Sholay remains a landmark movie in many ways. It heralded a revival for an industry that was seeking newer ways to sustain and prosper.
Then the kids took over and for many many years we had the same worn out love stories and their attendant cliched craps. But good music and beautiful locales made up for the terrible stuff. There have been many such trend setting movies and each of them has had its own pirated originality.
Delhi Belly will probably be another landmark movie. A few years from now when we happen to watch a movie full of abusive language and explicitly shown forbidden stuff, we should remember Delhi Belly as the father of decadence in Indian cinema.
Aamir..what a mighty fall.
And talking of benchmarks, i also recollect an event that happened sometime ago.
Ilayaraja got the first national award for background score music (in a malayalam movie). Unlike in Hollywood, indian cinema does not recogise BGS as a category for awards. Awards for film music in india are based on how popular the songs in a film are. Thats pathetic. And the decision to seperate the two stream of film music for awards indeed is a welcome change. I dont know how many remember, the best background score (or re-recording) in my memory is for the film Lagaan. Each character was identified by a music. And it was incidentally the same Aamir...
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