there is a common belief that with age and eXperience one's filmmaking keeps improving... as in the more one has lived and has more credibility for one's belief, or the more one has read, or just the fact that one has spent more time with the camera, the filmmaking improves... people like paradjanov prove the point... even, for eXample, bresson's idea of filmmaking grew more & more concrete and he became more a master of his own created language through the years & that can be seen if one goes through the films he has made through the years.... this actually is evident in most filmmakers i believe...

but it seems like Nagesh Kukunoor and Sanjay Leela Bhansali have decided to prove a point. it's hard to believe that the guy who has made films like hyderabad blues, rockford & teen deewarein can make a film like Bombay to Bangkok... or for that matter that a guy who made khamoshi can make something like Saawariyan..

to me it seems money to be the culprit... Hyderabad Blues was made in around 20 lakh rupees, try to beat that... the sequel of the film made about 6 years down the lane is no match to the original one... & then he went on to make iqbal, dor & now bombay to bangkok... what happened???? though i was still ok with iqbal (at least it was the one off sports film we had that time) & i found dor also ok... but hey how about the mallu film which has a very very similar story???? (btw the mallu film ends much better & is generally speaking a much much better film)

when i was first seeing 3 deewarein, i was really apprehensive... it was "inspired" by shawshank redemption after all.... but that is one film i NOW keep as an eXample of what an inspiration should be... it was just that - an inspiration... but what about dor??? what was that????

even that is ok... but then how can one eXplain Bombay to Bangkok????? i mean, its ridiculous..... & they say he is coming up with another one this year...

what happened to Sanjay Leela Bhansali for that matter????? how can a person capable of making khamoshi make a film like Saawariyan (with even the god damned pot holes being calculated and put there) ?????

is it that, if you are a "great director" you gotta spend a particular amount of money??? what is this money thing doing to the art form????

few years back, when the film making venture in india got "industry" setup a lot of whoola was created for the advantages it has... i really doNT know about the advantages but know this much that cinema aint the typical "industry"... it is an art form, & should be treated in the same sense... one needs to earn money & be rich & all but it is more than that...

it is really sad seeing "good" filmmakers do what they are doing NOW
& it's heart breaking...
& there is this feeling of having been cheated...