Golden Era of Hindi Cinema Posted by Nitin Kumar on Sep 17, 2012 in Hindi Language
I am not a critique but I am very much annoyed in which Hindi cinema is swayed by current movie makers.
Modern Hindi movies are plagued with “item number” culture where a scantily clad woman shown dancing with some drunken men. Hindi movies are getting more and more gruesome as well as pathetically boring (उबाऊ – Ubaau) with the same theme of a love story. Many movie makers seems to introduce all possible elements of various genre irrespective of the story (कहानी – Kahaani) line just for the sake of commercial success. At present, thousands of Hindi movies are produced every year but only few of them depict the reality (वास्तविकता – Vaastavikata) of Indian society. Those movies, of course, don’t seem to satisfy the desire of Indian populace and usually fail. In my opinion, the movies should show the actual picture of a society rather than a society (समाज – Samaj) copy the culture shown in the movies.
Indian cinema was not always (सदैव – Sadaev) like this, there was an era in Indian cinema which is known for its highly acclaimed movies. This era was from 1940s to 1960s. During this time, some of the finest Hindi movies were ever produced. Those movies are known for the ingenious imagination (कल्पना – Kalpana) of the movie makers which has portrayed the reality of Indian society of that time. On contrary, modern Hindi movies are very much westernized (पाश्चात्य – Paashchaaty).
If you ever happen to have an opportunity (अवसर – Avasar) to get old Hindi movies, I would like to suggest some of the finest movies from that golden era of Hindi cinema. Some of the movies are,
1. प्यासा – Pyaasa (1957)
2. काग़ज़ के फूल – Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959)
3. आवारा – Awaara (1951)
4. श्री ४२० – Shree 420 (1955)
5. मदर इंडिया – Mother India (1957)
6. मुगल – ए – आजम – Mughal-e-Azam (1960)
7. मधुमति – Madhumati (1958)
To name a few, some of the famous directors from that era were Guru Dutt, Raj Kapoor and Bimal Roy.
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About the Author: Nitin Kumar
Nitin Kumar is a native Hindi speaker from New Delhi, India. His education qualification include Masters in Robotics and Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering. Currently, he is working in the Research and Development in Robotics in Germany. He is avid language learner with varied level of proficiency in English, German, Spanish, and Japanese. He wish to learn French one day. His passion for languages motivated him to share his mother tongue, Hindi, and culture and traditions associated with its speakers. He has been working with Transparent Language since 2010 and has written over 430 blogs on various topics on Hindi language and India, its culture and traditions. He is also the Administrator for Hindi Facebook page which has a community of over 330,000 members.
Comments:
Pankaj Sharma:
I respect your thought but there as time goes on the thought and ideas they change a lot so I think we should update ourselfs.
Ravi Kumar:
Evolution took place, fair enough
archita rai:
apart from commercial movie there are lot of parallel movie also which has given Bollywood a new dimension
Reyansh:
day by day more new trends will be introduced
Rishi raj Saha:
you should go with the time
Aryaan:
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Agnitra:
I agree with you Nitin Ji
Cultural Entertainment at City Pulse:
Hindi movies are the hot favorites of all the people. That was the great time of Black and White hindi movies!
Kamini Dey:
I agree to your thoughts about the changing trends and art of film making in Bollywood.The movies during 50’s to 60’s were something which were much original and practical then nowadays movies.
Nice efforts.Keep it up
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