"Indian Movies Have set my Expectations in Love too high"

[Sumana]

Discuss :lol:

Was thinking about this 2nite while having lunch...they really have!

[Scorpio]

Yuh mean de part about falling in love with somebody who turns out to be yuh long lost brother ?

[Falcon]

you have expectation IN love or FOR/ABOUT?OF love? :P

Sorry, I just didnt have a comment to discuss but I thought I'd come credit you on saying that your expectations were TOO high rather than the recently ubiquitous TO high :lol: .

[Solachica]

Well not for me becos its all so fake.
Its always boy and gurl meet and fall in love and run around some trees or singing in rain. Then they find some obstacle to be in their path of love eg by father and are separated and then in the end they end up together.

Most times it shows this sugar coated form of relationships tht doesn't exists.
Even in KANK with the divorce bit it still ended unreal with them finding each other.

But some movies I do love eh. DDLJ wud be my eternal fav.

[vaio]

I agree, its all fake. I love to watch the movies and enjoy the whole drama associated with the falling in love, but i don't base my expectations on the movies.

They have similar story lines .....but when i was a lot younger i must admit that it felt good thinking that relationships are like that ...then reality steps in and you know differently

[Solachica]

.....but when i was a lot younger i must admit that it felt good thinking that relationships are like that ...then reality steps in and you know differently
^^True talk there. :geek:

[sheppy]

i Tink most romantic movies are like that .... maybe indian movies on another plane with the idealism and airy fairy romance stories...
or predictable tradegies ..anyway...atleast indian movies doh show women an men havin sex after the first date...or even kissing for that matter...(lol they rather hide behind trees and tease u with the possibility...but after u've watched 3 indian movies..u know there's no chance)

i mean who wants to watch a movie about real life troubles and hardships...mistakes and blunders...oh wait...dais why dey have lifetime :roll:
my bad....

carry on... :arrow:

[serenity]

Add books to the fray..the Mills and Boons and Harlequins that promise true love forever, and the guy will always havewell developed shoulders and hazel/grey/green/blue eyes and bring u to the heights of passion..orgasm guaranteed every time. :lol:
U should hear my friend cuss about that... :lol:
Anyway, even though we know its make-believe, I think it really does implant in our minds the possibility of love so true.

[sheppy]

^^^^^ bwahahaha...my friend show me dem book once...i almost ded wit laugh...
he looked lustily at her quivering mound ...:lol:

[vaio]

:lol:

[Solachica]

Indian movies does have kissing in it now eh.
No more hiding behind trees and thing again for some.

[sheppy]

yeh sola...but it still taboo...

guys an girls in india doh even hold hands...d guys hold hands tho...(quite strange)

look how richard Gere geh bun in effigy for kissin dat woman in public...an not even on d lips or anything...

anyway..what i want to know is...why all indian movie de people does have to sing wit an echo effect...like dey on a mountain top...

[Solachica]

Yea dem does get on dotish for somethings. Like on Vday how they does go burn stores etc.

[vaio]

not only dat,if you on the cricket team and you lorse...well heaven help you and your family, but if you win, then you are worshipped...some of them are real fanatics to the extent of psychos...

[dhal]

u was eatin lunch in d nite???? :?

[Silky]

aye, hear nah....I always tort my life would turn out like an Indian movie but thank God it isn't!

Anyways.....I'm not in a good position to talk about love right now....so I jus spamming.

I jus so damn glad meh boy Shahid break up with Kareena! And yuh know she dump him, cuz she was two timing him with Saif!

Poor baby...he can come here and marry me! :D

[strombo23]

ah yes. i remember d fus time ah indian movie had that affect on me. Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge wit meh real boy Shahrukh Khan and Kajol. Was in Kaydonna and d movie had just come tnt. I'm usually a skeptic, but some how at that young age, the coordination of the elements of that movie really made me believe that love at its purest can be like that. when i ask friends that do watch, what was there fav indian movie, most say Devdas. But I still say Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge. i was on a high for months on months after seeing that movie. had a crush on Kajol for bout 2 years. :lol: till i met a girl dat looked like Karishma :lol:

dem Mills and Boons books...one time a fren send meh an excerpt, ah get bothered one time :)

[dhal]

"bothered" yuh say :roll: :P

[dhal]

but seriously ppl...love can be like it is in indian movies..maybe not d singing and d snow capped mountains in skimpy clothes, but the emotion...and i think indian movies have a point...notice they all hadda go thru REAL stress b4 dey end up happy? well, yuh have to go thru all the sucky relationships so when yuh get a good one, or THE good one, yuh cud recognize and appreciate it...an no ah soundin real cliche, but daz how it is/was wit me....

[brag]

Sathya Sai Baba says that Indian movies are made in such a way as to demean Indian women. I don't know if he had a special movie in mind or if he was speaking about Indian movies in general. I never liked Indian movies anyway, mostly because I never can understand them.

[sheppy]

please dhal...indian movies does have REAL stress...jus fuh d drama of it...so dat it cud jerk allyuh woman into tears in d end...

is really kinda over-emotional i find...dees longgg dramatic pauses...completely unrealistic sound effects and random bursts into song...
but i guess it still entertaining...an de woman an dem hott ;) d music eh bad...i did like kal ho naa ho....

de men does wear clothes like dey tink miami vice still in style..buh das ok...

[kemist]

99.9% of indian movies are still musicals. This tells us that the main viewing audience is still stuck in the old days and i cant blame the writers/producers/directors for repeatedly cooking up old recipes- because that seems to be successful. Movies without song and dance don't seem to do too well in india.
Some movies do have clever scripts and screenplays like "1943, a love story" which tells the tale appropriately about a couple in that era.
I dont think indian movies have set my expectations in love too high maybe because i know we live in different times and most of those love-story movie plots are still based on life during my parents and grandparents days.

one thing i learned tho, is never to hire an indian mason, because they never build strong brick walls (since people always get thrown through them and they are easily knocked down)
and
indian men are bullet proof :lol: :D

[Mivo]

I like indian movies for the entertainment, story line an songs. I would never set my expectations for love based on a movie but dais just me...ah doh like english movies cause ah doh understand it an d cussing ah cyar stand but to each it's own

[Solachica]

I asked a few people from india whts it abt the Hindi movies and they said the movies are for entertainment. It helps take people into 3 hrs of romance and song and dance to get them for tht time to not face reality and poverty etc.

[dhal]

i eh see nuttin wrong abt d song an dance...nobody have a prob wit broadway...is d same ting...except d trees an the aforementioned snow capped mountains...

[Solachica]

:D I like the song and dance oui.
Wish I cudda dance :mrgreen:

[kayt]

It's just entertainment nothing more.

[sheppy]

But half d time...d man does dead in d movie..and while breathing his last breath..he hold d star girl an d nex man hand together

that can't be what you expect from love...

[draja]

Sathya Sai Baba says that Indian movies are made in such a way as to demean Indian women. I don't know if he had a special movie in mind or if he was speaking about Indian movies in general. I never liked Indian movies anyway, mostly because I never can understand them.

Sathya Sai Baba is probably referring to his collection of Indian porno movies. I love indian movies mostly for the songs, especially those old indian movies. In real life they ill treat their wives in so many ways, but Sumana is such a romantic to enjoy the storyline.

[Sumana]

lol i'm a hopeless romantic :( real tears too!!
and draja that comment about Swami was uncalled for.

[vaio]

oh gosh i watch 2 indian movies over the weekend...one thing for sure they does make me cry... :(

[Sumana]

I real fraid to watch indian movies when i sad...then is more tears dan usual

[vaio]

Gosh yea.... :(

[Sumana]

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Jhoom Barabar Jhoom - first indian movie in a long while all laughs no tears :D

[vaio]

ah must check it out...who in it.?

[Sumana]

Abshishek, Lara Dutta, Bobby Deol, Preity Zinta

[vaio]

ok, thanx :)

[draja]

Ah hear Om Shanti Om has lots of stars in it.
Suwwy bout de Swami eh. I've got a friend who goes often to one of them Ashrams in India. Not only religous stuff goes on there.

[Silky]

check out Shaka Laka Boom Boom, it kinda long & annoying though, it stars Bobby Deol, Upen Patel, Celina Jaitley and Kangna-Ranaut. The music is gr8, by Himesh Reshammiya.

http://www.dishant.com/albums/9538.jpg

[Falcon]

Indian movie buffs, I have a question.

A friend handed me a DVD and said this was a must-see. The name of it is Lagoon, or Lagaan or something so.

Is it any good? Should I look at it?

Thanks! 8-)

[Sumana]

LOL Lagoon lol lol lol

Lagaan :P and yes it's a must seee!!!

[Solachica]

Jhoom Barabar Jhoom was not worth watching. I waste some time fastforwarding :D

[vaio]

Jhoom Barabar Jhoom was not worth watching. I waste some time fastforwarding :D

i feel i may give it a try...

As for Lagaan...i thought it was a pretty good movie... :geek:

[serenity]

Falcon,
I'm not a lover of Indian movies or romantic movies generally, but Laagan was FANTASTIC. Storyline was well told. If cricket is yuh thing u sure to love it.

[sheppy]

wait..it have a movie called shaka laka boom boom ...
bwhahahaha... :lol:



:oops: ah sorry...



nahhhhh.....bwhahahahahahaha :lol: BOOM shaka laka *cough* *choke* boom !

[vaio]

:? :?

[Solachica]

I haven't seen Lagaan but ent tht was nominated for something? Was in Cannes?

[Solachica]

The indian movie the other day with amitab and the young gyul was an ok movie yuh know. He was ah old chef and he ah young gyul who he lend he umbrella :D

[Solachica]

I haven't seen Lagaan but ent tht was nominated for something? Was in Cannes?

[Falcon]

the dvd says nominated for oscar, and number 14 of BBC's 100 movies to see before you die.

[dhal]

falcon...see it...trust meh...

[Solachica]

Oh it was the oscars. I know I remember seeing aamir khan all dressed up for an awards ceremony

[ISME]

Check out an Indian movie call Bhagban(spelling). Ah friend recommended it and I'm not sorry I looked at it, boss movie!

[vaio]

it was a great movie...i cried so many times......

I try not to look at too much indian movies, since they make me cry all the time.. :(