Tuesday, August 19, 2008

INDIAN MASALA FILM

Identify the major characteristic of the film.

As we know about different genre of film, like action, romance, thriller, melodrama, comedy, sci-fi movie etc. Each of them has an individual identity. This thing is mainly for Hollywood films. But In Indian film industry Bollywood have its own identity. Maslala. And this masala films are really very appreciated by a huge number of people from India.
There are numbers of genres were found in bollywood masala films like they use song, dance, melodrama, stunts, fight, comedy all together. This makes an Indian film Spices. And these are the major characteristics of the masala film.

How do these differ from the narrative convention of Hollywood?

Yes Indian masala film is different then Hollywood film. How? What really Hollywood does, when they are making any film they are more specific about the film. What they are making, they focus on mainly specific genre. Hollywood film maker’s are pity much narrative about there film making but Indian film have no specific genre. Indian film makers just concentrate on the Script and drama. They put so many things together in a very successful way.

What is the significance of songs in the masala film?

The most significant thing in masala film song is dance. Some time it’s for showing happiness or joyful life, some times sadness. A masala song some time contains moral massages, Social awareness. The most important part is they can use any kind a song in a film in imaginary way.

Saturday, August 16, 2008

Film Analyses of the movie “Enemy of the State” Enlighten of Power and Knowledge.


Knowledge and power these tow things are more or less same thing because if I am well knowledge about a subject or I can say expert that time I can do what I want to do. And that’s call power. So knowledge and power walk always said by said. Any one can be powerful in a particular matter if he/she has particular knowledge about that matter. Like this enlighten of power and knowledge, now I will go to analyses the film “Enemy of the State”.
Enemy of the State is a full frame action-suspense-thriller movie. The story is about a successful lawyer Robert Clayton Dean (Will Smith) how he trapped into a big hassle without his concern. One day when he was shopping around that time he suddenly meat with one of his Client, by this time that guy put a video tape in Dean’s bag without his knowing. The video tape was containing a political murder of a congress man by high official of the National Security Agency. After having the video Dean’s entire life has been changed. They were searching for the video and they were powerful too. Those bad guys made Dean’s normal life into a hell. They capture his Bank account his credit card, cutoff his phone line hack his mobile with satellite frequency monitoring system. Even they put chip or a kind of device that show his states. When no body was to help him out that time a old guy who was former National Security Agency’s Commanding officer. He helps him how to get out of this situation. He thought Dean, how to use those device system. By applying the same technology at the end of the film Dean conquer victory on his enemy. And the moral of the story is if you have knowledge, it mean you have power to do something.