On 10/18/2009 6:27 AM India Time, _Vinayakam Murugan_ wrote: > Don't think Slumdog Millionaire was about the money
Right. > - it was a low > budget movie. It's really just down to luck of the draw... the problem > is the attachment of the Boss to a movie before it is made helps to > raise finance. How can the Boss know how the film will turn out after > it's been completed. ? That is where the "auditor's finger" is needed. he needs to evolve some ways to figure that out. In any case, if the first film can't be predicted, doing a second film for Anthony D'souza or Ketan Mehta (Mangal Pandey) would be a totally wrong decision. -- Rawat > --- In [email protected], Vinayakam Murugan <mvinaya...@...> wrote: >> Check out Ha Reham and Hashar Bashar from Aamir, >> >> Amit Trivedi is a very promising MD >> >> On 10/17/09, V S Rawat <vsra...@...> wrote: >>> On 10/17/2009 1:17 PM India Time, _balajirajagopal_ wrote: >>> >>>> My personal view is that this is a very "convenient" and unfair >>>> comment to make. Comeon, how many of you sincerely thought that JTYJN >>>> would be a monster hit or that Delhi 6 would be disaster - and that >>>> too when the movie was being made? >>> Can't say about JTYJN. It came out of the blue, no information at all and >>> then music released just like that, along with Ada, soon followed by the >>> movie, so I couldn't get any opinion really made entangled in all that. >>> >>> but, I didn't expect D6 to flop at all. I had thought it would follow RDB >>> success of ROP Mehra, alongwith even more allrounder music by our man in D6 >>> than was in RDB. The OP saying that D6 was to be a flop couldn't be correct. >>> everybody expected it to be a big hit. >>> >>>> It is all a question of how a >>>> director visualises the movie, storyline etc when he talks to ARR. >>>> ARR must obviously have had some faith in the >>>> Director/storyline/Producer when he signed those movies. He cannot be >>>> faulted that they failed. >>> Yaar, when 1-2 movies flop, it could be a change, but when more than half >>> the movies ARR is doing are flopping on box office, there has to be some >>> problem in selection. >>> >>> Of course, ARR is not responsible for the movies going flop, he always >>> giving great music. But, one should sense that there is something wrong in >>> his selection of movies. >>> >>>> Yes...one thing that ARR could look at is >>>> signing the big banners. Having said that even a Yashraj films had a >>>> series of bloopers last year. So, what does he do? He cannot be >>>> insisting that Aamir khan signs him for every film or that Shankar or >>>> Mani Rathinam make a movie every 6 months (And yes...pls do not >>>> forget that notwithstanding of its excellent music, Dil Se, Thiruda >>>> Thiruda or even Iruvar were big flops!! >>> I don't know about Tamil versions of Thiruda Thiruda or Iruvar, but Dil Se >>> getting flop didn't harm anybody really. :-) ha ha. Everybody associated >>> with the film gained a lot of critical and public acclaim for it. >>> >>> Similarly, for Hindi Yuva, it had so much expectations that local cinema >>> halls here have even increased the rates for all classes just for this movie >>> as they said that movie was sold to them at much high cost. Not just >>> multiplex, but even the single screen traditional theatres. And it was the >>> first time in my entire life that I had seen these theatres increasing rates >>> just for one movie. And Yuva no way did even slightly near that expectation >>> on box office. >>> >>> A well made movie flopping on box office hurts only those Ronnie Screwala >>> financers who put moolah in the movie. They don't get returns on investment >>> whereas everybody else gains from such a movie. We still want ARR to work >>> with Deepa Mehta even though none of her films is a superhit. >>> >>> Still, films flopping on account of being badly made (like Mangal Pandey or >>> Blue) is what hurts them. And such movies hurt everybody related with the >>> film, even the MD or background people. That is where the choice of >>> selection comes - Whether the people associated with the movie were wrong in >>> deciding to do it. >>> >>> D6 could be an exception that it was a badly executed movie and so it >>> flopped, but we would still like to see ARR pairing with ROP Mehra. >>> >>>> My request - Pls do a movie with Karan Johar, Aditya Chopra and >>>> Farhan Akhtar. If not nothing else, at least the chances of the movie >>>> being a hit is higher than for the other directors!!! >>> yes, these directors have shown a consistent music sense in their movies, so >>> they should be given some consideration even though some of their movies >>> don't do well on box office or even music didn't do well. >>> >>> What happens in the background dealings is not get known, but one thing that >>> had come out was ARR refusing Om Shanti Om solely because ARR wanted >>> percentage of sales that SRK didn't agree. Well, OSO become a super hit, so >>> ARR not doing it came out as a wrong decision. And why at all he didn't do >>> it? because of money. So sad. ARR is not known for such small things like >>> money, so he should not refuse such promising films like OSO if he doesn't >>> get money, and should not do disasters like blue just because he got lots of >>> money. that's where his decision comes, and such incidences show that his >>> decisions have not always been right. >>> >>>> Cheers, Balaji >>> -- >>> Rawat >>> >>>> --- In [email protected], mohammed sajin <mnsajin@> >>>> wrote: >>>>> Blue the last disaster in Boss's account! >>>>> >>>>> It is very much painful to see all these superior works gone ruin. >>>>> How many time this happens!!! >>>>> >>>>> Except with some established directors(or Ameer Khan), AR movies >>>>> could not manage success in both quality-wise and in box-office. >>>>> >>>>> Certainly there is lot of new talented directors in both Hindi and >>>>> Tamil. Unfortunately ARR would not opt them, or viceversa. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> We don't want anymore movies like BLUE, Yuvvraaj, Sakkarakatti, >>>>> ATM,Kangalal Kaidhu Sei, E20 U18, Godfather, Parasuraam, Anbe >>>>> aaruyire, SOK, etc etc >>> >> -- >> Sent from my mobile device >> >> Warm Regards >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> Vinayak >> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/rightplacerighttime/ >> > > >
