year just ended, as it was for the world of Bollywood? Which films released this year deserved to be seen and what others have been a disappointment? As usual, I present my brief analysis of major films released in Bollywood in 2010 .
This first part of the show about movies released between January and April 2010, and we start with the films released in January 2010 .
Rann (War) : The film director Ram Gopal Varma (Ramu) on the world of television journalism in India. Today in India there are over 500 private television channels, of which more than 100 broadcast news 24 hours only 24, in various Indian languages \u200b\u200band dialects. Ramu's film speaks of the power exercised by these TV and interests that are behind.
The idea for this film probably started in November 2008 when a group of terrorists come from Pakistan had taken hostage in the city of Mumbai (Bombay) for a few days.
After the capture / killing of terrorists, Prime Minister of the state of Maharashtra, Mr. Vilasrao Deshmukh had gone to visit the Taj Mahal, one of the theaters in the terrorist attack and soon had a scandal. Some TV movie was the sight of Prime Minister Deshmukh state, accompanied by his son (actor Riteish Deshmukh) and director Ramu, and had immediately launched accusations that the director had gone to visit the hotel to see the damage caused by terrorists because he wanted make a movie that was not interested in the tragedy of people killed by terrorists, but it was a jackal who wanted to gain from the misfortune of others.
The news was picked up by other TV channels and soon had inflamed the souls wounded by a terrorist attack and in the end, Mr. Deshmukh had to resign from the role of the Prime Minister of the State. Ramu had tried to make clear that his presence in that visit was a coincidence without any premeditation, but no one had listened. The film
Rann, but does not mention the terrorist attack on private television broadcasting news 24 hours on 24, and that sometimes "manufacture" news or presenting them in a sensational way to gain audience. This is a serious movie with two good interpretations of Amitabh Bacchan and Ritesh Deshmukh . This movie has the usual ingredients of Bollywood, that is, dances, music and romance, but it's a fascinating film, although it has not found commercial success in India.
Ishqiya (Flirty) : The first film by Abhishekh Chaubey, assistant and collaborator of director Vishal Bhardwaj , was the first commercial and critical success of 2010. The film tells an unusual love triangle, seasoned with constant surprises. It 's the story of two criminals, Khalujaan (Naseeruddin Shah ) and Muggles (Arshad Warsi ) and a cheerful vedova, Krishna ( Vidya Balan ).
Ambientato in un piccolo villaggio del nord dell'India, il film usa il linguaggio rustico per parlare dell'amore di un vecchio furbo per una giovane e festosa donna, in apparenza modesta e timida, capace di cambiare personaggio per avere quello che vuole.
Tutti i tre protagonisti principali del film sono bravi, ma il film merita di essere visto sopratutto per Vidya Balan , nel ruolo della donna che sa quello che vuole dal mondo dominato dagli uomini. Comunque, questo film non è il solito melodramma alla Bollywood. Il film è stato presentato al festival del cinema River to River nel dicembre 2010 in Florence.
to Sangam Road (the road to the river) : It 's a serious film which tells the story of an urn with the ashes of Mahatma Gandhi in the background of the Muslim community in a town in northern India. The film takes place in Allahabad, the holy city where they meet the three rivers, the Ganges, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati. The meeting point of the rivers is known as the Sangam (literally, "meeting"), and is the privileged place for the immersion of the ashes of the dead Hindu.
The film by Amit Rai is based on a true story. Mahatma Gandhi had expressed the wish that his death, his ashes were divided into small pieces and scattered in various rivers of India. It seems that one of these urns with ashes had remained in a vault for many years and was brought to Allahabad for immersion in the waters of the Sangam many years later.
The film is about the explosion of a bomb in the city of Allahabad and the suspicions of the police is the work of Islamic terrorists. So part of the offensive against the Muslim neighborhoods and several young men are caught by the police to perform searches. Protests in the Muslim community, a young life lost and the Muslim community says the strike of all the shops run by Muslims for police executives non saranno puniti.
Nel frattempo, il meccanico musulmano, Hashmat Ullah ( Paresh Rawal ) ha avuto incarico di mettere a posto il motore del vecchio camioncino che avevano usato per trasportare le ceneri di Gandhi e che vogliono usare anche il trasporto dell'ultima urna. Hashmat decide di sfidare lo sciopero e di aggiustare il motore, e così vengono a galla, le contraddizioni della comunità musulmana in India.
Pakistan era stato creato nel 1947 come il " paese dei musulmani ", ma molti musulmani erano rimasti in India, perché i leader del congresso come Gandhi e Nehru avevano promesso a loro India come un paese aperto a tutte le religioni, senza discriminazioni. Nel film, la comunità Muslims accuse the Indian state of discrimination that have deteriorated in recent years, after the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, and reaffirms that discrimination fuel the fundamentalism.
On the one hand, the film explains the difficulties of moderate Muslims in India. Second, the film poses many questions about the meaning of being Muslim in India, when you see people living in India but they give more importance to Pakistan's leaders and ideas and see religion as more important than membership of a nation.
The grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, Tushar Gandhi , has a small part in the film. This is also a serious film, not suitable for lovers of traditional Bollywood.
Other notable films in January 2010 with the biggest stars in Bollywood were Pyaar Impossible (Impossible Love) with Uday Chopra and Priyanka Chopra , Veer (Brave) with Salman Khan and Chance Pe Dance (Dancing for the event) with Shahid Kapoor and Genelia D'Souza . All three films have been rejected both by critics and audiences.
The most important films of February 2010 was My Name Is Khan (My Name Is Khan) by director Karan Johar , with a moderate critical and commercial success. The film tells the story of a Muslim man, Rizwan Khan (Shahrukh Khan ) affected by Asperger syndrome (a form of autism), a native of India and resident in America. Rizwan falls in love with Mandira ( Kajol), a Hindu widow with a son, and wants to marry her. Rizwan's brother (Jimmy Shergill ), is not happy that his brother wants to marry a Hindu, but Rizwan do not listen.
After September 11, 2001, change the perception of Muslims in America. Rizwan and Mandira's son becomes the target of other boys in school because he bears a Muslim name, and dies in an accident. Rizwan on a journey to look for the American president to tell him that he is a Muslim but not a terrorist.
I saw the film in India, and found it in the second half ending with the hero visiting the families of soldiers killed in Afghanistan blacks and helps families affected by Hurricane Katrina. Instead, I quite liked the first part of the film.
The film was dubbed into other languages \u200b\u200band has been shortened to its release in America and Europe. It 'was the most popular film of the year in the Middle East and Pakistan.
The film was released in Italy at the end of November 2010, but perhaps not very successful, even if the opinions of the critics were not entirely negative. For example, Giancarlo Zuppolo has written in his review, "Karan Johar can develop various topics of diversity without ever taking the tone and preachers going to touch all the strings of a public simple but not stupid. The mental handicap, the separation within the religious universe of Asian subcontinent, the irrational to the Muslim fighters unleashed after the attack on the Twin Towers come as strong themes in a film that does not mind the tearful scene as well as in the best traditions, the sequence with a song and dance. In a oversized life as a film but never boring flowing. " Other notable films
of February 2010 were Toh Baat Pakki (Then the marriage is fixed) with Tabu and Sharman Joshi, Teen Patti (three cards) with Madhavan and Amitabh Bacchan and Khartik Calling Khartik (Karthik called Khartik) with Farhaan Akhtar and Deepika Padukone.
March 2010 saw several new films including Love Sex aur Dhokha (new actors - Amit Sial, Anshuman Jha, Arya Banerjee, etc..) Right Yaa Wrong (right or wrong) with Sunny Deol Konkani Sen and Irfan Khan, Athithi Tum Kab Jaoge (Guest when you go away) with Ajay Devgan, Paresh Rawal and Konkani Sen and Well Done Abba (Bravo Dad) with Manissha Lamba and Boman Irani.
Of these, the most important film was Love, Sex aur Dhokha (Love, sex and betrayal) of the director Dibakar Banerjee. The film deals with the new morality among young Indians, influenced by new technologies (mobile, internet, etc..), The media and social networks like facebook. Some friends have described as a shocking movie at the same time, the most innovative films of Bollywood 2010. Unfortunately, I had the opportunity to see him.
Among the film in April 2010, I really liked the new film by Aparna Sen , The Japanese Wife (The Japanese wife).
Set in a remote village of Bengal in the years before the era of mobile phones and the Internet, The Japanese Wife tells the love story of a teacher of the village, Snehamoy ( Rahul Bose) with her friend of letters, Miyagi (Chigusa Takaku ) who lives in Japan.
Snehamoy lives with his aunt ( Mousami Chatterjee) and decides to marry his Japanese friend at a distance through a letter, is a relationship that both agree to share though, probably has no legal value. His wife Miyagi must look after her elderly mother in Japan. The two regularly exchange letters and some gifts. Some volta Snehamoy cerca di parlare con la moglie al telefono ma sua moglie conosce poco inglese e fa fatica a capire l'accento indiano del marito.
Nella casa di Snehamoy arriva Sandhya, una giovane vedova ( Raima Sen ) con il suo giovane figlio. In un momento di debolezza, Snehamoy ha un contatto con Sandhya, ma poi pieno di senso di colpa, confessa tutto a sua moglie.
E' un film molto poetico sul senso dell'amore, anche se penso che le generazioni di oggi, in India come in Italia, faranno fatica ad accettare un rapporto d'amore a distanza, fatto solo di sentimenti senza la fisicità. Ovviamente il film non è il solito film romantico di Bollywood, ma mi è piaciuto molto. Il film è stato presentato also to the film festival River to River in Florence in December 2010.
Housefull : The second most important film in April, Housefull was the first real movie "masala" Bollywood in 2010 that also had commercial success. The film's plot was convoluted and not very logical, but it was full of dances, colors and dances.
Arush (Akshay Kumar ) is one that brings bad luck in a casino and works to ensure that no customer will win too. He arrives in London by his friend Bob ( Riteish Deshmukh) and his wife Sheetal ( Lara Dutta) who work in a casino. In London, he married Devika Arush ( Jia Khan) daughter of the owner of the casino, but then discovers that his wife is in love with an English boy and Arush, who had married only to please his father (Randhir Kapoor ). Devika goes away with her boyfriend English and Arush left alone, or Saundarya falls in love with Sandy (Deepika Padukone ). Meanwhile, Sheetal's father (Boman Irani ) comes from India. For a mistake, Sheetal's Dad thinks his daughter is the wife of Arusha, and that the two have a child. All accepted to play the game. Bob pretends to be the butler and Saundrya becomes the nurse of a child stolen from a woman of African origin. In addition, Dad di Sheetal è un sonnambulo.
Se non avete capito niente del trama, non è molto importante. Per confondere ulteriormente, nel film vi sono anche i reali inglesi, tra il principe Carlo, la regina Elisabetta e Camilla. Se potete guardare questo film senza cercare di trovare qualche senso di logica, il film vi piacerà.
Altri film importanti dell'aprile 2010 erano Prince (Principe) con Vivek Oberoi e Dia Mirza, e Paathshaala (Scuola) con Shahid Kapoor. Entrambi questi film sono stati rifutati dalla critica e dal pubblico.
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