Analysing films

Saturday evening was Kick time. One line, before I proceed further, how I wished Nawazuddin had more screen time. Everytime he came our Sallu Bhai paled. But I think the producers would have got an hunch of that and in the rushes and the edit board, they would have all gagged up and mercilessly chopped his portions. It was evident throughout the movie. What a pity! Rest of the movie ordinary, banal, bland, mundane...A classic Sallu mindless poitboiler, in which there is nothing much to be written about. The script is by Saman Khan, for Salman Khan and of(f) Salman Khan. Templated stuff like the ppt templates which come with every MS office. His last couple of releases are on the same line. The only change, the lead lady changes, the periphery changes, the context pretty much remains the same and that is about it. The best part, when you watch pre release interviews or promo shows, where everybody is try is rationalise every mindless caper going on through out the film. Am sure t

We are half way into 2014 and the kind of stuff that hindi film industry is producing, we have to go through the trials and tribulations of one trash can after another. Generating mindless, senseless and utterly tasteless cinema, which least of all fails to even entertain. Take for instance a guy like Sajid Khan, I thought his Housefull franchise was a mindless caper, but at least it entertained. Even, he seems to have run into a creative menopause. Production houses, big directors and producers have all for long been suffering from a dilemma or a trap perhaps, which I call "Hash-Mash and Market" (HMM) syndrome. The HMM format is simple, take any contextual setting (do not go far, pick up any Dharma Productions or YRF or Sajid Nadiadwala Grandsons or Eros or ...) and set your protagonist in the context and let the three things do the rest, an item number (with or without the Canadian import), a glitzy setting (classic backdrops, great designer, great looks and great props)