Comments on: Acting Badly in Bollywood

By: The Great Ganesha

The Great Ganesha — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 16:17:19 +0000

skepticus:

as you well know, i am quite familiar with that concept, since i have the dubious honor of being somewhat of a (un?)successful practitioner in the field. in fact, i gave it that label myself.

your comparison is original, if nothing else…but what if your comment itself is just one bad joke? and i fall for it. then that in itself becomes a good, bad joke.

brilliant!

-gg

By: Skepticus

Skepticus — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 12:33:59 +0000

I think one needs to be familiar with the concept of a “good bad joke” to fully understand that Bollywood acting must be judged on a different level entirely. A “good bad joke” simply defined, is a well crafted groaner – one that is so bad that it makes you laugh in sheer wonder that it exists. Similarly the worse Bollywood “acting” is, the better it is. It must NOT be believable, it must be hammed. If a Bollywood actor makes you forget that you are watching a performance, he or she has failed.

By: Silberfish

Silberfish — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 18:42:29 +0000

Ugh. No 36 China Town. Avoid. Low mental effort.

By: The Great Ganesha

The Great Ganesha — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:13:00 +0000

cyberkitty – thanks for that. i’ll certainly check it out. always want to watch good a bollywood film (keyword there being good). i don’t think i’ve even heard of that one. but then again, i am a pakka nri!

By: cyberkitty

cyberkitty — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 07:23:43 +0000

Check out 36 China Town, even though it did’nt do too well at the box office, i thought it was a good film

By: The Great Ganesha

The Great Ganesha — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 17:57:35 +0000

oh yeah, yeah. you’re right. it was ‘company’ that you had not seen.

hmm, i’m willing to let little things like that slide IF the overall movie works. will definitely check it out. but now i’m not so sure how much i’ll enjoy it, since i’ll be looking out through the entire movie for that maruti!

By: The Simple Leaf

The Simple Leaf — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 12:35:06 +0000

You must have. Although I saw Sarkar on a plane from LA to Singapore! Parineeta’s cool because it’s set in Cal and there’s a few great shots of the city. However, despite their best efforts at making this a period piece, there’s a couple of scenes where saif ali khan is driving down the street in his “present-day” vintage car, and you see a Maruti whizzing by in the background!

By: The Great Ganesha

The Great Ganesha — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 04:42:19 +0000

yup, saw sarkar. in fact, wasn’t i the one who recommended it to you? haven’t seen parinita, though. will check it out, soon.

By: The Simple Leaf

The Simple Leaf — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 20:55:56 +0000

Have you seen Parineeta? Or Bollywood’s self-admitted homage to Godfather – “Sarkar”? I quite enjoyed those two.

Btw, Russell Peters summarizes Bollywood’s formulaic film-making here…quite hilarious.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGIJN0b3pMo&eurl=