R&D.....Will Bollywood ever Bother?

This came to my mind, when I had heard a story about a thief; that how carefully did his necessary fact finding about a neighborhood; about its populace; their behavior, their activities and most importantly how many families keep more cash and ornaments at home and goes dining out in the night, keeping thy home deserted with minimal protection, forget about insurance against Burglary; and after all his facts on board, the thief will circle up the house nos that comes up as the potential targets..Well, he ventures out a successful ambush and runs Scot-free, at-least till the time he enjoys his new found possession!!

I wonder, if ever Bollywood learn from this incident; today, the biggest Film Industry in the world with one of the most talented ensemble of great Stars, Directors,Composers, Writers, Choreographers, and whole host of technology available; all you will here: "Karan Johar remaking Agnipath"...xyz remaking "Khel Khel Main"..Farhan Akhtar not content with the remake of Don, making "Don 2"......Phew..

Come on...When will Bollywood MAKE movies...

Bollywood is running out of ideas...Not only movie-makers, but composers as well; Pritam in Once upon a time in Mumbai with " Duniya main" and worse still, turning the golden "Dum Maro Dum" in a piece of garbage is what the result of dying out of ideas. Or the Latest "Oye Oye" in Dhamaal 2..Even 'Jalebi Bi' looked superior to it!!

This is heartening; because Bollywood has great muscle and prowess to invest in Research, either for a Great script or a great Song; but they won't do it. They would like to race ahead of time. Or Perhaps, everyone wants to play safe; the fear of failure or to potential loss in the box office collections!!

For example, excel entertainment which made "Luck by Chance", "Lakshya or a "Kartik Calling Kartik", which were closely original scirpts(though could have distant semblance to oldies) could not set the box office on fire. Though these were great scripts with superb direction and memorable music, since they failed to create any magic in the minds of viewers, they decided to turn the easy way out..ZINDEGI NA MILEGI DOBARA..its a clear and unambiguous charter of the continuation of earlier Box office Hero DIL CHAHTA HAIN..and the result, the movie is a Blockbuster now.

Karan Johar for example, made a bold attempt "Kabhie alvida Na Kehna" and it was a box office dud. Then he decided to ride on the wave of the 9*11 rampage and made "My Name is Khan"..and became somewhat successful.

Some laudable attempts went bizarre in box-office. One of them is "Patiala House", which was supposed to be based on ace English spin wizard Monty Panesar. It had everything, great star-cast, great music and a good biography inspired story. But it was blamed due to loose screenplay and Akshay's eroding fortunes in recent times.

"Udaan" walked away with many awards; but the biggest award, that of the box office haunted it. Some of the movie-goers did not even know when it came and went.

Now, let's talk about someone who "thinks' that he really does R&D for stories and screenplays. Mr Aamir Khan, the self-proclaimed perfectionist. For starters, "Ghulam" was a commendable effort; followed by ultra-fast "Sarfarosh"..then "Lagaan" as they say, rest is history. Aamir Khan's attempts at history is not all high all the time. For example, "Mangal Pandey", the actor took close to 3 years to come up with the epic saga, but it bombed in box office like a balloon. But this was a great effort that viewers gave least attention too.

But shocking for a man who can recreate a Mangal Pandey, how can he create a D.K.Bose? No matter how much Aamir presses about his diversity and versality, but I would deeply condone it as an attempt at cheap publicity and way of attracting the youth.

When a doyen of the industry takes the short cut to success, what can one expect from others?

Well, not entirely correct that statement is!! SJB....one director/producer who can be still seen an act Original..Guzarish was a fantastic attempt or a bold attempt in recent times..but people did not care much.

The why does Bollywood, not care for what viewers like; as in the case of a FMCG or a consumer durable or a Pharmaceutical company invests half of their wealth in R&D and consumer research.

Bollywood has the muscle..All its need the will.

Then only we hope, we will see more of "A wednesday" or a "Raincoat" or "No one killed Jessica"or a "TZP"

Till then we are waiting to see some changes. Or someone needs to become an Anna Hazare and come to a fast to make Bollywood think seriously about making "Original" Movies.