Don 2 is ready for a bigger game of cat-and-mouse, and Shah Rukh Khan looks every inch the Don, all set for European domination and a big Christmas treat for his fans. The Reliance Entertainment’s sheer confidence in its product bucks the “day and date” worldwide release trend in by opening the action-packed super slick film Don 2 across the UK on Wednesday December 21, two days before India – its biggest market. Such is the confidence that not only will it release before anywhere else, it will also be presented in glorious 3D.
Sirens are ringing and the buzz continues to build across international territories in anticipation of the biggest sequel in Indian cinema and what is set to become a milestone heist at box office globally. The prequel was a huge success in 2006 and this sequel is expected to surpass all his previous UK releases. Prakash Bakrania, Reliance Entertainment’s UK Head states,...
Sirens are ringing and the buzz continues to build across international territories in anticipation of the biggest sequel in Indian cinema and what is set to become a milestone heist at box office globally. The prequel was a huge success in 2006 and this sequel is expected to surpass all his previous UK releases. Prakash Bakrania, Reliance Entertainment’s UK Head states,...
- 12/8/2011
- by Stacey Yount
- Bollyspice
Bollywood audiences are turning away from aspirational films and towards once-taboo topics: poverty, corruption, the caste system. Nirpal Dhaliwal on how the mood darkened
Over the last 20 years, India's rapid economic growth and the expansion of its middle class has had the effect of turning commercial Hindi cinema into a dream factory, full of glossy urban characters, speaking Hinglish, draping themselves in designer labels and hanging out at the mall. Romances and dramas involving wealthy families living in mansions and driving BMWs has been the staple for a generation of aspirational filmgoers who have enjoyed a level of affluence unprecedented in their country's history. It was a phenomenon assisted by Indians overseas, who wanted films that sentimentalised their homeland and elided any of its harsh realities; the box-office receipts were too lucrative to ignore. But now, economic development has brought about a social and cinematic tipping point, with a middle class that is large,...
Over the last 20 years, India's rapid economic growth and the expansion of its middle class has had the effect of turning commercial Hindi cinema into a dream factory, full of glossy urban characters, speaking Hinglish, draping themselves in designer labels and hanging out at the mall. Romances and dramas involving wealthy families living in mansions and driving BMWs has been the staple for a generation of aspirational filmgoers who have enjoyed a level of affluence unprecedented in their country's history. It was a phenomenon assisted by Indians overseas, who wanted films that sentimentalised their homeland and elided any of its harsh realities; the box-office receipts were too lucrative to ignore. But now, economic development has brought about a social and cinematic tipping point, with a middle class that is large,...
- 8/25/2011
- by Nirpal Dhaliwal
- The Guardian - Film News
India's latest blockbuster, 3 Idiots, has broken box-office records around the world – but it won't even make a dent in the British mainstream. Former Bollywood fan Nirpal Dhaliwal has a fair idea why
Bollywood films have always felt like a test of my identity, one I've consistently failed. Despite my family ties, love of India and fascination with it, my inability to enjoy Bollywood has highlighted just how unIndian I am. My taste in films, like most else about me, has been shaped by the UK. I am a "Britisher", as a friend in Delhi likes to say and, like the bulk of other Britishers, I enjoy Bollywood – with its music routines involving beautiful people, light-hearted songs and cleverly choreographed dancing – only in small doses. The typical three-hour Bollywood experience, with its cliched plots, dialogue, hammy acting and confusion of unrelated narratives baffles me.
I haven't liked it since I was a child,...
Bollywood films have always felt like a test of my identity, one I've consistently failed. Despite my family ties, love of India and fascination with it, my inability to enjoy Bollywood has highlighted just how unIndian I am. My taste in films, like most else about me, has been shaped by the UK. I am a "Britisher", as a friend in Delhi likes to say and, like the bulk of other Britishers, I enjoy Bollywood – with its music routines involving beautiful people, light-hearted songs and cleverly choreographed dancing – only in small doses. The typical three-hour Bollywood experience, with its cliched plots, dialogue, hammy acting and confusion of unrelated narratives baffles me.
I haven't liked it since I was a child,...
- 1/7/2010
- by Nirpal Dhaliwal
- The Guardian - Film News
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