Topic started by Sibu Siddique (@ unknown-24-11.pilot.net) on Sun May 21 07:20:26 .
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Can I have some opinions on what people out there
think of the major difference in Malayalam cinema
and the rest of Indian cinema and what makes us
stand apart from others.

Responses:

• From: Misguided Soul (@ pppa58-resalephoenix4-2r7080.saturn.bbn.com) on: Mon Jun 5 10:50:16 EDT 2000
  
  WHO CARES?
  
  
• From: a (@ proxy2.fm.intel.com) on: Mon Jun 5 18:30:29 EDT 2000
  
  simply put
  
  Malayalam Movies - some of them are really good.
  Tamizh Movies - a couple of them are good.
  Bollywood - every movie made in the last 15 years sucked.
  The rest - I have no idea
  
  
• From: josen (@ dialup-209.245.74.164.losangeles1.level3.net) on: Tue Jun 6 14:48:10 EDT 2000
  
  Some of the malayalam movies are realistic and
  did well.Some of the great directors were from
  kerala. Fortunately or unfortunately some of them
  are still alive.
  malayalam is a field of experiments and have good artists and good directors.But they have to behind the commercial film to stay in the industry.
  But In tamil Only a few directors and
  actors are come to the list first one is Kamal ,he can do anything but he has also a eye on money .
  IN bollywood everybody want to make money and fame they don't need any awards.
  Only commercial film can bring the people to the theatre .Art film can enjoy only a few of
  the population .
  one gift is the Tlaented artists(a lot)
  in every field.
  
  
• From: anu (@ 164.164.86.66) on: Thu Jun 8 11:27:54 EDT 2000
  
  I think art film in its real sense comes only in Malayalam and of course Bengali.(maybe Assamese too). Then there's the family stories- here mal films are more realistic - though they too have song/fight sequences. Usually the dialogues and small things (such as the settings etc) are more realistic in Mal films. As we consider more & more commercial films, I think the dividing line becomes thinner and thinner. Would like to know of any other ideas from u...
  
  
• From: prakash (@ 202.56.229.227) on: Mon Jun 12 01:51:25 EDT 2000
  
  I think the key is that the charachters can be themselves. Heroes and heroines can be fat, they don't have to sing songs, the humour is typical to large parts of Kerala,
  
  Unlike Hindi films which have to cater to a huge diaspora of cultures, Malayalam caters to a culture which is fairly unified and not so strongly divided on communal lines..so a hero can easily be a christian..which is not easy in Hindi cinema
  
  Can someone tell me where I can find a list of remakes of Malayalam/Tamil films?
  
  
• From: anu (@ ) on: Sun Aug 27 10:26:13
  
  Hindi films are more concentrated on beauty of the actor/actresses than on acting talent or story line. Since this has been going on for many decades it is no wonder that that is what most audience expect from them too.
  
  
• From: Rajesh R (@ 164.164.31.3) on: Fri Sep 1 06:08:55 EDT 2000
  
  Some of the actors in hindi have become from an age where they used to wear shirt with an over coat to an age where they wear only underwear. And I fear what would be the situation in the future! And see that people have become to a "WHO CARES" condition...
  
  But in Malayalam I can definitely say it is not the so called "BODY" that matter but is the "ARTIST in him"!!!
  
  
• From: anu (@ 164.164.86.66) on: Sat Sep 2 07:20:55 EDT 2000
  
  During the early period of malayalam cinema there was a wide-ranging relationship between mal films and mal literature. A lot of talented and famous writers used to write the film screen plays, hence their skill in portraying human relationships was admirably reflected in the movies too. As another way of interaction attempts were made to get a lot of popular classical novels(like the Chemmeen of Thakazhi) on the visual medium. Such experiments gave malayalam movies a unique, malayali nature, albeit of world class.
  
  But lateron, we see very few literary geniuses in malayalam, very few literary masterpieces of high class. Obviously this has led to an adverse effect in malayalam cinema too. Nowadays we have to rely on occasional scripts like that of MT/Hariharan , to see at least a semblance of the culture mal movies once had. I pointed out Hariharan because his movies are not the 'art' hardcore type, he has the knack of bringing in commercial aspects without losing an iota of the message he wants to reach out to the viewer.
  Even the success of one such movie, is bound to give rise to a spate of movies experimenting with all sorts of ideas. Which is what we want.
  
  
• From: Rajesh R (@ 164.164.31.3) on: Sun Sep 3 23:03:25 EDT 2000
  
  And another sad thing is that we are losing them one by one Aravindan, Padmarajan, Bharathan ...!!
  
  
• From: asafasfsfsfsf (@ xxx.omantel.net.om) on: Thu Sep 7 16:06:28 EDT 2000
  
  Its like comparing EK nayanar and Vajpayee..
  
  One wags its tail inside kerala..the other is known all over the world..
  
  
• From: A movie lover (@ host5.pune.tcs.co.in) on: Wed Jun 20 09:53:12
  
  malayalam films are more realistic and have good sense of art, humour. but now things are changing with the arrival of some useless people like kunchako boban, krishna and all. still some hope is there because people like mt, shaji karun, srinivasan are alive. hindi and tamil are mainly dependent on glamour, sex and violence. some people prefer hindi or tamil movie to watching a Blue film.
  
  
• From: mxb-dubai (@ nc4.emirates.net.ae) on: Fri Oct 26 13:43:26
  
  i am just watching for good reponses..
  never find good one..
  wait and see
  
  
  
• From: Unni (@ dsl-64-192-247-33.telocity.com) on: Tue Oct 30 07:48:50
  
  the feel of REAL LIFE in a film is seen in some Malayalam films which are so natural that you feel that it is happening at your house in kerala, right in front of you. I have seen one or two tamil films like that (like mudal mariyadai).I never saw a hindi film like that and i don't think that sort of a film will ever come in Hindi. As some mentioned above, Bengali and Assamese also have natural films.
  
  
• From: Vince (@ a010-0633.chcg.splitrock.net) on: Tue Oct 30 10:01:12
  
  Unni how about SATHYA from Ram Gopal Varma. No big stars or anything, but that movie was amazing.
  
  
• From: Roopa (@ netcache.qualitynet.net) on: Tue Oct 30 15:55:28
  
  hi guys and gals,
  quite interesting,intuitive and innovative views on this topic at hand.just goes to show how mature malayalis are as is evident even in the most superficial of malayali movies(better than a hindi movie any day or let's say general hindi movies,though i'll never stop watching them)In a day and age when everything is matter of fact,malayalam movies show realistically and genuinely the emotions of a normal person and in turn brings out a humane side to the viewers,helping in an indirect way to foster felings of friendship,empathy and above all,love making(hopefully)better people out of us!sorry for being so lovey-dovey(pretty sleepy,you know)
  take care and Vince,Ramu is a south indian,which explains the reason behind the success of Satya.(kaun was a good movie too)-It takes that much harder for a south indian artist or director to score in Bollywood,so only the really talented ones spring out of the usual mold.(lady luck and influence plays a role too)
  bye and take care
  Rooparaj
  
  
• From: Narayanan (@ umd84-75.d.umn.edu) on: Tue Oct 30 17:21:34
  
  Like most of you said that most directors are trying to earn money in their movies. Look a Jayaraj who didn't think that Deshadanam was going to be a hit but it was a big hit. You don't see the type of movies like Deshadanam, Paithrukum (another Jayaraj movie), Shantham. All these movies seem real not like alot of the new tamil and hindi movies.
  
  
• From: Sibu Siddique (@ ) on: Wed Sep 25 02:57:23
  
  The hard fact as of today is that Malayalam cinema is also deteriorating. Looking at the type of films made today like Thandavam, Dubai, Ravana Prabhu etc. one can say that our penchant to make good cinema is drawing to a close. However the comforting factor here is that the audience is still sensible and not ready to accept anything that lacks quality. And I think it is this line drawn bye the Kerala audience that pushes the industry to make good cinema. Hoping for the best.
  
  
• From: RN (@ p2026-ipbffx01osakakita.osaka.ocn.ne.jp) on: Wed Sep 25 04:03:19
  
  what i feel is this..
  
  when an an artists get accepted by the people
  there starts so many entertainment movies..
  When the actor get matured he seeks good scripts and good movies starts coming..
  when the actor/star is at his end of days he plays flop roles to keep his stardom...
  This they will do in a bulk of movies ..then people wait for a change..so
  new people will get acceptance..shakkeela also..
  now the next star comes
  
  Nazeer, madhu
  Jayan, sukumaran, soman
  Mamootty, Mohanlal..
  There was a good competition for each star and it was one to one...so their competetion has given
  so many good movies and bad movies. Other fact is that nobody else get good roles because of them
  
  
  But in Tamil when there was MGR, it was only MGR
  When there is Rajini there is only Rajni.
  But below them there were so many people who got better roles as MGR and Rajni were at too high.
  
  In hindi there were so many people. Only exceptions were Rajkapoor and AB. All others looks same.
  Anybody can be replaced by other in performance.
  So the competition was not between two people and hence it has not gone beyond the level of
  entertainment movie.
  
  
  So when malayalam starts making good movies, there may be so many good movies.
  But when we make bad movie, we will go to the level of shakkeela.
  Automatically changes are coming. We don't allow any trend to continue.
  Like in politics also, today it is congress, tomorrow it is CPM.
  
  
  
• From: rekhapnair (@ 203.199.213.5) on: Thu Oct 3 09:11:32
  
  
  If JAYACHANDRAN is singing in malayalam the quality of songs and standard of film improves.
  You can see the graph comes low ie declines the quality of malayalam songs since jayachandran was not given chances to sing.They allowd yeshudas to destroy songs whichever he got.
  
  
• From: sunil (@ ) on: Mon Sep 29 05:37:36
  
  Jayan was the alltime action superhero of alltimes that anybody knows. See his films u all!!!
  www.idimuzhakkam.net
  
  
• From: Narayanan (@ chum470.d.umn.edu) on: Mon Sep 29 10:38:12 EDT 2003
  
  From: rekhapnair (@ 203.199.213.5) on: Thu Oct 3 09:11:32 are back wow i thought after all those posts earlier this year and last year i thought all of you gave up.
  
  
• From: Anchu (@ ) on: Mon Nov 17 09:09:03
  
  Until half a decade back, Malayalam movies used to have many positive aspects that distinguished them from other vernacular movies. But, of late, 75 per cent of the movies made, are pure scrap that there are hardly any distinctions left!! To put it in a few words, the new ‘Dilip wave’ and ‘the Shaji Kailas trend’ have given mallu movies a complete makeover- one of bad to worse.
  Mohan Lal was one superb actor, and taking into account his present acting skills, he should be shot dead. Instead of growing up as an actor, he has grown ‘DOWN’!! Lal and Mammootty both should be stripped off their Bharat Awards for acting in a super ridiculous dud called ‘Harikrishnans’.Once they find themselves without any Bharats or Padmashrees, they will be back on earth, where they truly belong and will at the least try their best to bag another Bharat. That might give us a chance to watch another good movie.
  And if you really wanna know the differences, he truth is that there aren’t any. The difference lies between the cine goers of Kerala and other states. Mallus will bear absurdity … but not for long, else all Lal films would have been hit. Mallus are too practical to consider stupid actors Gods, though there no dearth for Fans associations. (100 percent literacy is an easy thing to claim, but 100 per cent intelligence is not!)
  But, it’s the Mallu producers who are real shrewds-in the past, they kept their focus on housewives and today it’s on kids. All Dilip pics are kidstuff and they go onto be hits.
  
  

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