Hollywood high!

India makes the largest number of films in a year. More than the movies made by the rest of the world put together. We have quantity! But we lack big time in quality. I love the indian film industry and thats why I prefer to call it that. The indian film industry. Not Bollywodd which is a rip off of Hollywood and ofcourse we have the telugu/Tamil film industry -- Tollywood and if i am not wrong there even is a kollywood. Well the word bollywood may have found a place in the oxford dictionary, but it still has to find a place in the world film industry. On the brighter side, (some)hindi movies made today are really good .Thanks to intelligent film makers/actors like Amir khan that we do have sensible movies to boast of here in India.
But there is one thing which I really really wish for. I wish we had variety like that in hollywood. People there make movies out of concepts from which indian film makers are far away from. Movies like Prestige, Shutter Island, Inception or constatine (which was the original inspiration of writing this blog) have ideas which can only make a viewer go wow. I dont deny that we donot have good filmmakers or good actors for that matter, but we do have a big time dearth of ideas.
Here, I would also have to take some onus on me as a movie goer. Somehow, audiences have never been able to accept "anything different" from the hindi movies. We still flock theatres for a Karan Johar/Yash Chopra movie. The entire hindi film industry is thriving on a single emotion. No prizes for guessing that --- Love! I wish story tellers dare to think a little out of the box and the film makers dare to make them.
India started by making brilliant films with amzing talents like Satyajit Ray, Raj Kapoor and Hrishikesh Mukherjee. I can still sit and watch Anari, Anand or chupke chupke. But we still stood our ground on love, love songs, realtionships, family, etc etc. Also there have been sheer rip offs of hollywood movies. Rip offs so bad, they make you flinch. For example there was a movie called "The Dragonfly" They made a hindi movie out of it called "saaya". They not only took the whole story, they also took the dialouges! How unimaginative can you be in a profession that requires you to be creative and imaginitive! Then there was Shukriya which was badly taken from Joe Black or even a hindi movie starring Randeep Hooda and Shahana Goswami which was an awful take away from the beautiful "If Only". Even when they buy the rights and make "We are family" out of Step Mom you still want to hide away and wish you had not wasted your 300 bucks on coming to watch a desperate attempt to be at par.
I still have my hopes high on the indiam Film Industry. Because for every stupid movie, they still give me a Rang De Basanti and a fashion. But we still have a long way to go to make an Inception or Invictus!