Oscar Roundtable: Boyle on Bollywood

Danny Boyle, director of "Slumdog Millionaire," talks to his fellow directors about the difference between working in Bollywood and Hollywood.

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[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.

[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.

[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

[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

[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.

[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

[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.

[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.

[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.