic caricatures, garish sets, ever youthful, overdressed heroes and heroines.
    Stories rarely move away from old tales, and these are being told again and again.
    They are really starved of talent and rarely tell a good story, mostly are woven around tested formulas.
    But there are few refreshing attempts to use better narratives along with realistic and entertaining tales.
    So called writers are expected to close them selves in 5 stars hotels with booze, CDs of Hollywood movies and come out with saleable concoctions.
    Gangsters are rumored to control a lot there from stories to casting, heroines, distributions, film star shows abroad.
    May be they have become savvy in marketing and business models but the products remains pathetically old wrapped in new colorful trappings.

  • Posted By: tunnelvison @ 01/06/2008 2:26:22 PM

    The popular but shameful tag ???Bollywood??? it self tells a lot about the mind set and vision of Bombay cinema.
    Very few like actor Nareeruddin Shah have objected to it and others don???t seem to mind it at all.
    He once said ???for god???s sake doesn???t expect any reality and originality in Hindi films???.
    An average Hindi film is full of pathetic caricatures, garish sets, ever youthful, overdressed heroes and heroines.
    Stories rarely move away from old tales, and these are being told again and again.
    They are really starved of talent and rarely tell a good story, mostly are woven around tested formulas.
    But there are few refreshing attempts to use better narratives along with realistic and entertaining tales.
    So called writers are expected to close them selves in 5 stars hotels with booze, CDs of Hollywood movies and come out with saleable concoctions.
    Gangsters are rumored to control a lot there from stories to casting, heroines, distributions, film star shows abroad.
    May be they have become savvy in marketing and business models but the products remains pathetically old wrapped in new colorful trappings.

  • Posted By: asexycreation @ 01/06/2008 3:54:08 AM

    I feel she is over paid and the money that goes to sports, and celeberties should be going to our military families. Because they work and protect our country and our the most under paid job..I feel her husband is older and trying to get over on her and if she had no money he would not be bothering her yes britney and everyone ealse needs to have a private life and should not be getting paid to sing it is entertainment. Our money should go to the military who protect us.What are we teaching our world.

  • Posted By: mecman @ 01/03/2008 5:23:24 PM

    How in the hell can you not mention Southern Movie industry? Comeone, who the heck wrote this stupid article.

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