Film Reviews on IndiaFM
The media manipulation with respect to movie reviews has already been well chronicled. It is a very well known fact that journalists covering movies are either in pro-director or anti-director groups. Consequently, you have well known reviewers like Roger Ebert giving thumbs up to movies which would not be worth even a first glance. These movies then go on to do a reasonable amount of business because people would think, "If Roger has endorsed it, we should go and check it out".
This trend is all the more amplified in Bollywood. "Journalists" like Taran Adarsh of IndiaFM fame routinely pan work other than that by either the Chopras or Karan Johar. Of course, any movie starring SRK gets the most favorable rating. While I doubt the real impact of his rating scale (after all, SRK has his die-hard fans, review or no review), it is his "negative shade" about other movies that makes people think and then Not see the movie. A case in point is the movie "Sehar", starring Arshad Warsi. I have not seen the movie myself, but the movie on first look is a decent attempt to portray crime as seen in UP and Bihar. It is a honest attempt to look at life other than Mumbai crime (glorified so much by RGV in his trio of Mumbai crime capers).
Check out IndiaFM's review on Sehar HERE. The review basically thrashes the movie and makes it sound as if it is the most worthless movie you have ever witnessed. I understand that every movie might have its drawbacks, but Rediff Movies has given a far more objective review of the movie HERE. The best review on Sehar is by Vulturo HERE and he basically eulogizes the movie and highly recommends it.
On the other hand, I had a chance to see a movie recommended by Taran, 7 1/2 Phere, starring Juhi Chawla and Irfan. Check out IndiaFM's review HERE and Rediff's review HERE. The movie is horrible, loud and grates forever. If the movie had not ended, I would have ripped the headphones apart !!!
It is clear that Taran Adarsh has an agenda here and for people who have been following his reviews religiously, I have just few words, Go and watch SEHAR.
This trend is all the more amplified in Bollywood. "Journalists" like Taran Adarsh of IndiaFM fame routinely pan work other than that by either the Chopras or Karan Johar. Of course, any movie starring SRK gets the most favorable rating. While I doubt the real impact of his rating scale (after all, SRK has his die-hard fans, review or no review), it is his "negative shade" about other movies that makes people think and then Not see the movie. A case in point is the movie "Sehar", starring Arshad Warsi. I have not seen the movie myself, but the movie on first look is a decent attempt to portray crime as seen in UP and Bihar. It is a honest attempt to look at life other than Mumbai crime (glorified so much by RGV in his trio of Mumbai crime capers).
Check out IndiaFM's review on Sehar HERE. The review basically thrashes the movie and makes it sound as if it is the most worthless movie you have ever witnessed. I understand that every movie might have its drawbacks, but Rediff Movies has given a far more objective review of the movie HERE. The best review on Sehar is by Vulturo HERE and he basically eulogizes the movie and highly recommends it.
On the other hand, I had a chance to see a movie recommended by Taran, 7 1/2 Phere, starring Juhi Chawla and Irfan. Check out IndiaFM's review HERE and Rediff's review HERE. The movie is horrible, loud and grates forever. If the movie had not ended, I would have ripped the headphones apart !!!
It is clear that Taran Adarsh has an agenda here and for people who have been following his reviews religiously, I have just few words, Go and watch SEHAR.
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Did you hear about Sony's settlement w ith filmgoers. Sony apparently quoted imaginary critics praising its movies, etc. So a couple of people said that the "praise" prompted them to spend money on bad movies.. yada yada yada.. . check out this report on that story:
http://www.forbes.com/infoimaging/feeds/infoimaging/2005/08/04/infoimagingcahners_2005_08_04_eng-cahners_dv_eng-cahners_dv_003045_1066375162917089332.html
Article on Sony
- hyperlink for those too lazy to ^c^v.
go fetch me a glass of water....
But it is high time that someone expose Taran Adarsh and Khalid Mohammed, stupid buggers writing ridiculous reviews. Thanks for the comments
btw, why do girls have fascination to leave their plastic covers on their laptops ???
I agree it is a matter of "taste", however, I believe strongly that the review of Sehar indicates that there is something else with IndiaFM. Someone pointed out to me that IndiaFM highly rated the music of Barsaat but it was extremely so-so.
I do think that if IndiaFM have some sort of commercial agreement with SRK or Karan Johar or anyone, they should carry a banner ad. eg, when AOL comments about Time magazine, they always have a disclaimer 'Time is owned by the AOL-Time Warner group'.