HEYY BABBY

I happenned to catch this 'mega' movie on one of lazy sundays in Mumbai. The first thing which struck me was the lavishly shot title track of the film as the norm has started. The producers and distributors have started believing that the lavish shooting of the title track and its use in the promotion of the film, guaratees the film to be hit.

The film began, and it rebegan, The contents of the scene were the same for the next half hour. Three bachelors who have been screwing and living a lavish lifestyle. Yawn..... can we know what is the story please. Yeah and then one fine day a baby arrives at their doorsteps and lo the baby changes their lives, until the real mother of the baby comes and wants to take her back, but by the time they get so hooked to the baby that they can't let her go. wow!! very original. But the fact remains that I have stopped questioning the originality of the contents, as nothing can be original. But something can be original and that is the situations, the characters. ..

But guess this is not how they wanted to go about it.

A trash of a film is declared a hit.

At this rate it seems that we are not going to be heading anywhere in the department of filmmaking, especially regarding the films going international. And worse never make an original film.

This brings me to question the future of Indian films? Is the audience not ready or are we not ready to take chances of making a good film? Do we have it in us to make a good film or not?
Something which is storytelling in pure sense.

Is the lack of real story tellers because there is no one to spot them and bring them to limelight. Or because we donot have the film schools equipped enough to create/ discover great filmmakers or rather can we have film schools in India to create audiences who would be ready to watch films beyond the regular norm of filmmaking.