It Is Time Bollywood Started Taking ‘Make In India’ Seriously, Says Nirmal Singh Lotus Green
When Yash Chopra decided to take
Bollywood to Switzerland, he didn’t know that he is, in fact, bringing the
world to India and is feeding the escapists fantasies of us Indian who just
cannot get enough of the snow-covered mountains and Sri Devi dancing in the wind
with Rishi Kapoor. But maybe now it is time that we think less about the
western trends and concentrate on ‘Make in India’ - Nirmal Singh Lotus Green
We have endless access to global
movies, cinema and television. We do not have to switch on the television for that;
we have everything right in our ‘smartphones’. And when we decide to watch the
movies, songs and previews of the upcoming movies, all we can see are the
designer brands, foreign locations and our very own Deepikas and Kareenas
drenched from head to toe in the western culture. Why is this? Is it necessary?
Are we really that insecure about our own culture and heritage that we cannot
show that on reel? Or are we too scared to paint a false picture of India?
According to the reviews of Nirmal Singh Lotus Green, the five most
successful movies of the year so far were shot and made in India: Raees,
Badrinath ki Dulhaniya, Jolly LLB, Hindi Medium, and of course, the magnum
opus, Baahubali – The Conclusion. These movies should be the trend setters but
for some reason, directors and film makers still think that shooting movies
domestically or working on scripts that are ‘Indian’ is a risk not worth
taking.
Nirmal Singh Lotus Green says that the movies and stories they are shooting in Europe with
Indian actors wouldn’t be believable if they were shot here in India. The
movies that were shot in India and were way too close to reality and made
people uncomfortable stirred a lot of controversy.
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