‘Murder’ in Chennai would be labelled softporn and will star Shakeela. Seriously.. there are Mallu movies with better storylines but much worse production values.

Bose would be labelled ‘Art’ and would star some nondescript stage actor and the movie will sleep with the fishes…. pretty much like how ‘kamaraj’ was treated.

Conversely, movies like ‘Arul’ and ‘Giri’ would have *deols as heros and heroines and will run to packed houses till taran Adarsh trashes them.

Movie such as ‘Autograph’ and ‘Ammu’ and ‘Malli’ will have actors who are not even recognized in the North and will be treatd that way even in discussion threads. (imagine if Malli had ben made with Rani… I am sure it would have made a better movie than Black.) Ayesha came into popularity because of her cleavage shot for the initial promos for the ALW musical.

Even gyms those days played great movies such as “Missing in action 1,2,3.. (wonder how many wars he had been in…)” and any movie title with the word “Vengeance” in it.

- “Bloodfeather… I watched it 63 times..” or so spoke a 1970s movie producer.

Visited ur site and read ur review for ‘The Motorcycle Diaries’ and liked it.Its good to know that people do watch such films and reveiw it.Good effort.What amazed me abt the movie was the way the director unfolded the chain of incidents that turned che gu vera into a revolutionist which he beame later.Any movie u know which depicts his later part of life, i mean after Che became revolutionist?.This kind of films dont take away ur time, infact they make ur time valuable.

I fully agree with ur message.
Katz also knows the truth, but he dont want to accept that.His list of directors made me think tat katz must be having a great sense of humour.

Hi Lazy,

Please see ‘The Motor Cycle Diaries’ and write ur review.It is one of the most inspiring movies of last year abt the cuban revolutist ‘Che gu vera’.(spelling might be wrong).I never seen a film like this in my entire life.This film is from Spain if i am not wrong and belongs to road film genre.

Very important film for film lovers all over the world.

And ‘Sideways’ from US which Sujatha recommended in katradum petradum’ is another gem.

Shireesh,balaji,nomad
You guys are right bollywood is taking more good movies compared to tamil.The reason is cause it is a bigger market and all the regional directors who made it big in there states , venture into bollywood to reach a wider audience, that includes maniratnam,ram gopal verma,priyadarshan and the hordes of the brilliant bengalis.

But in recent years things have really changed in bollywood.There is a scilent new cinema wave happening.Bollywood is taking the usual “pyar” series movies and soft porns but apart from it.it is coming out with historical movies(Th Raising,taj mahal, Bose), novel adaptations(parineeta,paheli),movies like HKA, black etc which are nothing like the movies that we have seen before.And off course the parallel movies are still there and the encouraging thing is that they are getting released in mainstream.