Somebody in user comments says only 20 people were in theater watching this. Well, why not? Why wasn't it made in Hindi?
All the characters look funny talking in english - the auto driver, the policemen and even the rioters!!!
Good intentions are fine and I am sure it must not have been an easy movie to make but still it could have been done better. Fact is it looks not much better than the coverage of any news channel of these riots.
its in english? that is major bull. was looking forward to watching it but what the hell? english?
shareIt struck me as pretty strange too. I watched it on DVD and thought that for release in India, it would've been dubbed. What a shame. It's a brilliant film as it stands but would have been more powerful in Hindi or Gujurati.
shareKnowing that this movie will not get a similar projection as any bollywood gets because of it's subject, I believe it was a smart move from the Producer to make this in English so atleast international audience could watch and understand the pain of indian minorities.
Also according to my understanding (i may be wrong) more people india understand english than hindi.
Having said all tha I think it was a great movie and I think there should be a Hindi version too for those who do not understand English.
This film is powerful, PERIOD!! Just cos its not in hindi, it doesnt make it any less impressive. The film didnt win 2 national award for nothing, it recived great critical acclaim because of the way it was made and the way everyone performed.
shareyeah u are right.They look so odd.U can't get the same feelings.Good movie but done stupidly.
sharePlus the fact that not every Indian speaks Hindi there are other languages.
shareDONE STUPIDLY! Oh i understand, maybe you would've liked them to put in a few song & dance sequences composed by himesh reshamiya and also put in a couple of over-the-top hindi dialogues & action to turn the film into a mass entertainer. I totally agree with you, You dont get the same feeling!! lol.
shareYes I agree it was done stupidly. Not because of the stupid reasons you have mentioned though, a_niwaz.
It was definitely stupid because you can see the whole intent of doing it in English was for international 'acclaim', propaganda and one-sided sympathy.
There is obviously truth to the story which makes the manipulative scenes powerful. However this is not a documentary! And if it was, it would be the most biased one in history!
Even from a movie point of view, all you people who loved it, take a step back and notice how 99% of Hindus protrayed in the movie have been shown as bad in some degree. From the neighbors to the police to the media. What a bunch of rubbish.
The only area where the movie strikes a chord is of the personal tragedy, loss and grief of losing a loved child. Other than that all the political manipulation around it was garbage. Acting wise, Shah and Sarika are always brilliant but the rest are all below par. Especially the American guy..was very so-so. And another stupidity was the unnecessary need to throw in the F word every now and for no reason whenever he talked..I mean please..
Why don't we make a movie on every Islamic terrorist incident in India in the last 50 years and show in great detail the gruesome scenes, dead bodies, personal loss and tragedy suffered by the victims? I tell you what, how about just the last 5 years? How many such movies could be made? How many individual stories of loss that Hindus have faced could be dramatically shown?
ALL THIS MOVIE DOES IS INCITE MORE HATRED.
Yes, that's right, incite more hatred. Supposedly the movie brings a message of peace but you have to be blind or a total retard not to notice that it's only intent is to flame anti-Hindu hatred. Instead of peace they want to create more problems.
There have been many better movies that tried to bring a message of communal peace..one I can think of right now is Ghulam-E-Mustapha..more recently Jodhaa-Akbar..heck even Amar Akbar Anthony...there are many more.
Acting 8/10
Movie 2/10
Overall 5/10
asbhatia, your ENTIRE post was nothing but an apology for the butchers of Gujrat - specifically the 'Hindutva' brigade led by Narendra Modi and his cohorts. I need to ask you a question before you start whining over claims of 'INCITING MORE HATRED' as you put it....
a) Was Narendra Modi - the man responsible for the atrocities - stripped of his powers due to his actions?
b) Did the people of 'peace loving' Hindus condemn Modi or did they unanimously vote him back into power?
c) It's pretty amusing that you use spurious examples of 'terrorism' to validate you points when it has been proven that mist of the so-called 'terrorist' act perpetrated on Indian soil have been the handiwork of Hindu fanatics who themselves were part of the same 'Hindutva' mob that masterminded the Gujrat atrocities. In short, I just blew away whatever credibility you had left ....
Don't whine about 'Anti-Hindu' propaganda when:
a) most of it is true and
b) You do NOTHING to correct the situation.
It's funny you should mention 'credibility'. How about opening ANY neutral newspapaer published around the world ON ANY GIVEN DAY for the last FIFTY YEARS and guaranteed you will find a report of some act of Islamic terrorism every single day
So what have YOU done to correct that situation?
Your points are so hilarious and riddled with bigotry, hatred and ignorance that it is not worthy of the time of a rat, let alone a proper response from me.
Take your crap elsewhere and I'm sure you will continue to support and fund terrorism.
The primary reason why this movie was shot in English was because the fanatic Muslim lobby in India, together with their anarcho-Communist allies, want to succesfully portray their hateful and bigoted images of "Infidels" in India to the western audience. Films like this have largely proved to be one of the most succesfull Islamic terrorist propaganda campaigns in history, far more so than the Saudi Wahhabists or the Palestinian terrorists, largely because it selectively portrays "non-white" Hindus are "filthy idolaters" and "innocent Muslims" (who commit 4 terrorist acts in India every year and kill 1000 people annually, and have been since the 1960s) as victims. It's a very American system of propaganda that has been touted by the Communists who made this film, by portraying the perpetrators as victims, never mind that the Muslims have been forcibly converting millions of Hindus to Islam, murdering Hindu women en masse, and raping "infidel" childres as the Koran commands them to, for decades without it being ever mentioned or discussed in the COmmunist controlled mass media in the country. As Noam Chomsky would put it, it is essentially "Manufacturing Consent".
Liberalism is dauntingly powerful. But the one force it does not have on its side is truth.
Well done! Spoken like a true COMMUNALIST. You must feel really proud of yourself.
And nice statistics on the killings and terrorism. You with the Terrorism Survey Board or something? And your facts....Man! You make me laugh!
The reason it was made in English is because the director wanted the film to have an international audience to it, the whole riot in Gujarat should just not be consigned within India but the entire world should know about it.
He wanted this to be an issue for the world not just Indians.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0109872/board/nest/54510162
International audience can also watch this in English subtitles. Many french, spanish, italian movies are watched with english subtitles. And they are happy to watch in english subs. They should have captured international audience in this way too.... whats th big deal in it?
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