Long have i wondered why the directors in indian language movies never make a movie, which does not have a concept of hero and his lover ,for any kind of story. Well i atleast have a answer partially answered now.
One of the main reason with respect to regional language movies having same type of story is the lack in trust for viewers intelligence. Long has there been debate on this and many good filmakers arguing that its a excuse given by other for lack in their risk taking capability.
If you take a look at some of the movies with very good story and amazing performance,they have consistently been flop in box office,they later become good movie after critics review. One of best example in that kind is movie “Anbe Sivam” i don’t even know that movie was released in my town,as it was shown for just 3 days. But it later on became best movie acted by kamal hassan ,only next to nayagan. So i see the point why many talented director are still hanging on to the same old line.
Ok why am i whining about this now,today i went to a tamil movie called “Madrasapattinam” well its not a great new story the same old love story with parents of girl opposing it and a villan.There difference here was the movie is set in 1947 so point was to capture viewers in that worl while you let pass the sotry along with it. While the screenplay was commendable,i will give 2/5 for the movie just for one reason,there were few scenes copied from hollywood hits. A scene from titanic in which the flashback ends with eyes of actress.,another was from apocalypto where hero runs for his life while police shooting at him.Its such a nice movie spolied by these copied scenes while i am sure the director could have come up with better one.
Ok coming back to the point,there was a scene during the climax where actress(old lady) faints of and her eye closes. The screen is blacked out to represent it from actress eyes while the audio was heard from other speaking to her. While this happened almost all in the theater started shouting towards projector room for black out thinking its his mistake. People could not even relate to such a simple scene,how will they even understand if the movie is made without typical hero heroin mix.
I agree if you say that someone has to bear the initial loss for future welfare but then creators should be producers ,that is the reason we still get some good movies occasionally. Until then we have to be happy with “3 fights,5 songs mix some sentiment and comedy”
