Indian Movies - Wish List
1 Comments Published by Prasad Venkat on Tuesday, February 07, 2006 at 7:33 PM.
No, it's not the list of movies I'd like to see. But some of the elements I'd like to see in a movie.
Drama - Movie characters developed with immense realism.
1) The make-up should be top class - you are convinced that if you step out of the house and stare, you can see one such face on the road.
2) The protagonists live in a rented house.
3) The hero borrows money to pay for his child's school fee - a pinch of embarrassment as he counts the money.
4) The mother ties the shoe laces as the child desperately drags to go to school.
5) Husband fights with his wife over an avoidable expense, cools down after a few minutes and seeks her acceptance with a romantic intention.
6) A family tragedy has happened, which the couple can't deal with. Their child says something that brings a new dimension to dealing with the tragedy.
7) The family sits down on the floor and eats together.
8.) The wife gossips about her neighbour's new dress with her husband - totally credible dialogues.
9) Photographer should not employ artificial lights. Just choose the time of the day appropriate for the shot.
10) The editor should allow the movie to unfold at a leisure pace and should make no concessions for the short memory span audience.
Comedy & Tragedy - My wish list is subjective, hey, but so is the nature of comedy & tragedy.
11) I like slapstick - I'll laugh if somebody falls down or hits a pillar - as long as it's absolutely believable.
12) When I'm not laughing, I should be smiling.
13) I don't care about logic as long as it's authentic funny. If the comedy is logical, it adds value.
14) The characters performing shouldn't be laughing. That's such a bad idea. Especially if it's a bad joke, only the people on the screen laugh and that all the more irritates me.
15) Timing - self explanatory.
16) No tragic scenes of love failures, mother deaths, father abuses etc. I have an inherent hatred for cliches.
17) I am moved when somebody falls down or hits a pillar - as long as the scene is believable and the character development is complete.
18.) Actors don't cry, but emote extremely well, so that I identify with the on-screen person completely and cry for him/her.
19) Capture the thin veil of sadness lying beneath the common man who aspires to be a superstar. It's very difficult but pays off extremely well.
20) No song when a tragedy strikes. The most stupidest time to sit through a song.
Songs, Sex & Violence - Essential Indian movie masala ingredients.
21) Continuing [20], I don't want a song following a good comedy scene. That director should have mercy upon us.
22) Songs with meaningful lyrics, sung by artistes who know the language and recorded in such a way that the music doesn't mask the words.
23) Screenplay very sneakily makes room for the audience to open their 'imagination doors' and slides the song.
24) When the song is over, the screenplay should carefully bring the audience back to the story instead of bouncing them with a 'twist scene' immediately after a song.
25) Songs should be a welcome break, not a bathroom break.
26) The producers think that a macho man showing his muscle mass will attract girls. The producers think that a fine female form with minimum dress will make the teen boys to flock to the theatres. Here's a cardinal rule: Sex appeal is not in showing off skin.
27) Dear director, if you think a couple wearing flimsy material singing duet under an artificial waterfall is sexy..... you're simply wasting film reels and water. How about using your brain for a change? Or at least, look at French romantic dramas in the past ten years. If they don't teach you, it simply means you don't have any good taste.
28.) Hi photographer, shooting in a semi-dark room using a cool blue filter is so Web0.5. Please graduate.
29) Fights need to be over the top, like in Chinese kung-fu movies, that you either laugh at them or adore the choreography, or should be gritty realistic like in Mahanadhi. Stunts in mainstream movies have become such a bore.
30) Any fight sequence shouldn't cross the 3-minute mark. Anything longer than that is brain damage.
Drama - Movie characters developed with immense realism.
1) The make-up should be top class - you are convinced that if you step out of the house and stare, you can see one such face on the road.
2) The protagonists live in a rented house.
3) The hero borrows money to pay for his child's school fee - a pinch of embarrassment as he counts the money.
4) The mother ties the shoe laces as the child desperately drags to go to school.
5) Husband fights with his wife over an avoidable expense, cools down after a few minutes and seeks her acceptance with a romantic intention.
6) A family tragedy has happened, which the couple can't deal with. Their child says something that brings a new dimension to dealing with the tragedy.
7) The family sits down on the floor and eats together.
8.) The wife gossips about her neighbour's new dress with her husband - totally credible dialogues.
9) Photographer should not employ artificial lights. Just choose the time of the day appropriate for the shot.
10) The editor should allow the movie to unfold at a leisure pace and should make no concessions for the short memory span audience.
Comedy & Tragedy - My wish list is subjective, hey, but so is the nature of comedy & tragedy.
11) I like slapstick - I'll laugh if somebody falls down or hits a pillar - as long as it's absolutely believable.
12) When I'm not laughing, I should be smiling.
13) I don't care about logic as long as it's authentic funny. If the comedy is logical, it adds value.
14) The characters performing shouldn't be laughing. That's such a bad idea. Especially if it's a bad joke, only the people on the screen laugh and that all the more irritates me.
15) Timing - self explanatory.
16) No tragic scenes of love failures, mother deaths, father abuses etc. I have an inherent hatred for cliches.
17) I am moved when somebody falls down or hits a pillar - as long as the scene is believable and the character development is complete.
18.) Actors don't cry, but emote extremely well, so that I identify with the on-screen person completely and cry for him/her.
19) Capture the thin veil of sadness lying beneath the common man who aspires to be a superstar. It's very difficult but pays off extremely well.
20) No song when a tragedy strikes. The most stupidest time to sit through a song.
Songs, Sex & Violence - Essential Indian movie masala ingredients.
21) Continuing [20], I don't want a song following a good comedy scene. That director should have mercy upon us.
22) Songs with meaningful lyrics, sung by artistes who know the language and recorded in such a way that the music doesn't mask the words.
23) Screenplay very sneakily makes room for the audience to open their 'imagination doors' and slides the song.
24) When the song is over, the screenplay should carefully bring the audience back to the story instead of bouncing them with a 'twist scene' immediately after a song.
25) Songs should be a welcome break, not a bathroom break.
26) The producers think that a macho man showing his muscle mass will attract girls. The producers think that a fine female form with minimum dress will make the teen boys to flock to the theatres. Here's a cardinal rule: Sex appeal is not in showing off skin.
27) Dear director, if you think a couple wearing flimsy material singing duet under an artificial waterfall is sexy..... you're simply wasting film reels and water. How about using your brain for a change? Or at least, look at French romantic dramas in the past ten years. If they don't teach you, it simply means you don't have any good taste.
28.) Hi photographer, shooting in a semi-dark room using a cool blue filter is so Web0.5. Please graduate.
29) Fights need to be over the top, like in Chinese kung-fu movies, that you either laugh at them or adore the choreography, or should be gritty realistic like in Mahanadhi. Stunts in mainstream movies have become such a bore.
30) Any fight sequence shouldn't cross the 3-minute mark. Anything longer than that is brain damage.
This is cool...I thought that you would list down a few movies...but you delivered a surprise with the wish-list of elements rather than that of entities...
Cheers
Varaha.