Kalam Tujhe Salaam A tribute

Indian Children cinema needs to evolve, In accord to Hollywood Counterpart

Kid’s movie genre in India still lags behind a lot, if we compare it with Hollywood contemporaries. It is nowhere near to Big Hollywood giants like ‘Disney’s Pixar studio and’ Dreamworks Studio who mainly creates magic with Kids Movies. This is because In India, there is not much awareness about Kids genre and still the producers fear to invest money in it. If we talk about Indian people, their mentality about children movie is that it’s just for children entertainment and even children don’t give much

importance to it. We a country of Young People where  20 Crores are just children who loves to watch Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, Disney Kids, Hungama and Animax channels. But what they actually see in these channels are dubbed children contents imported from countries like U.S, Japan and U.K etc. So even they hardly get to see Original Kids content in India. It primarily means that there is a potential in India for Kids genre based movies and programmes

                                                      In Recent decade, the gear of Indian Kids movies performed better but still we lacks behind on content and monetarial based problems.   Indian Kids genre has a history of over 60 years when Government has Established Children Film Society of India (1955) for producing Children based movie. But still the particular genre movies are not performing well at the box - office. The Animation and VFX have helped Kids genre over the last 20 years. If we take a look at Indian Kids movies released in 2014 Mighty Raju Rio Calling, ‘Bhootnath Returns’ and ‘Char Sahibzaade’.  The first was a disaster but somehow ‘Bhootnath Returns’, ‘Char Sahibzaade’ became a hit. The reason behind the failures of children movies is the lack of original content and less of specialization in this field.

                              People in India feels that Kids Genre based movies just related to some software VFX and magical stories but they forget one most important thing that it’s an Art too. If this art is minutely practiced then Indian Kids movies will have a potential to reach at the level of their Hollywood Contemporaries who nearly release more than 10 children based movies every year. Last year Hollywood Release Children movie ‘Big Hero 6’ won the Academy award too and ‘Lego’ which is a game based movie also did surprising well at the box office. Why not Indian Children based films make it to that level? It’s just because lack of original content, lack of willing to produce a movie.  

                                              Despite such hurdles in Indian Kids segment Industry, this sector is booming slowly steadily now.  In India, if we want to make kids genre in to a big industry; first the government has to give an active support to the industry. So that there will be good movies for our children. The latest children movie was ‘Mere Genie Uncle’ which released on 5^th June. It promises to overall fun for everyone but didn't faired well as per the expectations.

Pk creates history in neighbouring China

Bollywood’s most successful movie ‘Pk’ creates another milestone which is simply hard to believe. Yes we are talking about the recent release of ‘PK’ in China. In just 11 days after its (22^nd May) release in China, it earned a gross total of Rs 83.94 Crores. Yes you read it right; this movie just doing exceptional magic across the borders. Bollywood films try hard to reach 100 Crores mark in India but nothing seems impossible for PK which soon be the only 100 Crore Plus movies in China. 

                                          The trio of Director Raj Kumar Hirani, Producer Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Mr Perfectionist Aamir (You can call them Trimurti) always did a magic whenever they had came together. Their previous movie ‘3 Idiots’ which released in 4,600 Screens in China also have done extremely well.  You can lead various reasons for the success of this flick. It can be the Perfection of Aamir who earlier film ‘Dhoom 3’ and ‘3 Idiots’ also did well at the Chinese box office or you can credit to the brilliant story. Overall the success ratio of few of Indian films proves that China is a great potential market for Indian Movies.

                  Overall, Aamir Khan Starrer ‘Pk’ has earned a whooping Rs. 710 Crores since its release in December 19 and there is yet lot more collection to come from the Chinese front. Apart from Aamir, ‘PK’ also stars Sushant Singh Rajput and Gorgeous Anushka Sharma. PK is a trend setter for all the new releasing movies in India as they can now opt for another market in South Asia where there is a huge chance of success ratio

 and gross Potential.

Pahchaane nahi ka! PK 

Irfan Khan – Success with no Shout

Irfan Khan, the name itself reminds you of a character totally confused, frustrated, emotionally exhausted in few of his movies. He is actually the Warrior of Acting, Warrior must be an unfriendly word to relate Irfan, but this word has an in-depth emotional connection with him. Yes, “The Warrior” is a Hollywood Movie released in 2001 which have given a big break to him as a lead actor. He was so frustrated after struggling for nearly 15 years in Bollywood and television industries and he had decided just to quit from it. Then the luck favoured him with British Movie ‘The Warrior’ and there was no looking back then.

               His face was not so catchy for a desi hero looks, so he mostly gets role of either a villain or some negative character. Who can forget his Bihari style Villanious role is a soft romantic drama ‘Haasil’ and sexually desperate police inspector in the Hindi movie ‘Rog’ released in 2005. He got many roles since then, but mostly of a kind of character type. He was still in demand for the kind of his effective acting, unique voice and the look he has.

                                             He earned recognition and fame by acting in both Bollywood and Hollywood movies like Namesake, Maqbool , Slumdog Millionaire & Life of Pi . He was seen last year in a Hollywood flick ‘The Amazing spiderman’ and Hindi film ‘Piku’. You will see him again after a week in movie ‘The Jurassic World’. He is now currently working on a project on ‘Inferno’ which includes Hollywood immensely Talented Actor Tom Hanks.

Akshay’s new Avatar in “Singh is Bling”

Bollyood Action Hero ‘Akshay Kumar’ is all set to buzz up again for his forthcoming movie “Singh Is Bling”. The name only suggests that the movie is a sequal to “Singh is King” which already had good marks at the box-Office. We have seen Akshay in Punjabi Avtar before but his look in this movie poster is a little bit different from the previous one. He now looks more urban and classy and even his looks will remind you of Sunny Deol’s looks in few of his recent movies.

                                                              In this flick, Akshay will groove with another beauty Amy Jackson who is now all set to firm her base in bollywood. The shooting work has been done in foreign locale and there is no doubt that he will again do the same mischevious thing to grab her eyes like he did to Katrina in earlier movie.  Moreover, it looks as if the director will go with the same kinda story but with a different location and different characters. Still there is time for the trailer where we could easily findout the story essence of this movie. Till then you can take a look at this awesome movie poster.

                                       

   In films, Akshay is known for Fighting and stunt and this movie also promises to show you the best stunts performed by him. His earlier performances in movies like Holiday, Baby, Gabbar was an exceptional and critics even loved it. So this time also fans are ready to see what he had stored for them in “Singh is Bling”.  

Kangna – Redefining Bollywood Trends

Who had expected to believe a petite Kangna starting career from Gangster way back in 2005 to reach at the apex of the Bollywood. It’s all happening good for this glamour girl, who came in to notice as a druggist model in Fashion (2008) and wins heart of millions of movie goers and event critics. She never looks back again, 2011 was a good year for Kangna when she shocked the audience by playing a role of rural girl ‘Tanu’. ‘Tanu’ is more of a quirky girl who just behaves unusual and this is something what attracts everyone even ‘Manu’ got crazy for her. This movie proved that Kangna is a long racer in Bollywood and she can shock anyone with her acting.

                           

                                                               After Few years of Average performance by Kangna came the best career defining performance of her life ‘Queen’ (2014). Queen was not just a movie it’s everything about a Girl and her freedom of life in a country like India. She acted with such sincerity that even National Awards didn’t find a better candidate for the Best Actress Category. Vikas Bhal’s Queen was a Block Buster hit movie.  It is one the few women oriented movie that did well at the Box Office.

                                         After Queen Success, everyone was thinking is this much Kanga has left in the Pandora box…..No…the best is yet to come. Recently released movie   ‘Tanu Weds Manu Returns’ proved again that she is not just an actress; she is best in all. She is giving a tough fight to the other bollywood divas for the top leading ladies in the movies to come. Her recent movie is already collecting well at the cinema halls and mouth publicity is also everywhere for her. Praises are raining for Kangna and even Critics are enchanted after seeing her magic on screen.

                                     It seems that Khans are not the only favourite of Bollywood , Kangna now created her niche in the market. Film critics and celebrities now feel sure  that Kangna will win all the awards this year too J Kudos Kangna

         

Bollywood Blooms at Bandra streets

Roaming around the streets of bandra, you can easily find several wall painted bollywood posters smiles back to you with a vibrant color. A wall painting of the famous movie poster of ‘Anarkali ‘(1953) catches the eye of nearly every pedestrian walking at Waroda road, Bandra. This is the not an only area you can find big wall paintings of superstars,  there are eight other landmarks  where the big wall paintings painted on the streets of Bandra. You can easily find a wall painting on the road near Mount Marry Church where Bollywood Legend ‘Amitabh Bachchan’ poses one of his famous styles from the movie Deewar (1973).  For Tributing India’s First Superstar Rajesh Khanna, he painted his biggest wall painting ever at the street of Chapel Road, Bandra. As every street has its story and so one of the crowded streets in Mumbai gets a new bollywood story now, where even an outsider can relate to bollywood with these big murals painting and also feel that he is actually in bollywood city now.

         If we look back at bollywood historical era of 50’s to the late 80’s, the art of painted bollywood posters and big banners and hoardings were one of the most convenient way to promote their upcoming movies.  Since the digitization and prolific technologies film promoters now prefer new printing options and make thousand copies of same movie posters within a few minutes. So the painting art of bollywood posters which was there till the late eighties got extinct thereafter. Now with the magic hands of unique Painter Artist ‘Ranjeet Dahiya’ people can relive the moment of that era by looking at the amazing street paintings of their favourite stars.

Speaking about his passion for Bollywood Actors Mural paintings, Ranjeet Dahiya (35) uncovered many facets of his life which made him inspire to do something different and now city’s one of the rare and most unique wall painters. “I started my career as white washer after my school and I use to white wash on houses and streets. One day I was just white washing at a school and a principal just came and asked as, do you know someone who will paint a Goddess Saraswati in our school. So I told, I can paint it and I painted a 6’ 4’’ ft and it turned out very well and I got happy that I did that. So then at the age of 19, I thought by how long I will do whitewash. So I decided to be a painter and started learning paintings and even joined an advertising company for a job and so I paint ads on the wall at remote villages of Panipat. My parents won’t like my work at that time and were unhappy as I use to roam and paint at several places. Then I decided to study fine arts for being much more prolific in painting and after completing my studies in Fine Arts I moved to Mumbai. I had an Image in my mind that in Mumbai all stars were live just next to eachother and I was really fond of Bollywood, but when I came here there is nothing which I relate to as bollywood or say that yes I am in Bollywood City. So I decided why not give this city its identity for what it actually stands for. So I decided to do a wall painting and ‘Anarkali’ is my first wall painting. After that I got appreciation and so I decided to give my tribute to 100 Years of Indian Cinema and also continue my work to make more Wall Paintings across the streets of Bandra. “

                                He is so passionate about his work that he paints all of his wall paintings with its own costs which is around 40 to 50 thousand each and the costliest of his painting is of Rajesh Khanna in which he spent more than 60 thousands .It takes him an average of 10 days to make this big mural paintings of Bollywood starts at the streets. He started his bollywood Painting works on streets in 2008 and he has painted around eight wall paintings on the streets till now.  Besides painting, he also gives lectures in colleges on art and designing and earns his livelihood.

                 For future Plans, he has in mind to make a big mural paintings of legendry actor Guru Dutt, Dilip Kumar, Kishor Kumar and Saira banu on streets as a special tribute to them