i love hindi movies.. i cant get enough of them. i especially love yaj rash films. their the best!

With all those dancing!

I like those dance,Bollywood produces more film than Hollywood!

i'm just curious, but what does the dancing and singing signifies in the movie?

i really dont know what they signify, but there good songs.. so iono.. i like the songs and the videos... especially chalte chalte and kuch kuch hota hai and mujhse dosti karoge.. these are my 3 favorite movies.
devdas is ok.

hmm i watched that chalte chalte movie....that was my first indian movie that i've ever seen...

and i was like

so happy and cheery..

not my type of movie...

but overall it was ok...but i wouldn't want to watch it again...too much singing and dancing....

lol!
i cant stand those movies
too much singing throughtout the movie...
everyvbody n my family likes it cept me

One of the best movies I saw in 2003 (and I saw a whooping lot of them) was "Teen Deewarein (Three Walls)". Surprisingly enough, no singing in this Indian movie. It was a big hit in India as well. Definitely worth checking out. I thought it was the best Indian movies of half a dozen I saw that year.

I watched a lot of Hindi films when I was a teenager because of the glamorous costumes, the songs gave us a good reason to take a break and talk about what we'd seen because I don't understand Hindi and the good thing about that is that I didn't understand some of the stupid lines that made my Indian friends roll eyes and curl toes.

We actually once tortured a whole bus full of other students from our high school with the music from Anjaam and Baazigar

Bollywood actresses are drop dead gorgeous

I've always liked Mira Nair's movies, such as Monsoon Wedding, Mississippi Masala, Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love and Salaam Bombay. A few more of my favorites would be Bend it Like Beckham, The Guru and Guru Dutt's amazing masterpiece Pyaasa. I've not had a chance to see her movies just yet but I've heard alot of good things about Deepa Mehta's Fire, Earth and Water. I'm always on the lookout for other Indian movies if anyone has suggestions for what to see.

I love to watch hindi movies. One of my favorite movie is Dil Se. Others I like include, Dil Hai Tumhara, Dil To Pagal Hai, Mohabbatein, K3G, KKHH, Pardes, and many more.

Chalte Chalte yunhi ruk jaata hoon main,
Baithe baithe kahin kho jaata hoon main,
Kahte Kahte hi chup ho jaata hoon main.
Kya yahi pyar hai, kya yahi pyar hai
Haan yahi pyar hai, haan yahi pyar hai

i love to watch indian movies, i just like to watch the dancing part and there outfit are so pretty.

Tamil films (still indian) are better than Hindi films. Heh says my tamil wife and all her tamil relatives.

It is true that a bunch of Bollywood actress are trying to get into their flicks.


And there isn't a indian film that has never had a song in it. And quite a few have action fight scenes too.

im watching an indian movie right now called "earth" ... well im not really watching it srorta listening cuz im writing on this laptop. at first the language sorta seemed to make me think of kapampangan.

I know this movie is old. It is really great and I highly recommended everone around the world should watch it. The movie title was Mother India.

i know of this other indian movie that plays on sundance or something, and its about 2 oppressed indian women who fall in love with each other and become lesbians or something.... i believe it's called "fire." do many indian movies have similar one word titles?

and what is the meaning behind the word "Bollywood"

I think I've seen some Indian Movies. I'm not totally sure if it was Indian or not. But it did seem so though. But overall, the movies were good.

indian people are known to be emotionals & thats one of the reason u see so many songs in a movie, because that best describes a feeling or thought.

Oh, throw pride to the wind, I'll say this: I am prone to cry whenever I see the sad scenes in Hindi movies. They really do tug at the heart strings, don't they? And I am such a sucker for them time and time again! The worst is whenever the the son-gone-bad returns to the village to seek forgiveness at the mom's deathbed. I can it coming a miiillee away, and still it gets me every time. Every time.

Gah, i just haaaaate indian movies .. i hate that dancing and i hate those english accent b movies. one movie my parents saw was an copy of an scream film. His friend saw him lying there and about to die and he came in screaming his name "BOB, Krisha!, BOB Krisha!, BOB, KRISHA!" like i counted 4-5 times .. enough with most of those B movies. . but i have to admit bollywood have made hits ... but can't they skipp the dance part .. it's like only extender because indian people's live is all about watching movies, so the movie end up being like 2-3 or sometimes 4 hours long and part of 50 minuits is like dancing and music from the actors unknown cd .. like comercial hidden in the movie ..

bobby (sp?) was good

I happen to like the dance and song sequences in Indian films...there was one in Dil Se atop a moving train that was absolutely amazing to look at.

Are songs appropriate?

It depends on the movie in my opinion. If it's a typical lighthearted masala movie then songs are fine. But i hate it when they make good movies with strong storylines and then put in songs to ruin the flow. That irks me!

i luv them too

My mom is a very big fan of India movies!

Some of the older films are really nice too. I like Caravan and Raja Hindustani. They are kind of cheesy but nice too. One of the all time popular hits is Sholay but it is a bit too bloody for me. I prefer the old black and white films though for some people they might be a bit heavy.
if you like films with substance you might check out Astitva with Tabu. She is a really great actress and comes across as both beautiful and intelligent.

TaTa

like whoa. the song and dance movement is awesome. love it.

You guys are really weird... watching movies that you can't even understand. Wow, even I have not seen all those movies you are talking about.

Hi Cyanor,

you would be surprised at how many people watch Indian movies that are not Indian! You know alot of movies distributed in other countries have subtitles common to the country it is disributed in. I knew three Russian girls once who had no ties to India at all and just liked all the singing and dancing. Bollywood is really spreading. Movies like Bend it Like Beckham and the Guru are in English and have really been a mainstream hit in the USA among white Americans and other ethnicities. I think it is great that other ethnicities like to watch Indian movies because it helps to bridge a gap between cultures. Cheers!

Hi, are you guys are indians and desi's or you guys are asians? cuz i didn't know indian movies are watched elsewhere besides desi community?

care to enlighten an indian?

Hi kkdkckrl,

I am pretty sure that most of the people here are Asian or of Asian descent. There are only a few Indians. I think mostly people come here to find out about Indian culture.

To answer your question, it is true that Indian movies are watched by different communities and nationalities around the globe. They are really catching on in the USA and Britian these days and in many Asian countries they are very popular as well. Hope that answered your question!

indians make movies more than anybody else, second only is the pi. bet most movies are not that good quality because they made too fast?

yes indian movie is awesome.

Well in the past 2 to 3 years the quality has improved dramatically. I would expect that in 5 years, hindi movies will be as well produced as the hollywood movies. You have to remember that indian movies consist of various languages. A movie of one language isn't watched by the others.

well i know that but since most of the indian movies are in hindi i just said indian. my friend from nepal watch indian movies all the time.

well, there's are also indian movie that are dubbed in other language!!!! so i watch them and buy them, but sometime i download them online with english subtitles.... i just like the singing and dancing part and the girls....oh yeah, sometime the storyline are good too.

Personally I don't think the Indian movies are that graet but Indian MUSIC completly kicks @$$!!!!
I heard some translated into Chinese and sound really great even if they are in Indian and I can't understand I still love how it sounds.

I watch Indian movies for all the wrong reasons....

Some of these Bollywood actors like Akshay Kumar are absolute hunks!!!!
And unlike these prudish American star, Bollywood men have no reservation appearing in speedos or be seen scantily claded!! And they look good in them!

Unfortuntely, I haven't seen too many Indian men here in NY that resemble these Bollywood guys....sigh....

HELLO. I am new.
Haha, this topic is funny.
I watch Hindi movies, right, and some of them are good. Others, of course, like everywhere else, just plain suck @$$. But the songs and dance sequences, while expertly choregraphed, totally just piss me of. Gah. It really takes too much out of the plot. Also, almost every single hindi movie ever produced in the history of history has been a type of love story. WHY? WHY? WHY?
Bah, there are my two cents.

Im not Indian Im Asian. Like I said my mom luvs indian movies cuz they are nothing likes shes ever seen. Likewise in my opinion. I luv watching indian movies even though i cant understand but the visuals are great. And some of them Indian actors are freakin FINE

Did someone say Mother India? I always almost cry when
Birju asks his mother if she will starve too, with the vessel scene

But Dora honey, Mujse Dosti Karogi? That was such crap! I destroyed
that dvd

I can understand why people hate the singing and dancing. I mean once there
was this song and they sang: "Oh even with you having a simple coffee is fun" Wtf

lol how cute

Pervertburger

Hiya Dreamz didnt see your question there. Its always about love, cuz love sells
If you would have a formula which ALWAYS works, then would you change it?

Unlike PI movies, Indian movies are auctually worth watching. I couldnt stand the thought of watching some midget, big wide flat nosed filipinos running around shooting at each other or making love.

Me too.

Bollywood movies are great because of:

*emotions (even in an action movie or a social-issues movie)
*"duty, honor, and sacrifice" -- "Asian values"-type dilemmas
*song and dance
*cute actors


Take any one of these elements away, and the rest is less compelling in my opinion.

Also, notice I didn't say "love" ... There are more emotions than just love, and I think it's really a myth that almost every Bollywood movie is a love story. It's the case that many of the most *popular* movies (particularly in recent times) are love stories, though.

Hehe GaleHarold, yay, another Akshay Kumar fan!