So we were having this discussion a few days back. It all started when we watched some shitty movie. Then from somewhere someone mentioned what a great movie “Dil Chahta Hai” was; and naturally, most of us happily agreed. I love that movie. Some attitude man!
Anyway, so one of our friends, the movie critique of the gang – Anish Karindikar – gave everyone a piece of his mind. According to him, DCH was simply the better shit among the trash that Bollywood was dishing out at that time. The guts! He barely escaped a GPL, but sparked a heated debate in its wake.
We were all simply apalled at the very fact that someone could even dislike DCH. Anish's main argument was that DCH was simply a feel good, non realistic, entertainment movie, with no “value”. Big deal, we said. Movies are supposed to be for entertainment, aren't they? Sure a lot of good movies carry some moral-of-the-story as well. But if a movie is “purely” entertainment, isn't it worth being called a good movie?
From there we went on to things like: movies reflect a society's values. If a movie is just entertainment and nothing else, what does it say about the society? Others said that nothing is “pure” entertainment, and everything has “some” value.
What are movies for?
So we were having this discussion a few days back. It all started when we watched some shitty movie. Then from somewhere someone mentioned what a great movie “Dil Chahta Hai” was; and naturally, most of us happily agreed. I love that movie. Some attitude man!
Anyway, so one of our friends, the movie critique of the gang – Anish Karindikar – gave everyone a piece of his mind. According to him, DCH was simply the better shit among the trash that Bollywood was dishing out at that time. The guts!
He barely escaped a GPL, but sparked a heated debate in its wake.
We were all simply apalled at the very fact that someone could even dislike DCH. Anish's main argument was that DCH was simply a feel good, non realistic, entertainment movie, with no “value”. Big deal, we said. Movies are supposed to be for entertainment, aren't they? Sure a lot of good movies carry some moral-of-the-story as well. But if a movie is “purely” entertainment, isn't it worth being called a good movie?
From there we went on to things like: movies reflect a society's values. If a movie is just entertainment and nothing else, what does it say about the society? Others said that nothing is “pure” entertainment, and everything has “some” value.