Tuesday, September 01, 2009

Two out of three ain't bad

Seen on a DVD shelf in Planet M this morning, a box-set titled "Black and White gems from Hindi cinema". Three films - Ardhangini, Kath Putli, Ram aur Shyam.

And on the cover of the DVD, a large, urgent sticker that reads: "The film Ram aur Shyam in this package is in full colour."

6 comments:

  1. 'Black and White Gems' is such an odd way to title the box set.

    It's almost as though they are apologetic about the films being in B&W, with the sticker being added as an afterthought to woo customers who can't tolerate monochrome images.

    The almost visceral hatred some people have for B&W is hard to fathom. B&W movies are taboo on Indian movie channels. I've even met "film-buffs" who argue that Gone with the Wind is "technically superior" to Citizen Kane because it happens to be in color!!

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  2. Ram aur Shyam was later released in a colour version, I guess. Reason is when I saw it back in the seventies it was in colour. Those days films used to coloured manually, so I heard.

    :)

    J

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  3. John: Ram aur Shyam was made in colour, as far as I know - it wasn't colourised later (like two other Dilip Kumar films, Naya Daur and Mughal-e-Azam, were).

    I've even met "film-buffs" who argue that Gone with the Wind is "technically superior" to Citizen Kane because it happens to be in color!!

    Shrikanth: amusing - I would think people who were so dismissive of black and white wouldn't even bother getting into cinematic discussions of that sort (would they even have seen Kane anyway?).

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  4. Great Movies whether in color or black & white

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  5. thanks.. for providing nice post.you have explained about color or black & white movies. its really good.

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