2018 has been a heart warming year for the content lovers .
Movies like Badhaai Ho ,Andhadhun ,Tumbbad and Padman to name a few had a
different content to show. These were stories written and executed with great
creative intent. After the largely dull
2017 it was like Bollywood was delivering a great form of apology to us
audiences and for such movies going to theaters in 2018 was a heart warming and
exciting exercise. For a lot of us
ardent movie lovers it was like 2018 might become a kind of benchmark year for
makers when different content like Parmanu and Padman worked at the box office.
Then came the A-listers with their hyped over budget good
for nothing cinema and literally crashed the party ,like a mannerless chief
guest landing on the party cake. This
has been the sad part those who once literally held Bollywood together and
could be trusted for entertaining content in their own defined genres were the
biggest villains of drag and failed cinema of 2018.
The first one was Salman Khan himself, the man who has been
running on fire at the gold office for so many years now. A golden run which
started with Dabangg almost ten years ago seems to be ending in such a ironic
manner. Race3 is the benchmark of duds this year and probably for some years to
come. Salman’s cinema never really runs on logic but this one had things gone
bit too far. Over priced tickets ,large screen count and a 3D format could not
save it because audiences wanted content. Salman led the charge of garbage in
that sense from A listers this year.
Then came Yashraj Films with Thugs Of Hindostan. As a
Bollywood follower the failure of this gigantic directionless ship of a movie
would not have hurt you so much had it not been such a historic significance
movie. This was the coming together of two of our greatest content generated
superstars. Amitabh and Aamir. We expected a lot and the first mistake was to
trust a average director like Vijay Krishna Acharya with a good watchable movie
forget a classic. The hype about the making did not really show on the screen,
in fact this one had careless execution and rank arrogance written all over it.
Two Point Zero came and as of now the good news about it is
that at least it will make money at the box office. Made at a gigantic budget
of 550 crores its box office numbers as of now, however celebrated they are
with certain section of the media – are no great shakes. Having said that at
least the makers of this movie cannot be labeled as flop. Still when you look
at it with the perspective of hype, the fact that this one was helmed by
director Shankar – this one is another very average screenplay riding on luck
and a gigantic worldwide screen count of 10500 plus screens. Having said that
this one too was a disappointment from an A lister team. The arrogance comes
from the fact that its makers still compare it with Baahubali and it is nowhere
near Baahubali on pure content value.
The problem of our better known makers can be traced to
Manmohan Desai, once a ruler of box office he did not realize that audiences
were slowly getting bored of his lost and found themes. His drama content was
getting repetitive and dragged. The first warning signal came when Ganga Jamuna
Saraswati bombed at the box office. Legend has it that when Toofan was being
released Amitabh pointed out to Manmohan Desai that final product was not
looking good. To which Desai replied audiences will watch what I will show
them. Toofan was a tragedy at box office.
Our current A listers are not really learning the lessons.
Look at the trailer of Simmba , it is rape and revenge. A theme that I guess
properly worked at the box office last time in Aakhiri Raasta ? Sure Simmba could work at the box office
because the makers will ensure we don’t get to see anything else on a new year
weekend. Is this what they are all
about? The party spoilers of 2018 Bollywood ?
No comments:
Post a Comment