How did this get such a high score?
While it is well made technically it is so silly it is laughable... Which I could understand if it was supposed to be an over the top comedy but it isn't.
sharethe same reason the ip man movies get a high rating. there's so many asians, and they all vote it up at once. same here. there's 1.38 billion indian people that can vote it up.
shareThis^
When I was first making my way through IMDb's Top 250, it never ceased to amaze me at how bad the Indian films were that were on there. 3 Idiots, Like Stars on Earth, and Dangal being the highest-rated ones. Each of these was massively corny, over-the-top, and predictably formulaic. Their quality is on par to a "very special episode" of an 80s sitcom (several even include a hacky freeze frame at the end, as if to emphasize this point). These films make the soap operas my grandma used to watch look like Schindler's List, yet they are (if anyone goes by IMDb) the best of what India has had to offer.
It's jaw-dropping that anyone could think these films would even surpass movies like The Mighty Ducks or The Other Sister in their quality, let alone classics like Casino, There Will Be Blood, Unforgiven, Yojimbo, Gone with the Wind, Fargo, and many others. But they rank higher than all of them. And India having a massive population of people where bad taste is apparently the norm is the only logical explanation that I can fathom that could explain it.
How comes that shitty and whiny Merican movies about the Vietnam War, celebrating so called "heros" losing against a 3rd world country get such high ratings?
Guess what? There are DIFFERENT cultures on this planet and your's isn't the dominating one...
How comes when someone criticizes the hammy and cheesy production and presentation of any "'Merican" movie or television series, where such hacky issues are present, these opinions aren't instantly dismissed as simply being a product of some sort of prejudice or bias? As implied in my previous post, I could make these same arguments about most soap operas and 80s sitcoms, and nearly everyone would agree that, yes, obviously the writing, performances, and filmmaking in these things are objectively formulaic, clearly corny, and laughably melodramatic (because they usually are). However, point this out about Bollywood films, which habitually embody all of these exact same elements (with the added bonus of people breaking out into song and dance, with on-the-nose lyrics every few minutes), then suddenly hackiness is magically not considered hacky anymore. It's "culture." lol Give me a break.
shareThese movies are made because they are successful in India. Because they meet the expectations there much better than Top Gun Maverick does . Unbelievable, isn't it?
shareYes... and? lol
As I stated, these films contain numerous elements that most would consider to be negatives when included in any other film/TV series (regardless of the country of origin). It's the stuff soap operas, sitcoms, and pornos are made of and made fun of over. There's no argument that people in India seem to enjoy this schlock in large numbers. That, however, doesn't result in it ceasing to be schlock.