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What Are the Main weaknesses Of Bollywood Cinema
Introduction
According to the Central statistic organization of India (2007) the total number of films which are released in India in every year are about one thousand feature films. These figures and statistic data assert that Bollywood in India is the largest movie producing film industry in the world. Those films are not only screened in India but also in other regions of Asia, east Africa, Britain, Canada, Australia, the United States and the eastern Europe countries. There are many characteristics in Indian films that form the distinctions between these kinds of films and others. Some of these features strengthen the Indian films and others weaken them. These characteristics of films can be divided in two groups, content structures and appearance structures.
Film is central to the success of a nation and in unifying the audience despite linguistic, cultural or regional differences. It is usually has been claimed which the two things that integrated the Indian nation are cricket and Bollywood. But the successes of Bollywood in the international scenes have different reason. Some of these reasons create and rise by removing the last weaknesses of Indian films, which will be referred in this essay. ( Nandy, A. 1999)
The main issues that will be argued briefly are, Cost problems in the process of film producing, color, the narrative structure, social problems and taboos, entertainment performance, Indian customs, the presentation of culture variety, political issues, gender, and the clash between modernity and Asian tradition. In the second part negative point of narrative structure and other weaknesses of Bollywood film in late of 20th century especially will be analyzed.
Analysis argument about weaknesses of the Bollywood films
One of the main bollywood film weaknesses is the emphasize the coin story, film of these films on the specific topic as it relates to the struggle of good and evil. One side is all that is good, and another side all that is evil.The struggle between good and evil has been existed at all of society in human history and continues so far. Is this because both good and bad people exist or is it because specific circumstances can elicit a struggle between good and evil in individuals. The conflict emphasize on the latter interpretations and will, first of this explanation, discover what is defined by "evil" and how it has been conceptualized in every film. Good and evil is an inherent section of the nature of every human being and this feature is cleared in private individual behavior when it is manifested by responding and any reaction to specific social condition.
This conflict between good and evil exist from the beginning to end of the film and sometime this debate make the frequently boring scene. Another issues that related to this subject is selection of two groups, the evil is selected of aristocracy and rich rank and the good group is derived of poor rank. This choice maybe opposite of real world and there is not a absolute definition.( Bose, M. 2007)
The failure of evil group is the only sequence and specific result in the end of the film. this state decrease the reality of film story because of the real world there are many evil individual or group is victor of the debate. ( Willis, A. 2003)
Most of these films also have some shortcomings that make the rhythm of the story is very slowly So that the viewer may see the first 30 minutes of the early of film but continue to watch it shall be deterred. . In some scenes of the film is a suffocating silence until the viewer may forget that he/she is watching a movie. Conflict and debate do not scientifically complicated for make more attractive.
The lack of film technique is resulted to be predictable simply the end of the film story for everyone. But in new ways and elaborated methods for film writing for instance in Hollywood film industry, the story is more confused and complicated for predicting without deeper thinking.
One of the most significant factors in the film producing is the cost issues and the amount of financial resources. The Bollywood films usually are produced in lowest cost. The lack of sufficient cost affect on many of aspects of film producing such as making exiting scene, preparing the famous and tactful actor/actress, real-looking locations, specific manifestation, making-up methods. The war scenes and the battlefield scenes are usually artificial and simulated because of the creation of real scene in these situations are very much expensive. The quantity of location is few and the large amounts of a location concentrate on conversation and group discussions. The camera facilities and film taking is amatory and make the boring scenes.
The creativity and use of high level of film taking depend on alert the traditional methods to modernized methods and new technology by spending more and more financial recourses. This problem resulted to present the best concept by the worst framework. Although the best values exist in film content but because of improper technology does not transfer to audiences.
One of the other basic features of Bollywood films is existence of extremely emotional content. The predominance of feeling on logic and intellectual structure caused to well conclusion in all of circumstances. Every worried proposition should convert to hopeful conditions in the end of film similar to cartoon animations.
Although the song and dances are a main characteristic of Bollywood films but sometime the very long song and dance scene corrupt the story continuity in the film. Sometime the unsuitable time choice for song and dance leaves negative effect on quality of whole image of film.
Social problems and taboo reechoed in Bollywood films and this state has some advantages and disadvantages. Occasionally extremely focus on social taboo that related to specific region and local custom cannot reflect a common and universal problem in the human societies. This negative point leads to lose attractiveness of film in the international scenes. for instance the state of women in India and the gender inequality as a social taboo is very differ in comparison of other countries.
The lack of topic diversity in Bollywood films leads to produce more cinema outputs about romantic, family issues, caste, gender inequality, political problems and social problems. There are a few films about scientific-fiction, imaginative, fantastic and horror subjects. Otherwise many of the film and story topic of Indian film are imitated from the western films and Indian film director mentions this problem obviously.
Conclusion
According to the facts, which were thoroughly mentioned above, that is to take a result that, the main weaknesses in Bollywood films in the late of 20th century were cost problems, the lack of film technique, the shortage of reasonable result sequences and domination of emotional state on logical content and the lack of topic diversity. The current progresses in film industry of Bollywood come into being by omitting these weaknesses. The new Bollywood film attract many audiences of different countries in the universe for instance United State, Europian countries, African countries and other regions by applying the high level of quality of content and modernized technology. Evidently in the end of the day there are less shortages in the film industry of Bollywood.
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