So how do Indian viewers see Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s experiment of Grindhouse which has two films viz. Deathproof and Planter Terror? For those Indian viewers who are not exactly aware about the Hollywood film genres and traditions, both the films are just popcorn movies.
Indian popular movies are still struggling to show in an interesting and authentic manner the gory side of the violence. There are hardly any Indian popular movies, which actually celebrate and explore the violence on screen. Recently, ‘Not a Love Story’ a film by Ram Gopal Verma had attempted to portray the gory side of human violence on screen but the whole venture was more about exploring the authentic side of emotions behind the violence. At least I don’t remember any popular Indian movie, which uninhibitedly depicts the violence on screen.
Indian viewers are really deprived of the pleasure of watching the representation of their own wilder, gory and primitive violent instincts on screen…and all Hollywood gory movies do quench that thirst. There are millions of Indian viewers of all age group, according to whom more the gory presentation, more the film is enjoyable. In this context for those violence-crazy Indian viewers Grindhouse is not one of the Hollywood B movies but the model of how the Indian movies should be.
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