Check out Ha Reham and Hashar Bashar from Aamir, Amit Trivedi is a very promising MD
On 10/17/09, V S Rawat <[email protected]> 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 <mnsa...@...> >> 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/
