Re: [nukkad] Re: [Info] Rang de basanti....Delhi...

["RaginiC" <>]

> Even if it were for real...I think this headline is mighty stupid.
>
> For once we shoudl stop thinking in terms of bollywood!
>
> chandni
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Chandni,
You so rightly touched a topic which bugs me no end. You have to listen to 
my rant, please.

I wish we may do that some day.
It is high time to stop plagiarism of anything and everything by everyone, 
from each other at every given time and event in life.

There is so much missing in the name of originality.

Where do you start to stop:
Bollywood  a copy of hollywood...ok let us give it and say...it was one time 
(and good one at that) a symbolic global identification status effort.
But then Bollywood movies have been shameless and blatant copies of 
hollywood films....since anyone oldest  and eldest born on this list.
Bollywood copy largely successful south Indian films who in turn copy 
Bollywood too. Mutual appreciation here.

Bollywood musicians copy and lift tunes without a backbone, from south 
Indian tunes.
and without batting an eyelid from Hollywood films.
(They cross the extent when they copy and flatter themselves when they try 
to copy their own once-in-a-while-hit-tune the next year in the hope of 
getting another good hit again. (big time culprit in all categories of this 
copying: Anu Malik)

and then
Bollywood lyricists have  been falling short of words for penning original 
words and for the sake of being called lyricist they lift headers or stanzas 
from other good lyrics from the fraternity itself and fight for their stake 
on it.

Bollywood film names department exhausted the world wide quota for titles 
formation and all permutation combinations and recycling of successful words 
and the maze around it------long ago.
so there has been no hope in that department for long . They need to compile 
a new edition of title dictionary.
so they had to turn to a ridiculously insane original thought of conveying 
to us------the originally stupid audience----with the new world horizon of 
titles....'Jhankaar-The beats', 'Shakti-the power', 'Mangal Pandey-the 
rising' and the inane and senseless and no Hindi word 'Lucky--no time for 
love'.
And if we did not have enough of that translated information for our 
dud-heads we have the freshly-latestand mundane 'Tom-Dick-Harry' and 'Neil 
and Nicki'. (here I have to credit that 'Home Delivery' was original).

Legacy follows:
Television program industry's namo-logy lived/lives the same 
divinely-original-plagiarised path of their elder sibling.
One does not need to disect those same sentence long recycled titles...it 
will pain all of us.
The problem becomes larger here, as they are in your living room with those 
irriatingly repeated jingles promoting their soap operas EVERY DAY. The 
jingles are parodies of hit songs, copy of hit music, based on hit lyrics.
Based on each other, too, to outdo each other.
Dialogs are worded around hit jokes, hit film titles, scenes are larger than 
life -as larger than life in films.
grrrrrrrr
( rarely you have an original 'Daraar'-with original track of 'Rishton mein 
daraar aayii...' ofcourse from the inimitable Gulzar).
Entire tv programs are copied from international tv hits----right down to 
the set-design and light effects, title logos of international shows.
Stand-up comedy shows' comedies are parodies and parodies and parodies of 
Bollywood scenes, songs moments and imitations of Bollywood stars' personal 
and filmy  styles.

Baically any thing hit is film based and hence copied.

TV Commercials do not want to be left behind in this legendery history 
making. Please.
They also breathe the same air all over and all over in their jingles, if 
they are jingle based.
In a gist: parody of hit fim songs alone.
more grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
And when you get to see the lovely New York Life Insurance jingle ---it is a 
breath of fresh air with every new promotion.

so Chandni we breathe, eat and live films, its vicinity and its atmosphere.
It is our staple diet irrespective of caste, creed, social status, IQ level 
or anything.
We shamelessly thrive in it.
We have been accepting that trash for ages now.

So where do we begin to stop.
:(

(it is not that no where else in the world plagiarism is rampant in the same 
industry, but let us talk of the amount of it.)
Let us talk of some originality somewhere.

Ragini











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