The Super Cool Korean Movies and the Northeast Indians.

 I've a confession to make. I'm addicted to Korean movies. So are thousands in Mizoram, Manipur. Well basically the entire of Northeast India. I've heard it's way more in countries like Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, China, Taiwan, Philippines, etc.

It has been a while now since I watched my first Korean movie - it was My Sassy Girl. (Incidentally, My Sassy Girl was the most used and exportable Korean film in the annals Korean film industry according to Wikipedia. So popular so it outsold The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter which ran at the exact same time. Dramacool It sold 4,852,845 tickets!) That was around 2 yrs ago. Right now I've watched scores of them - Windstruck, Sex is Zero (Korean version of American Pie?), My Wife is just a Gangster 1, 2 & 3, The Classic, Daisy, A Moment to Remember, Joint Security Area, My Little Bride, A Dirty Carnival, You are my Sunshine, Silmido, etc to call but several!

I'm completely totally hooked!

Whenever a friend first invited me to view My Sassy Girl I was frankly uncertain if I would enjoy it. However the spunky, don't-care-a-damn-tomboy heroine for the reason that movie made me fall deeply in love with Korean movies (and soaps even!). It is not particularly surprising if you ask me that I fell deeply in love with Korean movies considering the fact I really like French movies. Korean movies have the exact same treatment of their subjects like this of French movies. I regularly watch TV5 French movies and Arirang TV whenever my cableguy allows me! Needless to say different genre of movies offer you a different perspective on Korean movies. I think comedy is where Korean movies would be the best.

Now the Korean movies and soaps, as I've said, are popular in the Northeastern states of India. Even yet in New Delhi there is a movie library or two where you can get Korean movies. You may be sure I'm a regular! In a more serious note, the question is why... why do the northeasterners love Korean movies?? Even with decades of Hindustanization with Bollywood, Hindi lessons and Indian politics are we somewhat wanting for HOME!

It is great to see one of your own (read chinkies?) on the screen after so many decades of it being filled by the Amitabhs and the Khans and the Roshans of Bollywood. Korean dramas are just like a breath of fresh air after so much stale Bollywood movies which I seldom watch except for Ram Gopal Verma movies. The intricate plots of twists and turns and a great deal more urbane emotions are what attracted me to Korean and French movies. Maybe, just might be, race comes with a part here. Being racially similar, our habits and cultural nuances are very similar! Their gestures and facial expressions are very similar to your expressions. The rather alien Punjabi or Bihari nuances of Bollywood deters me from so many good movies!

Korean movies may also be technically better than Bollywood movies and may also contend with Hollywood movies. Awards and recognition even yet in the Cannes Film Festival are becoming a yearly occurrence for the Korean film industry. Actually Hollywood biggies Dreamworks has paid $2 million (US) for a remake of the 2003 suspense thriller Janghwa, Hongryeon (A Tale of Two Sisters) compare that to $1 million (US) taken care of the best to remake the Japanese movie The Ring.

It is true that people, Northeasterners, love everything that is new to your culture unlike our mainland Indians. We actually welcome change and changed we're to an extent. We effortlessly copy the western design of dressing jeans, T-shirts and et al. That could be another reason for the recent addiction with Korean movies. But somehow I doubt it is a driving thing like teenage love affair. It has got cultural affinity overtones written around it. Bollywood must counter this onslaught of Korean movies with increased Chak De characters! It has lost much audience to Korean film industry.

Several weeks back while having a chit-chat about our lives in New Delhi - the awkward stares, the down right patronising calling of names and the abuses in workplaces - with a friend of mine he remarked,"Are we in the incorrect country?" ;."Will you be happy if you should be treated just like a guest in your country?" asks among the two Northeast characters in Chak De India. As for me it's bearable with the aid of movies like My Sassy Girl and such from our kin Korean film industry. Laugh your heart out and forget the troubles of the country until, obviously, Chak De India has bigger roles for Northeasterners!

What are Prime 20 Animated Cartoons in recent history? Precisely what Built These people So competent?

 Who said cartoons are for the young? The effects and technology that goes into making a high animated movie are nothing in short supply of brilliant! How can you not appreciate that?

The utmost effective 20 animated cartoons of all time are based on revenue, how much they gross. The next list has collectively earned a complete of more than USD200 million - but what is it about animated cartoons that attracts viewers and fills movie theaters? The next titles may offer you a hint.

1. Shrek 2
2. Finding Nemo
3. The Lion King
4. Shrek the Third
5. Shrek
6. The Incredibles
7. Monsters, Inc
8. Toy Story 2
9. Cars
10. Aladdin
11. Ratatouille
12. Happy Feet
13. Ice Age: Meltdown
14. Madagascar
15. Toy Story
16. The Simpsons
17. The Polar Express
18. Ice Age
19. Beauty and the Beast
20. Tarzan

Needless to say the advent of 3D computer software has had animated characters to 'life', so to speak. Viewers cannot help but be enthralled at the realistic features, character traits and movements. Teamed with whacky objects that do amazing things, incredible special effects and backgrounds - they're among the reasons these animated cartoons are very popular.Mangabudy

People also love to laugh and be entertained - animated cartoons are designed to do just that, make people laugh and evoke emotions, so a great storyline is essential. Nobody really wants to see an animated cartoon movie set around a dramatic storyline. Characters must be fun, whacky, lovable and endearing, which all of these are. Backgrounds are beautifully illustrated and objects move and do silly things, telling their particular story and along the way entertain around the characters do. It also helps to possess a favorite actor since the voice and personality behind the type - someone the audience can identify with and almost without exception all the most effective 20 usually have significantly more than one.

Yet without technology and some brilliant and talented people, this all would not be possible. Bringing a drawing to lifelike proportions and allowing it tell a tale is nothing in short supply of miraculous. With the aid of sophisticated software programs and teams of highly talented those who possess colossal ideas and fantastic imaginations, animated cartoons as sophisticated once we see today, would not be possible.

The very next time you think a cartoon is for kids only, think again. Treat yourself to one hour or two of amazing special effects, a great storyline and all the huge benefits technology and computers can bring, and give credit where it is indeed due.