Saturday, February 19, 2011

INDIAN MOVIES AT WORLD STAGE

By Indian films I donot only mean bollywood but all other regional languages and  Indian performing in the world arena. In the year 1982 Richard Attenbarough's epic movie 'Gandhi' tasted the Oscar for an Indian. After a gap of about a decade Satyajit Ray own the Lifetime Oscar. However it was till late 200s that Indian films achieved a cult at the Oscars. Danny Boyel's epic movie 'Slumdog Millionaire' had an almost all Indian cast and it won 8 Oscars.
Some criticies Slumdog Millionaire by stating that like i 1990's there was a trend of giving beauty pagents title to Indians to create market for Wesstern Consumerism the Oscars too are a form of marketing strategy so that Hollywood can capture the Indian market.
A.R.Rehman and Gulzar own Oscars as well as Grammy awards. Even this year too Rehman may win the Oscars,all the best to him.
Among other films the two Amir Khan starrer films,'Lagaan' in 2001 and ' Rang De Basanti' in 2006 had ample chances of winning Oscars in the best regional film category but unfortunately they failed.
To conclude it may be said that the Indian film industry is slowly making way to abroad. Perhaps this can be called globalisation of cinema.

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