DesiPundit

Noted director Adoor Gopalakrishnan feels that cinema should be part of curriculum.In an interview published at PFC, Adoor mocks at the self congratulatory international awards that Bollywood dishes out.

See, the Bombay industry never has had this ambition about going abroad or doing different things. They are very happy with their business, with the NRIs watching their films and giving them money from everywhere. Now they have the ambition, but they don’t have the equipment. They try to promote rubbish at international level. You take all the Bombay films to a place like Brussels and from there you have international awards for the Bombay films – that’s a very stupid notion. You congratulate yourself for producing rubbish, and you do it 20 times every year. It is self congratulatory and it is a very pathetic situation. People laugh at you and ridicule you because of that.

Today Bollywood arrogantly assumes itself being the Asian counterpart of Hollywood, but fails to acknowledge the reality:its midget standing in world cinema