Dostana

Just last week, my group presented for our communications 101 presentation. It was a great experience working with my fellow group members as they were all very supportive and enthusiastic!  The group project really helped my understanding in the communications module and it teaches me to be able to watch shows from different perspectives.

I realised, beyond the superficial way of watching movies for the plot and celebrities staring in it, there’s so much more meaning to the film beneath the layer!  I learnt, every action, every scene, every detail has a motive behind it.  And each execution is being thought through thoroughly and is shot to perfection, or rather shot to what best portray its message before it is shown on screen.

Our group did on Dostana, a popular bollywood film, and did our reseach on indian films versus hollywood films but we mainly analysed the indian film.

The film is actually a film about friendship, Dostana which actually means friendship.  As we can see the India is slowly moving away from its traditional way of filming and it seems, steering towards the hollywood influence.  The settings of the movie is all shot in Miami, a very liberal place where homosexuality is acceptable.  For an indian film to touch on homosexuality which is largely frown upon and a highly sensitive topic in india, i salute the producer’s courage.

It can be seen, the producer seems to be testing the water in the indian market whether it is a suitable time to bring in western influence into the country.  Since few years ago, Mtv was brought into india, it was not well received. Now it seems india is ready for some changes! Dostana’s one of the biggest movie hits in india and the female lead even won some asian award! Brilliant!

Through humor, song and dance, as well as settings away from India. The movie is made in a light-hearted and “fun” manner to soften the resistance of the traditional Indian cultural beliefs on homosexuality; but the continual use of the song and dance keep the movie in line with other Bollywood movies.  It can be seen, it still tries to keep tinges of Indian flavour in the film, all’s not lost yet. The settings is in Miami since gays are prohibited in India and this film might be trying to portray gays as fun loving people just like others and hopefully gain acceptance in India.

Our group fell in love with the movie after we did an analysis of it! It is awesome!.. CATCH IT SOMETIME GUYS.. =)

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