A Tribute to Posters

Saw oye lucky!lucky oye today which made me realize some thing about multiplex films and that is the language . We don’t have a standardized hindi film hindi anymore whether it is the hyderabadi hindi of the Hyderabad blues or the punjabised hindi of khaosla ka ghosla or oye lucky...... even mainstream cinema now has a a lot of hinglish. Film songs have lines which have English words woven casually into the lyrics and this not to be cool but just to be more realistic like in Bunty aur Bubli where there is a line which goes khali bore dopharoan se or the song kajrare in the same film has a line which says "personal se saval karte hain"where personal sound more like pershnal making it authentic to the character.

All this kinda reflects the comfort we now have with the medium and the ability to express ourselves in a way which does not conform to any given rules on language.Would it be right then to say that hindi films are slowly becoming fully Indian?
Are we unconsciously witnessing a major change in linguistic structures itself with the old style All India radio hindi being the base and these other dialects form the super structure. Many times while watching multiplex hindi films I have a problem in understanding some of the jokes because the slang is specific to certain regions of the country that its lost in translation for the rest of us. Making me feel like a certain amout of distance has creeped in betweem me and a very close friend of mine.
Growing up in South India hindi films was one of the most important learning tools to pass my hindi exams and I am not the only one who did it ,everyone around me watched hindi films as a learning tool so guess, its time for us to do a refresher course.

Dil se is a movie which as a film may not have been that good but two things which were outstanding in the film were its music and cinematography. One of the scenes which, I always remeber because of how real it felt even when I was watching it, was when Shah Rukh Khan brings two cups of tea for Monisha Koirala and himself in the railway station , but by this time she has already got into the train and Shah Rukh tries to locate her, it is pouring at this point and rain drops fall into the cup which makes the tea kind off splash on his hand . This made me wince with that feeling of tingling pain even when I was only watching the film.

The other thing in the film which I reaaallly loved were the colours especially in the song Dil Se re.... in one particular sequence its all brown and kind of autumish because of the fallen leaves which gives an eerie feeling of death and destruction bombs keep exploding in the vicinity and more leaves fly around the place and in all this chaos is Manish koirala in a beautifull pink chifon salwar kameez and pearls looking innocent and the colour baby pink on her giving that feeling of hope and life is a beautifull contrast .Colours are used so beautifully here to potray the mood and emotion of the film that we dont even conciously realise why it has such an effect on us.

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Watching T.V and movies is more than a hobby for me, it is usually my main activity on any given day so I though why restrict my obssion to myself why not unleash it on the world so here I am.This blog will attempt an extremly pretentious analysis of films and other art forms. The analysis will be based on a very scientific method called" waste theories" which was developed by T,irwog and me in college.
Now to the main question as to why you would want to read my blog. I dont know....