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Kashmiri Film Industry

vcode — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 07:29:18 +0000

This is an industry which has been revived after 39 years in 2010 with the movie Akh Daleel Loolech. Kashmir is considered as heaven on earth and was a favorite spot for romantic shoots. But due to the militancy and the cross border terrorism, this place is not accessible. A lot of movies were never made here because it is basically a very poor state and so they haven’t been able to raise enough finances for movies. The last movie to be released here was Habba Khatoon in 1967.

A lot of movies have been shot in Kashmir and have stories based on the Kashmir issue. Hritik Roshan Mission Kashmir was shot in Kashmir. Movies like LOC too had portions shot in different locations of Kashmir. Songs are often shot in Shikara’s too give it the Kashmiri feel. Hope the makers in this area just decide to not get stopped by the terrorism and make more movies in Kashmir so that the world can see the natural beauty of this place.

Yester years star Waheeda Rehmann visited Kashmir after 26 years and this is what she had to say ” Kashmir used to be the favorite shooting spot for all Indian filmmakers in 50′s, 60′s and 70′s and we’ve always loved to be here. I’m a little disheartened to see the condition of the Dal Lake, whose waters used to be crystal clear. Encroachments all along Dal, too many people and lack of hygiene among the people have spoiled my mood. The silver lining, however, is that normalcy is returning to Kashmir, which could be a harbinger of a new era for the people of the valley”.

Kashmir has given Bollywood stars like Kiran Kumar, Anupam Kher, Sanjay Suri, Jeevan and a new star Rahul Bhatt. Onkar Aima is another famous personality from Kashmir. Child artist turned hero Kunal Khemu too is a Kashmiri gift to Bollywood.

BOLLYWOOD- A NEW ERA

vcode — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 06:01:18 +0000

The Indian film industry is called Bollywood because it is based in Bombay. Everybody who goes to Bombay or now known as Mumbai wants to see this ever growing industry and its stars.

Movies in India are basically made with a lot of spices. In India a movie has to have song, dance, romance, thrill, suspense, comedy, action, family drama etc. People in India work for ten hours a day and that too during the main part of the day and so many of them return to a home with no entertainment. The only available entertainment is movies. Whether a business tycoon or a cycle rickshaw driver all want to watch movies. So when a movie is made the makers have to keep in mind both the masses and the classes.

Movies were made particularly for the masses and the multiplex crowd. But now the viewers want to see good movies with great stories. Earlier the hero carried the entire movie on his shoulders but now the load is evenly spread. A movie will do well even if you don’t have a great star cast but have a great story and your actors do a job. A good example for this would be Khosla Ka Ghosla. There is nobody you can call the hero of the film but it’s realistic and humorous.

In three hours the audience wants to laugh, cry and be excited and so it’s a tough task for the directors but then hats off to all Indian directors as they come up with something spicy enough to fulfill the needs of all types of viewers.

Each movie has the main story and a lot of other small stories that build around it. At times in stories there may not be any scope for comedy. A lot of directors use other characters and bring in another funny plot. This comedy has no link with the movies. In the past people accepted this kind of comedy too but nowadays the audience accepts comedy only when it’s a part of the main story.

People who want to watch emotions are very particular about the quality of the emotions too. If you can’t cry or deliver the dialogues properly the audience rejects the star immediately. The stars have to be convincing enough. This is where the director’s ability is tested. The comedy has to be timed properly and the tears have to be realistically shed.

Movies in India have been made with a lot of respect for family values and traditions. Every movie which shows any function has to do it in the right way. If there is a wedding song in a movie it not only becomes a hit. It becomes a part of every Indian wedding. Movies like Hum Saath Saath Hain and Hum Apke Hain Kaun have been very very big hits because each and every scene of the movie is actually what happens in joint families and in weddings.

A movie when made in India has to be made in such a way that both a 5 year kid and an 85 year old grand father both have to enjoy it. It has to have a great story, touching performances, lovely music, breath taking locations, great dance steps and of course a really bad villain whom the hero has to bash up even if he is on the death bed.

This is true bollywood ishtyle where anything can happen. The hero can beat up any number of guys. The heroine can cry without glycerin. The villain is always ugly to look at. The police will never reach on time to save people. It’s only up to the hero to do all the running around, saving and bashing up. The heroines will always be wearing great makeup even if its in the middle of the night. Mother in laws can’t be good and the daughter in law will only worry about everybody else’s happiness and not hers. This is apna bollywood with all these errors but still it is the biggest film industry in the world. Nearly thrice the number of movies is made each year than the number of days in a year. If you are a movie buff then there is no place like bollywood because there is nothing that you can’t find here.

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Music In Bollywood

vcode — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 05:21:35 +0000

In bollywood the music plays a vital role. If the music is good in the movie it’s like well begun is half done. Music directors are given the story and the lyrics and are expected to make tunes for each song. Then professional play back singers are hired who sing these songs. Then when the movie is being made the hero and heroine have to lip sync to the music. There are very few stars that sing for their movies and act too. Kishore Kumar was a veteran and now it’s Big B who is the only one to carry it off. In the past the music directors were famous for making songs which were easy to sing and yet so melodious but today it’s a different story. Now a music director is rated on the basis of how many hit dance tracks can he provide. If it’s a slow track then how melodious it is and how many techno sounds has he used. R.D. Burman was a music director whom people still can’t forget and nobody can beat his music. Even today people remix his tracks and are selling it for good money.

Another director whose music is a craze is A.R Rehman. His music is great to listen to and very difficult to sing. He has delivered major hits like Chaiya Chaiya, Hamma hamma, roja etc. But the current heart throb is Himesh Reshammiya. It’s not a coincidence but every track which has been a hit in 2010 has been his track. This director not only makes good music but he is an exceptional singer too. Himesh sings and has a voice which sounds like he is singing from his nose but the beauty is that every word he sings touches the heart. Top directors this year are annoyed with him. Reason being even when Himesh was not signed on for some movies the producers requested him to do a special song. To the woes of many other directors everything that Himesh did turned into a hit.

Play back singing used to be the forte of a select few singers but now a days there are many players. To make it big in bollywood you either need to be star kid or you must have a godfather in the industry. Of late there has been a new way to make it big in bollywood and that is by participating in one of the reality shows. There are many shows like Indian idol and Sa Re Ga Ma Pa which are providing raw talent with a platform to make it big. Some of the recent finds have been Debojit and Abhijeet Sawant. These singers not only sing for movies they also perform in shows.

Dance In Bollywood

vcode — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 04:21:44 +0000

In Indian movies dance is vital as the story. This is so because in India whether you are old or young, good or bad everybody can dance. It’s a nice way to relax and so people want to both watch and dance to catchy tunes. Due to this movies which don’t even have a need for a dance song introduce one in one way or the other. In the past every movie had a female negative lead or the vamp that would wear skimpy colorful clothes and dance for the villains. This brings to mind vamps like Helen, Bindu and Aruna Irani. These dancing divas had a style of their own. Helen was famous for songs like Monica Oh My Darling and Yeh mera dil. Then dancing became a group affair and everybody was expected to dance.

There was an era when dancing was only done by the women. Soon the men were expected to shake a leg too. This was a waterloo for many action heroes. Stars like Dharmendra and his son Sunny Deol are terrible dancers and is very obvious when they dance. Then came in stars like Amitabh, Jeetendra and Rajesh Khanna who could dance something if not very well. It was Mithun Chakraborty who took the stage at that time. He did movies based on dance like Disco Dancer and brought in the disco craze into the country. Dancing then moved to another high when stars like Amir, Salman and Shah Rukh came in. The new generation of actors were all natural dancers. But let’s not forget to give credit to some actors who were not very good dancers but worked very hard to make it big in the dance industry. Topping this chart will be Saif Ali Khan and apna Big B. Saif was called the star with two left feet but after Oole Oole he changed his image completely. Just look at Amitabh Bachchan in Chali Chali or Rock and roll soniye and he will teach you how dance your way gracefully, stylishly and youthfully to success.

When we say dance there are some actresses who are called the goddess of dancing. To name a few lets start with Rekha, Sri devi, Madhuri, Urmila, Karishma and Aishwarya. If you are an actress who can’t dance in bollywood you can survive. So, all the actresses can dance a bit at least. The ones who excel are the ones who can dance gracefully with complete facial expressions and the smile on their faces. Rekha won a national award for Umrao Jaan where she plays a courtesan. This involves very intricate dancing with a different expression for every word. Each of the above mentioned actresses has played roles in major dance movies like Dil to Pagal Hai, Hum apke hain kaun and Devdas. People still can’t get over the magic of Sri Devi’s Na jaane kahaan se aaye hai, Rekha’s Dil cheez kya hai, Madhuri’s Didi tera devar deewaana, Urmila’s rangeela re, Karishma’s Mujhko hue na khabar and Aishwarya’s Crazy kiya re.

Choreography is now the most in thing. The top dance directors now are Saroj Khan, Farah Khan, Vaibhavi Merchant, Bosco and Caesar, Ahmed Khan, Ganesh Hegde and Ganesh Acharya. Each one of these directors has a style of their own. Saroj Khan is the senior most and has many awards and hit songs to her credit. Farah is a very different director and has many unusual songs to her credit like Chaiya Chaiya, which was shot on top of a moving train. She is also the one who brought in the Hritik Roshan style of dancing. She is the one who brought out the best of his dancing abilities in his first movie Kaho Na Pyar hai. Farah and Ahmed slowly graduated from only choreography to directing their own movies too. Farah’s first movie was Main Hoon Na with the king Khan and it was a very big hit.

Ahmed made his debut with Lakeer with Sunny Deol, Sunil Shetty and John Abraham but he wasn’t that lucky and the movie bombed badly. Ganesh Hegde released his own pop album which did okay business. Another choreographer who is exceptional is Shaimak Davar. He runs a lot of dance classes in different cities and if he is in your city better join up. Latest heart throb Shaahid Kapoor was his student and watching him dance is a real pleasure now.

Ganesh Acharya is a director who is so fat but he is talented beyond words. He has choreographed songs for Lagaan and his biggest hit was Koi Aaye Toh Le jaaye with Mamta Kulkarni. Vaibhavi Merchant is the director who is making Hritik Dance to her moves these days. She is a young lady who has proved to the world that anything can be achieved by hard work.

The funda of forced dance sequences in movies is at its peak. If there isn’t place for a dance song in the movie then a special song is shot either to introduce the characters as it was done in Dus or a promotional song is shot like its been done for Kaal. This has also given birth to the concept of the item girl. These girls are only good at dancing and are only used to increase the viewer ship of the movie. The top item girls right now are Rakhi Sawant, Yana Gupta and Isha Kopikar.

Whether it’s a tragic song or a suspence there has to be some form of dance. Bollywood dance is made up all forms of dancing. There are songs like Maar Dala which is in the classic form of dancing and there are songs like Babuji which has no particular style at all.

BOLLYWOOD- A NEW ERA

vcode — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 05:36:06 +0000

The Indian film industry is called Bollywood because it is based in Bombay. Everybody who goes to Bombay or now known as Mumbai wants to see this ever growing industry and its stars.

Indian cinema has improved drastically and now the audience is very mature too. They still want song and dance but not the running around tree sequences. So now there is a new market for item songs. This is where a nice fast track is made only for a great dancer to dance and increase the sales. Some of the top songs have been Babuji zara dhere chalo, khallas etc.
Movies were made particularly for the masses and the multiplex crowd. But now the viewers want to see good movies with great stories. Earlier the hero carried the entire movie on his shoulders but now the load is evenly spread. A movie will do well even if you don’t have a great star cast but have a great story and your actors do a job. A good example for this would be Khosla Ka Ghosla. There is nobody you can call the hero of the film but it’s realistic and humorous.

Kannada Film Industry

vcode — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 06:30:16 +0000

This is an industry which is going through a very good phase. Known for making extremely realistic movies this industry was in its peak during the 70s and 80s. With the coming in of satellite television and Video piracy this industry has become sick and is still unable to revive. Stars from Karnatka too have migrated and finding value for their talent in the Tamil and Telugu industry.This was a year from the Kannada Actresses in Kollywood. Main stars are Anu Prabhakar, Bhavana, Chytra, Prema, Ruthu, Tara, Chandini etc.

The kannada industry is the industry which has produced great actors like Raj Kumar and upendra. It’s this industry which is the main hub for original stories. A lot of Kannada movies are remade into Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu. Cheran made autograph and he introduced Gopika and Kamala to the Tamil Industry. Stars like Raj Kumar and Upendra have acted in many Tamil movies. Upendras biggest hits are Koo Koo, Okemata.

Asin was the face of the year in 2005 every movie which came around Diwali had her. She starred with Surya in Ghajini, Vikram in Majaa and with Vijay in Sivakasi. All the three movies were hits. Sandhya made her debut with the film kadal and walked off with the best actress award for the film. Gopika has impressed everybody with her simplicity and great eyes. This actress is going places without exposing anything at all. This year was a major year for Nayantara. This actress used act with the senior stars as she too was big built and looked good with them. Look at her this year she has shed off all the extra pounds and is looking sleek in Vallavan and E. Both the movies have been hits this year and she is riding high.

Malayalam Film Industry

vcode — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 07:22:06 +0000

This is an industry whichv is going through a very bad phase. Known for making extremely realistic movies this industry was in its peak during the 70s and 80s. With the coming in of satellite television and Video piracy this industry has become sick and is still unable to revive. Stars from Kerala too have migrated and finding value for their talent in the Tamil and Telugu industry.

This was a year fro the Malayalam Actresses in Kollywood. All the hits had a Kerala actress in it. Asin starred in Varalaru History of the godfather,Sandhya In Dishyum, Nayantara in Vallavan, Gopika in yamtan magan.

The Malayalam industry is the industry which has produced great actors like Mamooty and Mohan Lal. It’s this industry which is the main hub for original stories. A lot of Malayalam movies are remade into Tamil and Telugu. Cheran made autograph and he introduced Gopika and Kamala to the Tamil Industry. Stars like Mamooty and Mohan Lal have acted in many Tamil movies. Mamooty’s biggest Tamil hit was Kandukondain Kandukondain.

Malayalam Film Industry

vcode — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 05:31:25 +0000

Leela Samson likely to head censor board

vcode — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 05:29:02 +0000

New Delhi, March 28 – Well-known Bharatnatyam dancer Leela Samson is expected to be the next chief of the censor board, an official of the ministry of information and broadcasting said.

She will succeed yesteryears actress Sharmila Tagore.

“The outgoing censor chief has requested that the new person should be appointed before her tenure ends (on March 31),” said theofficial, adding that the annoucement will be made soon.

Samson juggles many role of dancer, writer, teacher, mentor, choreographer, director of Kalakshetra, cultural advisor to the prime minister and chairperson of the Sangeet Natak Academi and now she will monitor movies produced by one of the largest film producing nations.

Known as one of the most technically brilliant and dynamic dancers of all time, Samson recently wrote a biography of dancer and social activist Rukmini Devi Arundale, the founder of the Chennai-based Kalakshetra, that the Indian parliament, in January 1994, recognised as an Institute of National Importance.

Costumes And Make Up

vcode — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 06:25:37 +0000

Every outfit that the stars wear on screen becomes a trend and all people try to wear the same thing. Bollywood costumes are like a religion they catch on real fast. Madhuri’s saree in Hum Apke Hain Kaun sold like hot cakes in the local markets. You can see young boys and girls and find out who is their favorite star. If guys are wearing chains with the words cool on it then they are Shah Rukh fans. If they are wearing low hip jeans nowadays then they are Hritik fans. Girls wearing skirts with words written behind it are Preity fans and those wearing chiffon sarees are Rani Mukherjee fans.

In movies like Hum Apke Hain Kaun, Gajgamini and Devdas the heroines have changed many outfits. It is believed the ghagara worn by Madhuri in Maar Daala weighed thirty kilos. Costume designing was not that important in the past but now every star has his/ her personal dress designer. They go shopping in foreign countries for top brands. Clothes can make or break somebody’s career. So, all stars take the time and effort to wear the best outfits.

Manish Malhotra is a dress designer who designs for all the big stars in Bollywood. Abu Jani, Neeta Lulla, Sandeep Khosla and Reza Shariff were the costume designers who did the designing for Devdas. The saree worn by Aishwarya in Devdas was 8-9 meters long as compared to the usual 6 meters. Costume designing is not only for the heroines. Each look of the heroes nowadays is also designed by costume designers. Hritik has 15 get ups in Dhoom 2 and each one has been well planned. The most difficult costume to wear was the mermaid outfit worn by Shilpa Shetty. A star wears his make up first and then the costume. Makeup in bollywood is done for all the stars and there is no gender bias. Shah Rukh was the first to have a hair stylist all for himself for Mohabatein. Stars have been known for growing their hair long for some roles and to have chopped their hair for some roles. Salman went Bald for Tere Naam. Hritik grew his hair for Krrish and Dhoom 2. Aamir grew his hair and moustache for Mangal Pandey. Kajol supported short hair for Dushman where she played a double role. Most difficult and time consuming make up done in bollywood have been the tiger transformation make up done on Rahul Roy and the different get ups done for Hritik in Dhoom 2.

India has still not reached a stage where body wears make up. Women love make up but still prefer their natural looks. A lot of women just don’t wear any make up of any sought but then bollywood stars have their own charisma. Every individual is a fan of some star or the other and so as long as there is make up in bollywood there will be a big market for make up in the country too. India is an ever-growing country and the cosmetics industry is growing in full swing in India too.

Kaajal for the eyes and mehndi for the hands may be the Indian Look for women but hey nothing is only for the women these days. Men too wear a lot of kaajal and mehndi is no more restricted to the hands. Mehndi tattoos are made on the bellies, arms and the back. Again jewels are not only for the women. Men wear earrings too these days. Salman Khan looks cool with an earring on one of his ears. Piercing their belly buttons, eyes and chin used to be the fashion in the west but it has become such a craze in India too.

Urmila Matondkar brought in Hair colours when she did Rangeela. Still today hair coloring is a big thing and every body is doing it. Streaks to funky styles anything that’s different is in. Before Urmila it was Dimple Kapadia who brought in the fashion of wavy hair cut in steps. Akshay Khanna brought in the style of the short crop and Rahul Roy brought in the long haired look. Aamir brought in the Goat beard look and Abhishek the hair band look.

Make up and costumes are tools which these stars have in their hands which the use to mesmerize the crowd. Guess who benefits from all this copy cat business the garments and accessories businesses. Whether a big manufacturer or small each one brings out the ditto copy of what ever the hero or heroine wears and that too in different prize ranges. If the Dhoom 2 collection is on sale at the pantaloons, Sarees worn by Ash and Madhuri are available at every garment store in any bazaar in any city or town of the country. Accessories too are copied without any hesitation. A college bag carried by a heroine in one of the movies is a transparent bag. Next thing walk into any college and you will find similar bags every where. High heeled shoes in funky colours to pretty little hand bags which can only hold few credit cards, to neck long earrings everything is in. A star has it and is wearing it then I have to have it too is he style mantra of the latest generation.

Love make up costumes then just search a ladies hand bag and you will be surprised what all you can find in there??????