Comments on: Why film abroad?

By: varnachitram » Guest Review: Thanmatra

varnachitram » Guest Review: Thanmatra — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 18:09:20 +0000

[...] All the songs in this movie, tuned by Mohan Sithara, are apt and dont seem to have been introduced for the sake of it. The best is easily the Kattu Vizhie Kannamma song which has also been choreographed beautifully. Songs picturised with such realism and devoid of any artificiality are rare. Over the past few years, Malayalam songs picturisations have been blindly aping their Tamil counterparts. (In a recent movie, it has been taken to new levels by shooting a song in foreign location with the hero and heroine attempting a Shahrukh and Kajol) [...]

By: vc

vc — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 01:42:06 +0000

Unnikrishnan,

LOL!

Imagine the plight of the natives of these countries. They might be on their way to regular grocery shopping and you see Dileep and Kavya in eastman color dresses dancing their way to glory. The image of India as a developed country needs no other advertisments.

By: Unnikrishnan G Nair

Unnikrishnan G Nair — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 01:41:44 +0000

Filming songs in foreign locales have become a craze amongst film makers of late. Dont know, if it is the crazy idea of a producer who feels that his movie will have a great glossy look if the songs are filmed outside, or if it is the idea of the directors and the all mighty heroes, who want to visit a foreign location at the cost of a man who unfortunately had to place all his hard earned money in making a film. We had movies being shot in foreign countries earlier days also, but it was made in such a way that the need of the foreign country was needed. As per the story then, the protagonist of the movie had to go there to earn or something like that and so a foreign location. Many movies were made in the gulf and the united states of america. But now in the name of shooting songs in foreign locations, our heroes and heroines are made the biggest comedians as they dance all of a sudden in a road junction or in front of a building that has no importance for people there. And these are the locations, ‘the art director and the director finalize after a lot of search’.. what a joke!! You can see people staring at them as if ‘here is another group dancing to make money’!! Thanks to our indian film making, many a street dancing and street music groups have lost their only way of making money!!

By: karthiksn

karthiksn — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 01:41:17 +0000

i understand wat u say but u see most of the songs in films are placed uselessly so if u can put it uselessly atleast make it look that is my point of view and i wud not definately want malayalam films to go like hindi and tamil films(i watch all three of these language pictures). I belive story wise malalam films are lot better compared to hindi films

By: vc

vc — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 01:40:37 +0000

karthiksn,

we are not againt shooting abroad. this technique of just shooting some songs abroad is just an irritation as it does not blend with the story. (most songs filmed inside India also don’t blend with the story, that is a separate issue).

the goal of malayalam cinema should not be to imitate tamil/hindi cinema which cater to people with different tastes, but instead come up with something much more creative.

if malayalam movies were the only ones around, this technique would have worked. but with the proliferation of other language channels, people can see bigger budgets tamil and hindi movies with excellent picturization abroad. so the uniqueness factor is also not there.

By: karthiksn

karthiksn — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 01:40:07 +0000

The question is that malayalam films have been said to be the low budget without all the fancies of hindi films also tamil films normally have. But i feel someone will make the difference by making a movie with big budget and shooting in other countries so its not that a bad idea