Hollywood calling bollywood !

Watched Spiderman 3 and POC - at worlds end over the last couple of week ends, both have been spectacular blockbusters across the world shattering box office collection records. One of the most striking feature for both the films in my opinion was the emphasis on the emotions/relationships particularly love angle. Even though the films are a benchmark for their special effects and action sequences - some how in the trilogies the dialogue writers had more work. Love triangles, good becoming bad, bad becoming good all are the forte of Bollywood and now Hollywood has embraced it to good effect atleast financially. Another similarity is that both films have done very well in India. The best movie in this genre was " Mask of the Zorro " - I cant still forget the during the climax when Anthony hopkins actually takes the hand of Zeta jones and hands it over to Antonio - Classical hindi movie ending.

Where as bollywood is on the other way around though the standard fare of song and dance are still very much needed to make it a blockbuster. Krish and Dhoom 2 are prime examples. Krish was a mixture of all western superheroes and still dancing around the trees with a pretty lady in tow. I never understood why Dhoom 2 was such a huge hit - none of the scenes were that great , it had no story thought Ash looked stunning and Abhishek horrible and Hritik continues to amaze me with his dancing skills.

We as a nation have matured. The so called alternate cinema is doing well - Bheja Fry is the latest example what returns on investment a movie of Rs 60 lacs generating Rs 12 crores at last count. It was a short and sweet films with no songs, limited characters , no big star cast. A lot of small budget / cross over films are ruling the marquee. The audience have a choice now and with the multiplex mushrooming all over the place even the film makers can target the discerning junta and do not have to necessarily dish out the tasteless song and dance fare, back in the 80s