Indian Cinema

Watched TIGER 3

What I liked :

1. Message of Peace between the two nations.
2. Message that citizens are not the enemy, the army is (tbh whole army is not too, but that would be asking too much)
3. Democracy >> Military Rule / Authoritarianism
4. Hand to Hand Combat

What I didn't like :

1. sudden drop in frame rates because the director didn't know what should have been shot in slow-motion
2. Milking :
3. excess pathan cameo, they just stopped before it could've been cringe.
4. too many entries of Salman Khan, glorifing him too much, I could easily argue that were characters that deserved more recognition than him.
5. the national antheme performed inside the Pakistan PM House or whatever, its pure milking through patriotism, everyone in the cinema hall stood for it, if that scene weren't in the movie, it would have been better for me atleast, it felt so unnatural, and how did the girls knew indian antheme, I don't know shit about Pakistan, even if I were some musician I doubt I would ever know that.
6. Weak Villain, Imran Hashmi was just not potential Wazir-E-Azam in my eyes.
7. 2nd Half feels boring in comparison to 1st Half. The 2nd Half was too focused on 1 story 1 scene.

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@desicinema why no one is here?

Indeed, this is a slight misnomer. What or who is desi vs. South Asian? Recognizing that Indians from the subcontinent tend to have friction with the term "South Asian," it still encompasses the countries that share some cultural commonalities (like food, clothing, language, genetics).

That said, here are three *Indian *films to get started with: -1. Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayange (1995) -2. Sholay (1975) -3. 3 Idiots (2009)

I don't expect any complete newbies to Indian film to hang around these parts, so feel free to add any more suggestions for those said noobs. After all, discussing Indian films is why this community exists. Posts may be in any appropriate language - know that your audience is predominantly English speaking.