What is something movies always get wrong?

 This is how bollywood depicts Army.

Seriously, what do you mean by it?

According to Bollywood logic Chief of the Army staff is walking with a “Major”?

From what day Major is a four star rank?

Why Mr. BSF is having a hairstyle?

Have only officers fought the war or were there JCOs and ORs too?

Order is an order, hierarchy is everything in army, no one speaks dialogues like “khoon ki akhri boond” and etcetera.

What a scene! Without any formation Pakistani soldiers are standing showing their chests, like, come kill us?

What a vision Sunny Deol has! He can see the thumbs up of pilot inside his cockpit.

Unless you are from Sikh regiment, you are not allowed to keep beard. What is so special with Bachchan Sahab?

Are you using your brain bollywood? A girl is dancing in army camp? Neither does a camp like this exist and nor does real army think up such idiotic ideas.

So Why are they Saluting like navy (one like airforce and army)? And Mr. Shetty you will not find your salute in any armed forces!

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I am not vituperating the quality of bollywood. It has given many wonderful movies. But only for earning huge sum of money you are diluting your content.

If can’t depict reality then be away and make war documentaries. No army camp has a girl dancing and no major will allow something like that.

You make an actor wear insignia of Colonel, give him duties of a Major and call him a Captain, how contradictory is that?

Collect factual information before depicting something or you are just stealing the valour of the soldiers who died protecting you.

Where did hotels clearly go wrong?

 1. What good photos can fake:

2. If the cleaning staff doesn't speak English very well:

3. The bathroom in our hotel:

4. And the staircase in our hotel:

5. Obviously, this is a real "mini-bar":

6. In case of fire, please close the door quietly:

7. If, for some reason, your hotel room bathroom has a strange window:

8. The carpet has an interesting pattern:

9. The hotel's luggage cart appears to have run someone over:

10. A pool. With a pool in it:

What do Indian directors almost always do wrong when making a biopic?

120 Bahadur is based on legend of Rezang La in Ladakh.

Famous : 120 Bahadur is based on legend of Major Shaitan Singh and his valiant troops.

These 20 brave hearts. from Kumaon Regiment took on a division of Chinese army during 1962 war.

They fought to their last breath and their bodies were located holding guns and national flag.

Their unseen bravery earned him super heroic status.

Interestingly, their bravery earned praise from Chinese army also.

Film : Well, Farhan Akhtar made 120 Bahadur based on battle of Rezang La.

Well, he enacted role of Major Shaitan Singh who earned Param Vir Chakra (posthumous)

It had many actors who supported main lead.

Flop : But, biopic met with controversy. There were protests against it in some states.

Family members, close acquaintances and army veterans didn’t like this movie.

Many felt , it was romantic themed rather than serious war movie.

Critics point out, it was neither promoted well nor had good music and direction.

Facts : Biopics are based on well researched subjects.

It is about legends that often change fate of a historic event.

A biopic is not merely about a protagonist ; but people; who impact him.

A biopic needs seasoned film maker; who can articulate facts without any controversy.

Prayer : Salutations to 120 brave hearts ! Jai Hind !

Pic Credits : Google Images / Web

What is wrong with Bollywood?

 Everything is copied from either South or Hollywood

• The movie Notebook is copied from the Hollywood movie , even the name is same.

• Dil Bechara is copied from the The Fault in our Stars.

• The new movie of Shanaya Kapoor, Tu Ya Main is a direct remake of Thai movie The Pool.

• Salman Khan's movie Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi ki Jaan is just an overglorified remake of the South movie Katamarayudu. ( Salman Bhai account ban mat karwa dena)

And the list goes on…….

Image Sources : Google

What is wrong with Bollywood?

 I recently saw the trailer of the much anticipated movie- Kedarnath.

And something which I intuitively wanted to see was how sensitively it deals and addresses the tragedy of the Kedarnath floods.

Well! Let’s have a quick, IMPORTANT fact check

1. More than 5,700 people were feared to have died during the massive floods.
2. More than 4,000 people were recorded as 'lost' and are still not found.
3. More than 12,000 houses were damaged.
4. Stranded people were looted, women were raped, dead bodies were mutiliated so that the jewelry worn could be stolen.
5. It incurred a loss of more than INR 12,000 crores to the state.

It was an event which sent waves of emotional trauma across the lengths and breadths of our nation.

It was an incident mourned by people.

So many families were seperated, children became parentless and what not.

It was one of the worst tragedies of India in the 21st century.

In a nutshell,

THE FLOODS AT KEDARNATH WERE A FREAKING TRAGEDY AND NOT A HYPOTHETICAL PLOT TO SET UP YET ANOTHER LOVE STORY.

But, but, but, our Bollywood pays very little, I should rather say, the least bit of mercy towards events with a traumatic past.

Digging up a love story at every and any place IS NOT A GOOD IDEA.

Bollywood, please learn to respect the sentiments of the people who feed your industry.

A steamy kissing scene to grab eyeballs won’t do any good.

If you really had plans to make a movie on this tragedy, you should have done it on the real life heroes who saved people during that peak time of hopelessness- be it Army, NGOs, individuals who saved even a single life!

That would have earned you much more respect in the eyes of the audience than a love story set in a tragic setting against your stereotypical popular idea of sensationalising every issue.

1. Economic disparity between the hero and heroine? Check.
2. Religious differences between the hero and heroine? Check.
3. A contemporary issue to grab attention of people? Check.

With the tagline ‘Love is a pilgrimage’, the film is reportedly a unique love story of a Muslim pithoo (Sushant) and a Hindu tourist (Sara), set in the backdrop of the Uttarakhand floods that left the state devastated in 2013.

An incident which left more than 5000 people dead, 22,000 stranded is not something that should be go down the history as one on which a freakin' love story was made.

Just for a moment stop tainting every serious issue with a romantic lens.

Not every issue is meant to be romanticised and sold to the masses.

Respect the emotional upheaval and painful memories people have with such a sorrowful incident.

Grow up Bollywood.

Footnotes:

Kedarnath is not an everyday love story, says producer Pragya Kapoor

Kedarnath poster: Sushant Singh Rajput and Sara Ali Khan rework Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol’s DDLJ pose

Uttarakhand-Indian Army

https://samvada.org/2013/news/50-photos-indian-army-rss-rescue-operation-at-kedarnath-rescue-operation-uttarakhand/

Uttarakhand Floods: Indian Army - The Unsung Heroes

What is something movies always get wrong?

 FEMINISM

Bollywood movies have a warped understanding of the term Feminism. I have come across a lot of instances in Bollywood movies that purport feminism but actually end up making the audience cringe.

This is a scene from the movie Ye Jawaani Hai Dewaani.

The girl suddenly turns back and starts reprimanding the kid standing behind her for apparently staring at her legs. She makes him apologise in front of everyone and orders him to go to a different counter.

And then look at what she does.

The kid is literally minding his own business. She goes and harasses him by pinching his waist!

Dafaq? That’s manhandling and touching without consent. The kid may or may not have stared at her legs, but she legitimately harassed and bullied him in front of everyone. The same situation with the roles reversed cannot be imagined (and of course, shouldn’t happen either)!

Dear Bollywood,

Feminism IS standing up to men.

Feminism IS NOT bullying men.

Edit: Oh my goodness. I can't believe the coincidence

What went wrong with Vijay Mallya?

 

• Vijay Mallya was the son of Vittal Mallya and his 2nd wife Lalitha Mallya.
• After his father's death, Vijay Mallya becomes UB group chairman at 25, which was around 19,000 crore in 1983.
• In 2003 , he introduced Kingfisher airlines and in 2005 one flight was taken by Kingfisher airlines.
  Good Fleet of service, good air hostesses,top class furnishings.

• He used to take interviews of air hostesses by himself. He had Flambyont image.

• Here are the few points due to which Kingfisher airlines went into problems:

1. Kingfisher airlines is the mismangement which turned into scam.

• It was running in all the non-profitable routes.I think there was some ego , where they thought, where no one will go , Kingfisher will go.
• There was no sustainable business model.Regularly asking for bail out packages.

• If we compare Indigo business model and Kingfisher Business model, Indigo has same fleet for all the people, while Kingfisher keeps on switching between Low cost fleet or Premium fleet. This was the reason, there was no standardization in Kingfisher airlines and ease of operation was bad.

• He never use to go to Rajya Sabha nor to his company. He was busy mostly in parties.

2. Mistake of Acquisition and expansion.

• Acquisition of Deccan and expansion Internationally was the big MISTAKE. It was already in loss and instead of making corrections in business model, it started acquiring and expansion, resulted in further loss.
• Kingfisher Red (Deccan) vs Kingfisher Airlines : Both confused people due to same name of deccan and kingfisher. As a result , there was competition between the two airlines and people switched to other airlines.
• As we all know, Expansion without gross margin is comitting suicide.This is the reason of failure for all the startups. They keep on investing and expanding , without thinking of their margin.

3. Fast Cash and low Profit:

And when , 2008 recession came, economic slowdown resulted in downfall of airline industries and as already Kingfisher airlines was in loss, it started losing its customers .Fuel prices hiked and Vijay Mallya was unable to pay the loans and salaries of employees.

These are the few reasons which resulted in the downfall of Kingfisher Airlines and hence Vijay Mallya.

Source : क्यों डूबी Kingfisher Airlines Case Study by Dr Vivek Bindra