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In India …

… there is Commercial Cinema. Two and a half hours of story telling sans logic but with a prolonging string of gripping incidents.

And there is Intelligent Cinema. Two and a half hours of story telling. The viewer will be amazed by the enormous amount of thinking and reasoning their brain does while watching the movie and still does for hours after watching the movie.

Intelligent cinema is not the art cinema. Infact art cinema / art film does not exist. There is only Commercial Cinema (CC) and Intelligent Cinema (IC). Not all CCs make money nor all ICs flop. In this 100+ years of Indian cinema, there has been a steady mix of CC and IC which keeps the industry running. While a movie like Lage Raho Munna Bhai made the heads all over the World turn by getting an Oscar nomination, commercial films like Sivaji made it to the UK Top 10 making heads turn.

While watching a movie on TV today, I was struck with the contrast of the CC and IC and how they co-exist in the cinema eco-system.

While my working schedules have deprived me of my blogging time, I am going to start with a series on ‘Intelligent Cinemas from India’ to keep the so called writer in me from sleeping. It is your participation which is going to add value to the series by means of discussions. My views, your views and our take on cinema would now be a regular in this blog.

By the way, I’ve got a domain name and now it is up and running on my blog. My old URL will automatically redirect you here but if you have a problem with it do update your blogroll / feeds to www.tudinesh.com.