O SO done, but OK!
Kudos to SRK, FK, OK and whichever other Ks were there in the film 'Om Shanti Om'! They have managed to pull off a very average idea, script, story…and how!
The film doesn't really contribute anything new to Bollywood in any sense, it only derives its stuff from a score of stories, dialogues, acting styles, dresses that people have grown up with and therefore identify with. Clichés, spoofs, some chronologically incorrect settings, a standard Bollywood plot of the 70s, typical dresses – Farah Khan has used every trick in the trade to make it an out and out Bollywood Masala movie.
It is the typical 3 hour 'time-pass' movie that people go to the hall to enjoy, leaving their minds behind and disbelief suspended. As the heroine puts it beautifully 'Jab tum 50 maale ki building se koodte ho, tab main vishwas karti hoon; jab tum 100 gundon se akele ladte ho, tab main vishwas karti hoon!!!' ('I believe you when you jump off a 50 storied building, I believe you when you fight 100 goons singlehandedly')
However the plot, dialogues and a good performance by debutante Deepika notwithstanding, I don't think anyone else could have pulled off the thing besides SRK. And that is because he has practically the entire industry supporting him. The scale would be grand if nothing else. Take out the 31 stars song, the Filmfare awards scene, guest appearances by practically anyone who's someone in the industry, 'that 70s show' and the much touted 6/8 pack (whatever) of SRK, and you would be left with nothing much to write home about.
So ultimately it boils down to scale, masala, a li'l bit o'everything for everyone, SRK the entertainer, time pass and the quintessentially Bollywood HAPPY ENDING!!
(PS: By the way, possibly the last point is the reason why Saawaria failed, especially as the somber ending might not have gone with the festive Diwali mood)
posted by daviejones at 2:05 AM
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OK, your very last point will be the reason I won't watch Saawariya. Not because I know it has a sad ending, but because thanks to you, I now KNOW the ending.
I am not a fan of SRK so much, and definitely had zero expectations from this movie. That's probably why I enjoyed the movie for whatever little it had to offer.
hehe, i know, and i also found it good tp.
As for the Saawaria, sorry :P
Jo
I likeyed the movie.
FK wrote 10 scenes that she thought should be in the movie, strung them together using one common thread in the form of SRK and voila! There was OSO.
Am looking forward to Jodha Akbar. Hrithik is the only actor that ever looked dishy with a moustache. It is so sexy and pointy.
BTW, did you see the NDTV Imagine promo during the movie?
And visit my blog too!!
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn!
Woohoooooooo!!!!!
:):):)
I loved OSO, by the way, and somehow can never understand the 'good movie-bad movie-TP movie' tripartite.
As for the deal about the movie not happening without SRK's clout, probably true, but I don't get as to why that is necessarily a bad thing.
For me, OSO is an intertextual reference to the hyperbole of Indian cinema, and in doing so, becomes a reference point to itself. Of course the settings are anachronistic, of course the themes are confused.. OSO is a tribute to humour, a movie that decides to laugh at itself, by laughing at Indian cinema, and vice-versa.
You're spot on about the suspension of disbelief, but why do our theories of narrative take on a tinge of condescension when talking about our cinema..We would never be as condescending towards Harry Potter, whose success is majorly due to this same suspension.
'Leaving minds behind' is an expression coined by an analyst of film that surely left his behind, to me its a refusal or inability to think hard!
Most of all, I liked the philosophy of the movie, Picture abhi baaki hain, mere dost.. Rings true.. Maybe its a reflection of some unfulfilled needs.
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