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@@vagabondsoul1286 Indians are not great at math. Americans are just used to highly educated immigrants who have to practice math a lot as a tool for immigration.
@@adityasharma2380 yes mostly, but the happy and the "art" cinema existed in parallel all throughout the time. Remember Smita Patil doing commercial movie and art movie at the same time, and actors like Naseeruddin, Smita Patil, Shabana Azmi, Farookh Shaikh, being asked why continue with sad cinema or non-earning movies while the art movies then were competing alongside with the commercial cinema space. And art cinema merged with commercial in the sense that it started bringing audience since 2007/08 with Vinay Pathak at the helm with Bheja Fry, Dasvidanya etc., and with movies like Paan Singh Tomar, Gangs Of Wasseypur, Vickky Donor, Andhadhun, and the cinema began taking turn with content on Channel V, Bindas taking turns with making the younger audience more adaptive, hence giving room for the newer audience to flock to cinema for Ayushmann or Rajkumar, Irrfan Khan, Naseeruddin etc.
@@adityasharma2380 That trend ended in the 80's. He is not completely wrong but he is talking about as if India is still in 70's. India's tier-1 cities are pretty much on par with Western cities and their facilities these days.
Akaash has some of the worst, non nuanced takes on Indian matters. Just cause he's ethnically Indian it seems like he gets a weighted say on these matters but he's no different from an American who has a warped view of other countries. He's a good comedian, but some research might help him a lot before just assuming authority on all matters Indian.
You are 100% right, Sometimes these so called American Indians probably havent visited India but just say same shit that their parents or grand parents told them.
even research won't help, one who has experienced and lived in them societies and environment will give a more accurate and funny spin on things. You're right his pov is no different than of an american born and brought up in US. But he should give that disclaimer before giving his opinions otherwise people will take his pov to be true cuz of his ethinic association with India.
@@lisasyadom23 are you dumb he is not speaking.. he is asking something he doesn't know.. do you even know what a question is? It's something you ask that u don't have answers to.idk why u getting mad at it lol😂
@@shreythakur9079 Dilip Kumar was called tragedy king. Guru Dutt another one. And then there's parallel cinema movement that started in the 50s with Satyajit Ray's arrival and continued till the 90s, pretty harsh portrayal of life there.
We do have satire. It’s the most important part of Marathi literature. Even before independence, before Gandhi, satire was used for political messaging.
All they know about Indian cinema or India in general is through their media which is extremely biased so even Indians in US,UK etc have stereotypical views about India.
he's actually just lived in India in the 2000s and just visits time to time, so for sure isn't that aware of current social condition that well. he seeing india in lens of a foreigner with peaked interest cause that's his homeland? It's really just that his source now would be just western media not wrong on his part but always he should stop acting like he's some well versed insider or knowledgeable cause he's very outta touch.
Please tell me what are the other “realistic” content that Americans can access. I hope you know we can’t access certain streaming services you have in india
@@r.c.7779 u can vpns exist and even inspite that u can its available, it's just a ton more effort than just checking out American Netflix's bollywood section and enjoying it which isn't wrong either. Just don't act like u understand the social intricacies of India its cultures and even its media when u don't actually do firsthand.
Indian Americans always sound like the last Indian movie they watched was a Bollywood movie from late 90's early 2000's and then they say it's the same in 2022
This conversation is for people who live in nutshells.Comfortable in there couch and relaxing not having the knowledge of hardship and suffering their lives.thank you🤣😂
@@scientia.veritas not just bollywood but the Telugu and Tamil cinema too. I didn't realise it, but all these industries run on the same ideas of getting their family employed.
u dont know anything about our movie history, our great director Satyajit Ray from 50s inspired so many of ur directors like martin scorsese, and there always has been realistic cinema and realistic topic movies since late 40s till now, go watch the works of Shyam Benegal, Ritwik Ghatak, Mrinal Sen, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Bimal Roy, Guru Dutt, Anurag Kashyap, Vikramaditya Motwane, Anand Gandhi, Dibakar Banerjee, lijo jose pellisary, Dileesh Pothan, Thiagarajan Kumararaja, Madhu C. Narayanan and many many many more
If you were smart enough you would realize Satyajit Ray, Riwik Ghatak, Meinal Sen and some other names you have copied from wikipedia do not come under the fold of ‘Bollywood’ (which Akaash was talking about). They were mostly film makers in regional languages. And how many of their movies were the biggest grossers of the year? Learn the skill of comprehension before wasting your time typing irrelevant stuff.
@@dunno23 u should learn to read between the lines, these people just using the word bollywood but they subliminally means all indian cinema, also u should also learn to do something productive rather than just looking of comment sections of specific videos every few hours and try to prove how smart you are but unnecessarily disagreeing with people on small things
@@user-hq8wm8giyujcg There is not much to read between the lines. He literally said ‘Bollywood’. You are the one trying to disagree to him unnecessarily
@@dunno23 Learn to understand context. Bollywood is an umbrella term for Indian movies, just like Indians use Hollywood as an umbrella term for all English movies, even if they were from UK or Australia.
@@scientia.veritas Buddy, you seem to be a little slow, so let me put it out for you. There’s difference between context and ‘assumption’ (what you seem to be doing here). Going by the way your thick brain apparently defines ‘context’ I could ‘contextualise’ your comment as coming from a bunch of losers who have massive massive inferiority complex (as an individual and as a nation), who can’t handle the truth that shitty Bollywood movies that they used to watch growing up are actually shitty. They will try to defend their darling bollywood against any valid factual claims, only because they have intellectual capacity and emotional fragility of 4 year old kid.
The advent of gritty story driven cinema in India was not initiated by Netflix. It was happening before that. There is strong independant cinema in India, reflected in the rise of actors like Rajkummar Rao and Ayushman Khurana
Nobody claimed gritty story driven cinema in India was initiated by Netflix. Buddy, you gotta train your brain to properly comprehend the stuff you are trying to watch. Trying to counter a false argument manufactured by your own tiny brain isn’t the best idea.
@@reason4fairness like kabir shigh and jesrsy, who's greedy south Indian director made the same movie for both region or remake them. So not only Bollywood is remaking them
We too had a historic gritty cinema until 80's , after that a lot of Indians became successful abroad, and then the Bollywood went after Dollars! That's when Indian cinema became purely escapist.
Absolutely. "I can only think of one or two movies where the main actor died." I guess he's never seen an Amitabh Bachchan movie; who only happens to be the biggest Indian actor of all time!
I think it's high time Americans realise that NRI Indians who are like second or third generation and have lived most of their life in the US and maybe visited India once 7 years ago where they literally stayed for a couple of months in a singular city or state have as much idea of what India is right now as most Americans do. I am an NRI albeit got an opportunity to visit India every alternative year cus I was in the Middle East and with each new visit, I saw an entirely different nation. India's been growing significantly in the last 10 years, so much so that everything from entertainment to the middle class to consumerism is not the same as it was even a decade ago. Disney, Netflix, Amazon are all playing huge bets on the country and it's 1.4 Bn people who watch content in more languages than what Europe speaks. At this point, it's a cross between 100s of cultures that we see on Web content. It's more dynamic and exciting than unfortunately anything any other country can claim to have. We are like a golden warchest of content.
@@kaustubhraizada Am i supposed to be offende? Bruh 🤣🤣🤣🤣. Did you just assume that i am from Pakistan???. 🤣 Dude, people like you are what's bad about our country. Pathetic.
telugu industry has overtaken bollywood in the last there years akash . telugu industry is the highest grossing movie industry in india for the last 3 years .now it has one of the most popular non english movies in recent times in RRR
RRR was an over the top entertainment spectacle . Kinda similar to what Bollywood is known for . Not gonna win any awards but entertaining to the masses
So I know bahubali 1 and 2, kgf 1 and 2, pushpa 1 and 2nd upcoming, rrr. This trend started since 2015 and its not even every year. So I don't get your statement when you say stuff south movies are bigger when before bahubali nobody was really paying attention globally or even pan-india wise what south movies are coming out. Even post bahubali there has been a few pan india movies that flopped badly. Point is today industry doesn't matter, content does. That is why despite of having big stars regardless of where the movie is from, it can flop. Also bollywood had a couple of bad years due to controversies and bad content movies but still today bollywood is giving big hits. I watch movies from all 3 major movie industries and content wise I like Tamil and hindi and for masala movies i like telugu.
Alot of old Indian movies dealt with heavy topics. Most. It wasn't what the movie was about perse, you didn't go into the movie saying well this is about forced marriage or political corruption but the themes were always prevalent.
According to the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations, approximately 80% of all flowering plants are specialised for pollination by animals, mostly insects (which includes bees). Pollination is crucial because many of our vegetables, fruits and the crops that feed our livestock rely on it to be fertilised, so without it, we could go hungry. Vegetables such as broccoli, asparagus and cucumber rely on the pollination of bees, as do apricots, strawberries, apples, tomatoes and almonds.
Akaash what are you talking about ? Clearly your family didn't have pets but don't put everyone in your category. You stuck in some twirpy bubble of make belief. Shame on you for projecting India in such poor taste. We maybe a 3rd world country but there is a large part of the population that absolutely feeds the stray animals. And WE DO HAVE PETS. 😂😂😂😂 Akaash wtf up.
India mentioned on a RU-vid video? Here comes the Indians wanting validation from other groups of people commenting on this video, Andrew might as well do reaction channels to grift 😂
0:57 to answer marks question maybe not currently but in the past we had a white guy who spoke perfect Hindi and used to work in bolly movies regularly and he is pretty well respected in the theatre scene
Yeah, but he still almost always played the side-character of a white guy who was mostly evil. Despite the fact that Tom Alter was such an amazing actor, he never got his due just cos he was stereotyped.
@@scientia.veritas because the cinema wasn't developed then for legends like Tom Alter, or Bob Christo, and Gavin Pakard. Loved seeing them on cinema. However they have passed since. Now directors have a better take on cinema and can/could have employed them on screen in a more natural way.
actually no. Bollywood hasn't been profitable for a while now. the most profitable movie industry in India is the Telugu movie industry. its not Bollywood.
Looking at this comment section is just depressing. His takes although based on generalizations are true. We indians cant hear any criticism about india and get pseudo patriotic when any indian/ indian origin/ foreign person says something remotely negative/critical about india.
@Neil Bajwa yeah dogs aren't clean, from personal experience I agree tbh, every dog I've ever been inside the house with stunk like ass NGL. Also Muslims are allowed to have service dogs ie (shepherd dogs, hunter dogs, protection dogs) but they aren't allowed in the house
@@dawwww no, that's a ruling specific to utensils. If a dog eats out of a bowl and its saliva touches the bowl then it must be cleaned before being used again
The reason Bollywood made rich people movies is because they were made by rich people. That was their world. They didnt know what else to make. What poverty and struggle movie would Karan Johar make?
Dude....is Aakash living in the 90s.....a man earning 30lakhs in India can live a better life than an American earning 100k in USA....and thats half of the Indians in IT industry.......we dont need your party culture to be happy...stop putting Yourself as living the best life....everyone has there own definition of best life...he is Indian but he doesnt knows India.
I don’t think Akash has seen enough Indian movies. There were many dark and gritty movies even before Netflix was a thing. Off the top of my head I can think of Lajja and Ek Hasina Thi off the top of my head. Of course the fluffy larger than life films are also a big part of Bollywood.
Muslims not having dogs especially black dog os a religious thing. Also, akash seems to have idea of 10 year ago bollywood. They started making better movies 10 years ago and now they're back yo making shitty content. You all should Watch gangs of wasseypur 1 & 2.
The sad thing, he is gonna dismiss being called out as "hate comments" or "Indians being sensitive" but would never accept that most things coming out of his mouth are the farthest away from truth. So much that he sounds an internet troll as compared to all the people commenting. It is not even a battle of opinions. Things being said are just plain untrue.
Bollywood is not just indian cinemas. India has way more movie industries. Realistic movies have always been a part of movies but not all audiences would want it. But when you come to south especially kerala and Tamil nadu, audiences dont consider watching these Bollywood style movies, they watch more of realistic movies with proper physics. And that why most of the producers make realistic movies in the south.
he's actually just lived in India in the 2000s and just visits time to time, so for sure isn't that aware of current social condition that well. he seeing india in lens of a foreigner with peaked interest cause that's his homeland? It's really just that his source now would be just western media not wrong on his part but atleast he should stop acting like he's some well versed insider or knowledgeable cause he's very outta touch really.
Bollywood is filled with nepotism and remakes. It’s been a very long time since they have not copied another movie that did well in India. Now that streaming is such a huge thing, the North Indian people are watching a lot of South Indian movies that have very different story lines and they are also getting tired of remakes and same storylines from Bollywood. Because of that bollywood is trying to change. Before they did not have to because streaming other culture’s content was not a thing but now all different type of movies in different cultures are only a click away.
So much wrong thing. Tell me you have just watched Karan Johar's movie and considered it as only Bollywood movies. There are tons of different stories and tons of amazing actors. Just because people didn't watch doesn't mean that Bollywood has produced trash. I accept in last 3-4 years, they went insane (specially main actors are doing remakes) still before those 2-3 years Bollywood has done better than any other indian film industry. And fyi considering those 2-3 years they have still done way better than any other film industry in india. I acknowledge the problem of nepotism... But it is in south too. Your dp name 'saaho' was a trash movie too.+ Radeshyam+ recent movies like beast was also critically worst movies. Still see their earnings... It's just people are running after mass movies. Rocketry movie went flop in collection. Why? It was well promoted, good movie, good actor, good story. All good. Still didn't run. And south has many actors who are actually nepo kids like Mahesh babu,Rana, allu arjun, prabhas all are nepotism product. Mahesh Babu, Vijay devarkonda isn't a good actor, just his looks. And mostly south movies which are dubbed in Hindi are mass action movies. People are just watching those kind of movies. And some movies have been remade in south too like 3 idiots, andhadhun. The thing is just people are hating way more to Bollywood. Fyi, the movies which are remade in hindi are produced by south directors or producers to earn more money from Hindi audience. Actually they are bigger culprit than those actors who play characters for money. And in Hindi cinema even Akshay Kumar or ayushman khurana has got more variety than south movies.
There was an American- Indian ( white guy) actor called Tom Alter . He acted in many Bollywood films and was very popular. He received highest government honour too. His son is also an actor now 😊 His American parents went to India as Christian missionaries and settled there. Also Akaash’s version of India is so funny and outdated . India is a huge populations/classes , which watch all types of films
What India are they talking about? No pets, no gritty content in India, life too bad etc.I think I grew up in very different India. Since my birth I have seen pet dogs in almost every family in villages of northern India, even those who aren’t rich and they love them like family. It requires heart to feed an animal even whne you aren’t that rich and we always had it. Ignorant rant these people.
This is what happens when brown people end up in countries like the US, they start thinking like a racist white guy. Bollywood escapism has nothing to do with poverty. India is the 5th largest economy in the world, if we want shit we can get it. India also yields a lot of power in the global community. So this whole third world argument is 3 decades old. Fact is people are fed up with bollywood, that is it, there is nothing more to it. South indian films are doing 100x better now, cause they offer something different and close to reality. Same goes for the TV shows which revolve around small indian cities. People like Akash are just elite white folks with a brown skin, probably were subject to extreme bullying and racism which is why they constantly have to find the need to shit on India to show how different they are from Indians in India. Actually I love the fact that these people view us this way, cause we are rising quietly, suits us well, just like what China did, quietly grew for 4 decades and now look at them.
See that's the problem when NRI talks about India, he don't know shit about what's happening in India. Bollywood died few years ago, now tollywood is ruling the industry. And it's wrong observation about poverty and movies 😂😂.
Akashi’s views on India is soo out of touch😂. Seems like he only believes in stories that his parents told about when they were immigrating from some small village. Literally Bollywood is making least profits now days because yes the nepotism but also lack of creativity and good content due to how bad the inner working of the industry is. Ayushmann Khurrana and actors like him brought a whole new wave with inland raw stories. It is not ‘nowadays’ but well over five years atleast.
One of the most idiotic takes on india .Get a reality check most of the rural india pepole have pets and its very common in urban setting to have pet . It has nothing to do with you being rich or poor.
Hindi movies(Bollywood)- glitter , Telugu and Kanada movies(Tollywood)- Hero/lead actor hyped(like demi god), Malayalam movies -creativity, Tamil movies - Raw and gritty... This might best describe about Indian movie industry... You guys aren't properly introduced to Indian Film industry and the White ass Akaash have no idea and is stuck in 90'e.. Start watching RRR(202) movie✌️
I know prominent Bollywood actors have denied any form of nepotism in their industry. Why would they admit to something they are benefitting from? What astounds me is that there are regular Indians based off these comments that think nepotism is cap in Bollywood. Just look at all the films Bollywood produced in the last 5 years. If you pulled out all the leading cast members, you would notice more than 80% of them are descendants from actors, relatives or part of extended families. Go back half a century, you will still see the same thing.
For those of you who keep complaining about the whole Akaash/chair issue, please allow me to explain. “Akaash” comes from the Sanskrit word “Akasha” meaning “ether” or “sky”, referring to the ethereal realm where Akaash’s chair exists. Akaash is also nearly homophonic with “a couch.” Folks, this was ordained a long time ago by forces far more powerful than us - accept it and move on!
It is funny how americans react to indian movies like: oh thats impossible, they far from logic or reality. It is easy to play. Bruh, you really think avengers are close to logic?😅🤣
For Muslims there's a saying that cleanliness is paramount to half of your deen. Dogs are inherently unclean creatures, even if you train a dog it still has shit munching urges and humping urges and they're also known to eat and ,rarely, also try to rape kids(google the cases). Cats are supposedly more our speed. They're clean, great protective instincts of kids and they will love you in a less in your face way. And this is coming from someone who's family owned pet dogs and loved them growing up.
First of all Bollywood is what Hallmark movies plus Action blockbuster Hollywood movies to India there are other regional industry which excels at making movies South industry for example they have been putting out quality movies since the 80s (think of the indie movie scene in US but not just art films all kinds of films) lately there’s a huge popularity rise in South Indian movies thanks to pan India release in multiple languages.
I think he's right. To ppl for whom reality sucks, blowing cars and emotion-filled events feels like escaping the dud life. Not every movie has to be a nuanced brainf**k.
“Bollywood is all Escapism” like movies like ‘Pather Panchali’ & ‘Aparjito’ didn’t came out in the 50s this guy Akash should be banned from talking about Indian movies in this podcast.
Sorry Akash, your idea about Bollywood is compressed to a stereotypical notion of most non-Indians. Bollywood has made movies on topics like 1.Stockholm Syndrome 2. Erectile dysfunction 3. IVF 4. Dyslexia 5. Sanitary napkins 6. The horrific 26/11 terrorist attack on Taj 7. The impact of 9/11 on a Muslim guy, and what not. Some of the finest movies are- 1. Andhadhun 2. Raazi 3. Uri 4. Sher Shah 5. Ludo 6. Barfi 7. Piku 8. Pink 9. Taare Zameen par ...and the list goes on.
This is such a demented discussion. "People start to feel things as they pull out of destitute poverty." Also, really dislike what nris portray to all others with their half baked knowledge. Oreos and yet they pretend like they know everything.
Not "Oreos" but "coconut" I believe is the more appropriate term. Also, what according to you is the correct portrayal of India? Assuming you are from India?
@@Shankar-Bhaskar It is true that cinema is an escapism, but it has little to do with poverty. In the 50s and 60s, when India was in destitute poverty, cinema was still grounded and dealt with social issues. Saying Bollywood is mostly nepotism is like saying healthcare is mostly nepotism, cos almost all doctors have a parent or a relative who was also a doctor. Yes there are star kids, but there are plenty of non-Bollywood background actors too. The former finds it easier to get a platform, but it's not a "chokehold". The rising demand for gritty cinema is due to the exposure to global content, not economic status.
@@scientia.veritas Not true, almost all non Bollywood actors had to start work with production houses that are run by Bollywood families. Srk, probably the most successful non Bollywood actor, too had to work with Yashraj films first to make a name for himself. Granted he started off in offbeat films and a television career in Delhi, but he really had to ingratiate himself with Bollywood families by befriending (a$$kissing?) them before truly becoming successful in Bollywood.
@@Shankar-Bhaskar what do you mean "production houses run by Bollywood families"? Production houses are businesses. And like most businesses, they are passed down in the families. Any production house today, if it exists 20 years from now, would be run by the owner's family. You make it sound like a bad thing. Production houses are expensive. A guy doesn't just walk in and create a production house. It takes years and years, and hence most are run by families.
@@scientia.veritas "Like most businesses, they are passed down in the families" Thanks for making my point clear about nepotism. That is the exact definition of nepotism. Most businesses, to the best of my knowledge, ethically speaking, are not supposed to be passed down in the families. This is the problem in India, not just in businesses such as Bollywood but also politics, I think it's an Asian cultural thing.
His observation on poverty is pure bs.India just over came Nigeria to become the country with most poor people and this only asserts the fact that the country is still very very POOR and under developed.
Akash seems like he is stuck in the past because the content from the indian film industry has taken a massive turn in last couple of years, specially with OTT platforms. A lot of realistic cinema and series all with fresh faces. Infact today the sureshot way of making sure your movie flops is casting all nepo kids in it. Ofcourse there are exceptions like nepo kids who actually can act like Alia Bhatt.
Amount of animal on which rural India relies is very high... Having animals like cows, buffalo, dogs, cats, hens, goat is very common... And each one have there own significance. And most of the time people who does not have a pet also take care of there locality stray dogs and stray cows. In many households there are traditions to take out portions out of your own food for cows and dogs... And yes people get sad when there animals or pets dies of old age or some other causes...
