Screw Richard Corliss, here comes the definitive Top 10 list of Indian movies. From India’s showman-entertainer-extraordinaire-moghul-saamrat, Subhash Ghai. Richard was a Dick for picking out just three Indian movies, and two of them in languages other than Hindi. Travesty! Ghai on the other hand does the right thing and picks Ten Hindi movies to figure in his Top Ten Indian movies list. Exactly the kind of narrowing it down approach that was sorely missing from the TIME list. And while Ghai could’ve easily put in atleast 8 of his movies in the list, and I mean very easily, he sets aside any kind of megalomania to only include his best of the best – Taal (Raga of Love, 3 hours of it). Aw! shucks…why did he have to do this now? Now I HAVE to get off work early today to watch Taal for the 63rd time. Curled up on the couch, sipping from my cup of Tazo Chai. Bliss!
Update: Vipul Shah, director of Aankhen & Waqt, comes up with his list of Top 10 Indian movies. I could’ve made a separate post for his choices too…if I knew who he was. To his credit, neither of his movies are featured on the list and he thought of Pather Panchali as an Indian movie.
what? no raj kapoor? at a minimum, i demand that ‘mera naam joker’ and ‘sangam’ be included!!! ‘dosti’ and ‘kaagaz ke phool’: get out of there!
and oh yes, i would put in ddlj instead of kkhh and that reminds me that i need to curl up and watch ddlj for the 64th time ;-).
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I don’t know about Taal, but I bet there are some who’ve actually watched DDLJ that many times. I don’t blame him for not including any RK Films classics. A little showman envy is understandable. :)
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