Saturday 1 November 2014
IMDb is world's busiest movie site, a film listed on that gets more attention than any other medium.
So, I opened the list of films of 2014 [sorted by rating]. I saw Queen on the top 3, felt happy for our industry, then I looked for another great film we made this year, Ankhon Dekhi.
I couldn't find Ankhon Dekhi on the 50 best movies of 2014.
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HERE IS WHY:
A film only needs 1000 votes [ratings] to be listed in Best films of that year, and failing which the film fails to get the attention of close to 2 billion monthly visitors on the internet.
Popular films [read mediocre] receives an average of 30k to 40k votes but of no use because they receive bad ratings, but the ones which can be on the top, fails to receive a mere 1000 votes.
Think about the difference IMDb alone making in the marketing of "Queen" and "Ankhon Dekhi". Since Queen attained the 1000 vote criteria, an IMDb user in countries like Bolivia, Vatican City, Chile, Colombia or any other lesser important place on the map, knows about a film called QUEEN, while they have no freaking idea what is "ANKHON DEKHI"
Same goes for Bimal Roy's Madhumati, Do Bigha Zameen and Bandini. They are timeless classic, but the internet savvy movie enthusiast, aren't getting the means to reach these great movies, just because of the fact that they are not receiving a meagre 1000 votes.
Let's vote, let's endorse our better films. The World needs to know what really defines Indian films, the perception has to change.
Let's vote, let's endorse our better films. The World needs to know what really defines Indian films, the perception has to change.
This isn't only about Indian films but many great films made in Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine are still not known to movie lovers out there. Let us use IMDb's power to highlight the deserving movies. Great Art must get its deserving audience and we have to make sure that it happens.
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PS: Since Movie Geek's Blog is trying to determine the greatest movie ever made as voted by its readers, will you please take a minute to vote for your favorite movie(s) on the right side bar of this blog?
Agree with you. IMDB is not a great site for Indian movies. It is more westernised and even with English movies you would see this difference on what appeals to a culture may not appeal to others. I am part of building www.flixpack.com which is in private beta now. This has the ability for users to create their own circle and share and recommend movies so you always can see what appeals to you, your friends and the circle of people whose opinions matter to you. Flixpack has a great database of movies for you to choose from, review them, recommend them to friends and many more.
ReplyDeleteThe site is in private beta now. You can request for an invite and try it out. Would love to hear your feedback.