Bollywood Phillums

If the quality of Bollywood movies hitting the screens all over India these days isn't reason enough to feel disillusioned, the kind of bloopers they are full of, which are conveniently overlooked, are enough to make you pull your hair out in frustration. If scantily-dressed women dancing on snow-clad mountain tops and Sunny Deol fighting the entire Pakistani army one-handedly in Gadar aren't unrealistic enough, the sheer absent-mindedness of the people behind these movies is …

…stronger issues, which is probably why it was nominated for an Oscar in the best foreign film category, and missed the award only by a narrow margin. 'Company' is an excellent piece of work by RamGopal Varma and comes as a relief when it was beginning to seem like there was a serious scarcity of movies with substance. It is movies such as these, which will encourage filmmakers to venture into new forms of cinema.