THE CRAPBOOK

I know am a little late in writing this post, well someone said I can’t write a review unless I  watch the movie!

I finally managed to watch both the flicks running in theatres now. Let me go with the worst one first, “Kismat Konnection” . This seemed like Kismat Disconnection to me, the plot was rather simple and can be easily guessed on what’s going to happen, including the climax.

The love story is age old bollywood style, where the girl is getting married to someone else who also happens to be a flirt and have an affair as well. I think such stories are far too common.

We know what Shahid is going to do and what Vidya is upto as well. 30 minutes in the movie and you can guess on what’s going to happen. Well it’s not a suspense thriller of any sort, but still I would consider the plot far too plain.

The execution was even worse.

The second one was Janne Tu Ya Janne Na. Wah! Finally something to entertain, although I am not too happy with the plot, I would say it’s not just another Bollywood movie. Its different, the storyline is entertaining and you give less attention to your popcorn, which itself is a good thing. The music as you guys know is great, Kabhi Kabhi Aditi  being the best one.

The story is simple with similar plot as ‘Kismat Connection’ where the girl is going to get married to a guy who also happens to be a flirt etc etc. But there were more layers to it. The execution was excellent.

We have heard about movie remakes….. now listen to this :

haha, sounds familiar?

Now this

haha again.

I have more links like this with me(got as forward), from Bhool Bullaiyya to Jab We Met, all the recent Bollywood Movie songs are inspirations (read COPIED).

Piracy would be the No 1 competition for music and movie industry. Now why do the pirates survive and how come the police or the law not bringing them to justice? The answer would be simple. The public. There is a greater demand for pirated movie CDs, Audio CDs in India and the piracy business is booming like never before.

Although the law enforcers’ crack down (1 2) many piracy rackets all across India, we know places like National market In Bangalore, Bhima Palli in Trivandrum, Chor Bazaar in Mumbai still exists. We could see them often on the roads and street corners selling latest movie CDs. We can bargain with them on the price and watch new movies for as low as 20Rs.Now what is the police doing? Well it’s deplorable that the pirates sell this in public and right under their nose, so it doesn’t take rocket science to figure out that the police are paid off to keep away. 

Back in college, while I was doing my engineering there was one student who supplied pirated CDs. So where did he get all the CDs from? Interestingly his dad was a policeman who conducts raids at shops who sells pirated CDs. So the CDS were taken as evidence and it was all over our hostel!!!!! 

Now how can we stop piracy? What can the public do? What can the industry do?Answer to the Second question is simple, stop buying pirated CDS. Buy originals. However with the price tag on Hollywood movies reaching above 300Rs for a movie the common man would think otherwise. He would rather download it from torrent sites than shell out huge bucks.The answer to the third question would be the solution. The industry should wake up!. Sell movie CDs cheap, like what Moser Baer has already started doing. You would notice the crowd in front of Moser Baer CD counter at Land Mark Bangalore. Compare it with the crowd at other CD counters. That should explain the difference.Now it’s the turn of Hollywood movies to step up and sell cheap like Moser Baer.

I guess price under Rs 100 would be affordable to many who are looking forward to watch Hollywood movies. Next would be the music industry. Who cares about buying an Audio CD is you can download it for free? Well we could buy it if you sell it cheap. The public has spoken with the Moser Baer initiative, now is the industry listening?