One of Rediff's new tricks is to start a topic where they only seem to be interested in the public opinion. After a while it just begins to get on your nerves but sometimes it gets us to look into how naive and moronic our junta actually are. You will be surprised by some of the popular opinions out there.
One such topic for debate was to ponder aloud which indian movie needs to be India's official oscar entry. And some of the suggestions were steeped in ridiculosity.
Firstly, in my frank opinion, no Indian movie will ever get even remotely close to being in comparision with some of the movies that get made in other parts ofthe world - our movies are simply not good enough. Period.
Secondly, Lage Raho Munnabhai is never going to get an oscar-nod(these guys better be resigned to that!). The problem with the indian mass is that they have been fed the same old crap all the time that anytime something even remotely interesting comes up, they go ga-ga about it. For instance the tamil movie Gajini. The only 'original' part of the movie was the 'short-term-memory-loss' (when u know next to nothing, it is better to keep away from such ideas. It is ridiculous to see a doctor spouting the words, ' idha medical terms la short-term-memory-lossnu solluvaanga' !!) the rest of that movie- the indianized part was to put it mildly, crappy. No make it CRAPPY-AS-HELL!
Someone suggested that KANK would be a good choice because 'the theme is closer home to the western audience'!! Not only is this giving that nonsensical movie some credibility but it so typically stereotypes the western world itself! And there are several such idiots out there with such contorted opinions.
Some readers suggested Krrish....
I leave it to you to think this one out....
and hey, check out the Krrish review!