A huge animation boom is happening in the Indian film industry right now. The Western media have even coined a new term for it - 'Bollymation'. The animation sector is growing so rapidly that India is facing a major skill shortage. According to Variety uptil now India would produce about 5 animated films a year. At the moment there are 92 animated films in production.
The animation boom of course also means a lot more special effects in Hindi feature films. Science fiction and fantasy are genres which require a lot of special effects and have so far been very under-represented in Bollywood. This is now set to change... Normally I would be very excited about this, but for a change I'm rather negative - this is because what Variety writes rings veeeery true:
Critics suggest Indian animators may have a hard time adjusting to original movie productions as they require greater skills, time and capital than subcontract companies focused on TV and advertising work are used to.
"There is no lack of creativity in this country. Every nook and corner has stories and art. There is, however, a lack of imagination, and that comes from not having confidence and being overly dependent on technology alone," says Shailendra Singh, joint managing director of Percept, the company behind "Hanuman."
I mean check out the trailer for the next Amitabh Bachchan release...
Doesn't it remind you of something?
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i don't know, i'd probably like to see it; is it a version of a traditional tale of some kind?
the scene looks a lil like lotr but on the other hand it is somewhat different
and he looks so hilarious in these white hair :P
There's not much info about it on-line, but check this out - it seems to be an adaptation of a novel. And it's actually being marketed as "India's reply to LOTR".
I'm surprised you'd like to see it ;) I kinda doubt it'll be released in Poland though. Maaaaybe if it turns out to be a hit, but I think it's still far from being released, so we won't know that for a while.
It is quite weird how all of a sudden one starts hearing about lots of these projects. If you're interested you can check out the teaser for Love Story 2050 (I'm pretty sure I've seen some of those shots in Hollywood films as well :]). Also there's a big project with Aishwarya called Robot, but I don't think there are any trailers out yet. I think Ram Gopal Varma is working on something as well, but I'm not sure.
i think that i would like it more than i liked lotr, unless it would be really stupid; i dislike the lotr movies because they are too long too boring, the changes to the original plot seem random and the movie plot is hardly coherent;
a bollywood movie is often so charming and sweet that the inconsistant plot is not really so important ;)
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