Indian Movies - The X Factor

By: titali

Even though it’s a fact that Indian movies find a lot of takers in the modern world, there are still aspects that need a lot of improvement if they have to strike a cord with the global audience. Some films with universal character are being made these days and actually doing very well. Still there is some thing that actually goes a long way in how an Indian movie is actually made. Even though it is very biased in favor of actors and it’s a virtual world where we can come across a mortal factious hero dodging the fire of AK-47 and the likes. Nonetheless there are some things that actually still make the industry and its movies what they are.

If one has to come across an Indian movie by chance then in most cases one should leave the grey matter of it at home in order to enjoy it fully. If logic and sanity is used to explain as to how the protagonist is able to thwart all dangers and recuperate under insurmountable odds to come out as a victor is something that is a mystery to the makers as well. It would hence hold in good stead that no neuron is twitched while actually going for an Indian movie.

There are many good effects of these actually. One of the main effects being that one gets to see a colorful movie with a lot of melodrama and stuff like that. Another aspect is that a new onlooker can actually find the themes of the scripts quite hilarious to state the least. Yet if one looks on as to why movies are made in such a manner. I guess it has to be with the way the audience is eventually. The gist of all this is that logic and Indian movies don’t go together in most cases.

Music is another X factor in Indian movies.  Total effect surrounding the movie is due to such a heavy load is totally mind gobbling. No other film industry across the globe uses music in such a prolific manner in the movie itself. This actually tends to give Indian Movies a distinctive feel altogether. The trend is quite catchy with the audience at large and it’s quite unlikely that Indian flicks may mitigate its presence any time soon.

The range of topics and their eventual impact on the audience is again one of the most unique of features that the Indian Film industry has. It’s said that cinema is actually a mirror of any society and that holds true in letter and spirit to the Indian Film Industry. With such a versatile domain of society and people of different casts and creed, the stories and lives of people depicted in the movies are just a reflection of the same. Many regional films are released that go un noticed to the modern audience but strike a chord with the viewer that happens to chance through them.

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Posted: 04 Nov 2008 04:44 AM CST

CHENNAI, India Past a neighborhood teeming with wig shops, tailors, storefront astrologers and beauty salons and through an iron gate sprawls one of the largest and perhaps wackiest film studios in India.
Just before noon, a very large, fierce-looking creature strolls by. His face is bright blue. He is bare-chested. His hair is fluffy and molded into what can only be described as unruly man pigtails. He's the main hero of an upcoming religious film. He plays Krishna, a Hindu deity known as Blue Boy and portrayed variously as a prankster, a wonderful lover and a divine hero.
Dozens of women draped in red saris rush forward. They giggle and then join a huge crowd that includes makeup and hair artists, stagehands, tea sellers, stuntmen with packs of cigarettes — more on that later — and women selling strings of fresh jasmine to weave into the hair of actresses.
This is one of India's busiest movie sets. But it's not in glittery Bollywood, based in Mumbai. This is Kollywood, the lesser known Tamil-language industry named for the Kodambakkam neighborhood of Chennai.
"We like a lot of people involved in our movies — hundreds, thousands even," says Prabakaran, 42, an art director who goes by one name, as hundreds of workers quickly erected a set 28 feet tall, where the film's heroes will fight it out on ladders in a Tamil style of martial arts.
About 12:30 p.m., lots of stray pieces of iron and wood come crashing down. A porter suffers a small leg wound, but everyone else is okay. Most of the workers say they love their jobs because sometimes they get to glimpse an actor.
Kollywood stars are treated like gods, featured on larger-than-life cardboard cutouts in nearly every neighborhood and village. The male stars have deadly hairdos — think dark-skinned guy with a sun-yellow or perhaps blue-bleached mullet.
The films have two basic plot lines: fighting or flirting. It's not uncommon for one hero to take on an entire motorcycle gang and emerge without any injuries. They love freeze frames. And zooms.
"And slow-mo," Prabakaran says. "These days, we are improving our technical side. We are learning from world cinema since we see it now on satellite TV. To be very frank, we needed some updating."
The male heroes are often beer-bellied, double-chinned everymen, like Kollywood's superstar Rajinikanth, the main man in last year's blockbuster "Sivaji." It was shot here at AVM Studios, amid the sets of fake bus stops and cardboard-and-brick Mughal palaces, and it turned out to be the most expensive film in Indian history.
Rajinikanth, once a bus conductor in Bangalore, became the highest-paid actor in India. (He's also huge in Japan and Germany.) Before a film, fans pour milk over cutouts of Rajinikanth, in a Hindu rite of worship usually reserved for a deity.
"Maybe he will come today. We are never sure," says Saravanan, 40, a director who also goes by one name, wearing a Che Guevara medallion around his neck. "We are not very systematic here. People come. We film. This is not the army. We can't really categorize what we do."
His movie will be a revenge story, sort of like "The Godfather" but a musical with extended "Matrix"-like fight scenes.
At 1 p.m., dancers are rehearsing their lightning-speed hip-shaking, shoulder-shrugging moves, and the cigarette stuntmen are practicing swallowing smokes or putting 10 to their lips at once.
Kollywood, which released more than 107 movies last year, is booming. Some film critics say the reason is that Bollywood is losing fans as its plots become too Westernized and focused on characters with glamorous lives that most people in small-town India can't relate to.
"Our stars are still chubby, they are still the people you meet in your life," says Uma, an actress, fastening a long fake braid to her cropped hair to create a style commonly worn in small towns.
At nearly 2 p.m., about 100 people crowd onto a set that the actor playing Krishna has just entered, his face freshly coated blue. A director climbs aboard his crane camera, yells, "Silence!" and begins to film. Many women rush the stage to dance.
Madari Nice, a white-haired actress who will play a hysterical mother in the film, smiles as hundreds of extras wait to be chosen for a scene. Many of them have just shown up, on the chance that an actor will get sick or a dancer will hurt an ankle.
"I have been in 1,000 Tamil films," Nice says, not uncommon in an industry in which dozens of movies are pumped out every few months. "Every time, it's a wonderful adventure."