Oscar Roundtable: Boyle on Bollywood

[majesticmaniac]

Have you ever heard of the following three movies - Black Friday, Satya and Deewar....These three indian movies were a big influence on Slumdog....According to danny himself....

[blitzkrieg969]

Being an indian i can say this, Bollywood makes some of the worst films in the world. it is killing good films made in other indian languages, because majority speaks hindi in india and films in other languages fail to get recognisation

[dancebaby808]

Danny Boyle comes across as a really humble and nice guy

[trentkill]

Slumdog Millionaire is a brilliant film. Boyle, along with all the directors at this roundtable are responsible for masterpieces at one time or another.. Trainspotting and 28 Days are masterful and Boyle so belongs alongside the likes of Aronofsky and Eastwood.

[gustav234]

Also Slumdog Millionaire is an average attempt at best and certainly not worthy of an oscar.

I would appreciate if this loser doesnt talk anymore about India with his ignorant narrow minded world view.

Nobody invited him here and nobody asked him to make his crap movie.

[malows1234]

@gustav234 @gustav234 ok first off, hollywood films are shit and bollywood movies are worse shit. But he is talking about hollywood collectively, most particularly the indie films. Dont support india until they have made a Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Godfather, Goodfellas, There will be Blood. So you know nothing about films made in hollywood. and u must be a dam shallow person if the only holly wood movies u have seen are about superheroes, and cgi. CGI and superhero mmovies are brainless tho

[gustav234]

Boyle sounds like a redneck who has no idea what Bollywood movies are.

Granted they are not great but they dont lack coherence as he put it.

I would say most Bollywood movies focus more on character and story than most Hollywood movies as I watch both.

The latter is mostly about superheroes, CGI, action, sequels, prequels etc.

[deepban]

You are talking about only the top of the cream. Most films in Bollywood are crap which are made for the Masses. If you are talking about Indian Cinema...that's totally a different scenario which you are referring to above I think. Bollywood = Hindi language films@ lame remakes of hollywood films...PERIOD

[malows1234]

@gustav234 ok first off, hollywood films are shit and bollywood movies are worse shit. But he is talking about hollywood collectively, most particularly the indie films. Dont support india until they have made a Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Godfather, Goodfellas, There will be Blood. So you know nothing about films made in hollywood. and u must be a dam shallow person if the only holly wood movies u have seen are about superheroes, and cgi. CGI and superhero mmovies are brainless tho i agree.

[newyorkgirl123000]

boyle is such a patronising fool ,why didnt he mention the fact that the film slumdog millionaire was inspired by 4 bollywood films in particular,company,black friday ,satya and deewar he basically ripped off several indian films as well as being inspired by aamir khans taare zameen par,what bout great intelligent indian films like black or rang de basanti very intelligent,thought out films or chandhi bar extremely realistic ,why didnt they get the acclaim ,i know cause of racism.

[blavia77]

black and rang de basanti were horrible films...you obviously know nothing about film, it's his directing style which he is praised for. I didn't see any deewar or taare zameen par inspiration in slumdog. And as if anyone is going to ever rip off amir khan- the same guy who stole and butchered chris nolan's memento.

[dreamissbehaved]

lot of talent at that table!

they are not arrogant.

[jemimakahn]

The really good Indian films (A Wednesday, Khosla ka Ghosla) struggle to get a theatrical release in India. Makers of such films mortgage or sell their homes to get their films made. 85% of Bollywood films with the big glitzy stars have no plot - just a lot of hoopla, bunged-in songs, coarse humor and contrived, derivative action seqences.

[jemimakahn]

Boyle's not being patronising or arrogant, he's seena lot of indian films and knows that the coherent, well-written ones are few and far between. People keep harking to the well-written, well-directed Indian films as if that's the real trend in Bollywood when it's not.

[AerialDeathFireStyle]

danny boyle is wonderful

so is clint eastwood by the way

both people i greatly admire

haha yeh i totally get what hes saying foreigners from the west need to get used to vibe of the different countries they go to :P

[skk163]

probably was meant but this does come across a little arrogant. There are some bollywood directors who are very interested in the coherence of movies. There are also some directors who will engage with the grittiness of indian life. Nevetherless a great movie by Danny Boyle, thanks a million

[rij01]

oh these hollywood 'hot-shots' can drop dead..well some are the age...haha...that patronising tone is a sign of such ignorance and self-absorption (typically american), considering the crap they feed the world...literally and cinematically!

[dreamissbehaved]

"typically american"?

boyle is the one who's doing most of the talking here...and last time i checked he's british.

[Lovefool223]

i think u reading a little too much into it.. i think he has a general love of bollywood, and being honest come sometimes come out the wring way

[webrat54]

oh, the arrogance of hollywood...tsk, tsk