Re: [silk] Examplars of genre in Indian movies

2017-02-02 Thread harry 
I saw this brilliant, brutal movie last year on a long-haul flight called
"Titli" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3019620/) about a family of
car-jackers in Delhi...perhaps a candidate for the Gangster genre ...



On 22 January 2017 at 09:28, Thaths  wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 2:08 PM Udhay Shankar N  wrote:
>
> > Gangster: Nayakan
> >
>
> Gangster: Don
>
> Thaths
>

Re: [silk] Examplars of genre in Indian movies

2017-01-22 Thread Hari Shenoy 
A great example of a road trip movie that I really enjoyed was neelakasham
pachakadal chuvanna bhoomi (Malayalam), which involved two guys biking from
Kerala to the North East.

On 22 Jan 2017 5:37 am, "Thaths"  wrote:

The other day I was thinking of whether there was such a thing as a "road
movie" in Indian cinema. After just a few minutes I could list a handful of
Indian films that could be considered road movies:

Madras to Pondicherry (Tamil)
Bombay to Goa
Chennai Express

All these films were road trips on a mass transit system. I wondered if
there were films where the protagonist(s) traveled more independently. I
didn't have to think long to come up with:

Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
Swades

to add to the list.

This got me thinking about two things:

1. What is an exemplar Indian movie for each genre? Wikipedia, helpfully,
has a list of genres .

2. Are there genres where we have not had an Indian film made? For
localized genres (such as Mexican sex comedy, Yakuza, Blaxploitation,
etc.), what the closest Indian genre?

Let me get things rolling with the following:

Spaghetti Western: Sholay
Black comedy: Jaane bhi do yaaro

What are other exemplars in Indian cinema of various genre? Are there genre
('Space opera', for example) where you can't think of a single Indian movie?

Thaths

Re: [silk] Examplars of genre in Indian movies (Thaths)

2017-01-21 Thread Thaths 
On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 3:46 PM Shoba Narayan 
wrote:

> Coming of age
> 16 Vayadhunile
>

Good one. I can also think of a couple of college-oriented films that would
fit this genre.


> Bird Cage, one of my favorites, has to be a genre in and of itself.
>

Wouldn't you classify it as a comedy?

Thaths

[silk] Examplars of genre in Indian movies (Thaths)

2017-01-21 Thread Shoba Narayan 
Semiya-upma western
Quick Gun Murugan
Baasha

Coming of age
16 Vayadhunile

Road trip
All those Ooty movies with Nagesh
Barfi???

Bird Cage, one of my favorites, has to be a genre in and of itself.

Re: [silk] Examplars of genre in Indian movies

2017-01-21 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian 
Coming of age for a girl - though amateurishly handled - Gippy

--srs

> On 22-Jan-2017, at 9:27 AM, karthik natarajan <kart...@majorchaos.in> wrote:
> 
> Coming of age: jo jeta wahi sikandar, udaan, rockford
> Triller+drama: 3 deewarein.
> 
> 
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> 
> Are there any teenage coming-of-age movies? I can't remember. But I suppose
> Lakshya would be a coming-of-age movie.
> Mythology comedy (is this really a genre?) - Maya Bazar
>> On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 8:38 AM Udhay Shankar N <ud...@pobox.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Gangster: Nayakan
>>

Re: [silk] Examplars of genre in Indian movies

2017-01-21 Thread Thaths 
On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 2:53 PM Venkatesh H R  wrote:

> Are there any teenage coming-of-age movies? I can't remember. But I suppose
> Lakshya would be a coming-of-age movie.
> Mythology comedy (is this really a genre?) - Maya Bazar
>

Interesting. I guess the closest Hollywood genre would be one of those
Gladiator/Roman films (Quo Vadis, Ben Hur). But they don't quite have the
comedy thread running through them.

Thaths





> On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 8:38 AM Udhay Shankar N  wrote:
>
> > Gangster: Nayakan
> >
>

Re: [silk] Examplars of genre in Indian movies

2017-01-21 Thread Thaths 
On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 2:08 PM Udhay Shankar N  wrote:

> Gangster: Nayakan
>

Gangster: Don

Thaths

Re: [silk] Examplars of genre in Indian movies

2017-01-21 Thread karthik natarajan 
Coming of age: jo jeta wahi sikandar, udaan, rockford
Triller+drama: 3 deewarein.


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Are there any teenage coming-of-age movies? I can't remember. But I suppose
Lakshya would be a coming-of-age movie.
Mythology comedy (is this really a genre?) - Maya Bazar
On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 8:38 AM Udhay Shankar N <ud...@pobox.com> wrote:

> Gangster: Nayakan
>

Re: [silk] Examplars of genre in Indian movies

2017-01-21 Thread Venkatesh H R 
Are there any teenage coming-of-age movies? I can't remember. But I suppose
Lakshya would be a coming-of-age movie.
Mythology comedy (is this really a genre?) - Maya Bazar
On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 8:38 AM Udhay Shankar N  wrote:

> Gangster: Nayakan
>

Re: [silk] Examplars of genre in Indian movies

2017-01-21 Thread Udhay Shankar N 
Gangster: Nayakan

Re: [silk] Examplars of genre in Indian movies

2017-01-21 Thread Shyam Sunder 
Also sports - Chak de India, and now Dangal

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On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 5:36 AM, Thaths <tha...@gmail.com> wrote:

Spaghetti Western: Sholay
> Black comedy: Jaane bhi do yaaro
>

​Sports: Lagaan​

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Re: [silk] Examplars of genre in Indian movies

2017-01-21 Thread Udhay Shankar N 
On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 5:36 AM, Thaths  wrote:

Spaghetti Western: Sholay
> Black comedy: Jaane bhi do yaaro
>

​Sports: Lagaan​

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[silk] Examplars of genre in Indian movies

2017-01-21 Thread Thaths 
The other day I was thinking of whether there was such a thing as a "road
movie" in Indian cinema. After just a few minutes I could list a handful of
Indian films that could be considered road movies:

Madras to Pondicherry (Tamil)
Bombay to Goa
Chennai Express

All these films were road trips on a mass transit system. I wondered if
there were films where the protagonist(s) traveled more independently. I
didn't have to think long to come up with:

Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
Swades

to add to the list.

This got me thinking about two things:

1. What is an exemplar Indian movie for each genre? Wikipedia, helpfully,
has a list of genres .

2. Are there genres where we have not had an Indian film made? For
localized genres (such as Mexican sex comedy, Yakuza, Blaxploitation,
etc.), what the closest Indian genre?

Let me get things rolling with the following:

Spaghetti Western: Sholay
Black comedy: Jaane bhi do yaaro

What are other exemplars in Indian cinema of various genre? Are there genre
('Space opera', for example) where you can't think of a single Indian movie?

Thaths