Bollywood is Bollywood!
Today, after watching 'Shootout at Lokhandwala' (SAL), I realized that there is huge difference in the quality of movies produced in Hollywood and Bollywood. Directors like Quentin Tarantino, Woody Allen and Steven Spielberg make movies which has lots of research and study. Not only the shot but the finest detail of shot gets enough attention. Movies which are having based on past events are shot with great precision to make sure that they don't have any present day detail.
In SaL I found few blunt mistakes which could have been fixed while shooting or at least at the editing time. On the top of mind few things come are -
- Tata Indigo! - The movie is shot in 1989-1992 timeframe. When Sunil Shetty makes a blank call to his wife, I could see a white colored Tata Indigo car passing by. Its impossible to see that car in 1991! The car was launched in India in year 2002. Strange to see that car in 1991.
- AA Group posters! - In the song 'Ganpat' when group of people are dancing on the top of a bus, we could easily see 'Anil Dhirubhai Ambani' Group advertisements on the light poles. This group was founded in 2005 after division of Ambani group of companies. I thought roots of this group were founded in 1992
In addition to that, there are other small mistakes too. Which you can easily find like the bikes which were not present in movie time line etc.
Looks like Indian directors have to put little more efforts in research and analysis to make movie more authentic and real. Movies like Hollywood ending, Schindler's List were based on past events. They were so real that you will believe those were produced from original footage which was conceived in the movie timeline.
Off to see Shrek 3!
at least you would not end up seeing an indica in shrek 3.
Sushubh
3 Jun 07 at 12:17 am
I agree that Hollywood movies appear to be better researched and anachronism is rampant in most Bollywood movies. But the fact is that Bollywood movies do not have the production budget of a Hollywood movie neither the reach / earning capacity. So as a movie producer, can you afford to be pedantic about a Tata Indica in a shot and re-shoot it or would you care more about ending up with some additional profits ?
Prashant Gandhi
3 Jun 07 at 9:35 am
Prashant:
Production budget is a debatable issue as there are movies which pay 10 crore rupees for only lead actor! Moreover, for useless item numbers spending (rather, wasting) another few crore rupees. I am not asking for an outrageous thing, this is about common thinking and some care which they have to take while shooting.
If they couldn’t figure it while shooting, at least while mixing they could achieve some bit of that. I enjoyed the movie though!
Sachin
3 Jun 07 at 6:15 pm
Excuse me… Check out, http://www.imdb.com goofs and http://www.moviemistakes.com to know the hollywood mistakes… You know, no one is perfect.
Indian movies doesn’t have a site of its own to list such mistakes…
Yet
4 Jun 07 at 11:42 pm