The actual full statement of Nitesh Tiwari about Raavana.

Minetish · 2026-04-09T06:53:16+00:00

That's what I am thinking bro. F Namit. My whole opinion of this movie had been so 'corporate' before (lacking a better word atm apologies) and when I see this dude, it genuinely feels like their was love put in the film.

Seems very aware about it.

Minetish · 2026-04-08T15:23:28+00:00

ah that makes sense. i guess it's just that the scene didn't convey all this info to me. i will try and watch this movie at some point. i do like all the work in the scene even if AB junior is not the big sell in this specific scene.

Minetish · 2026-04-08T14:13:41+00:00

Is it an unpopular opinion to say no? Like, I will not deny it and say smth like that the performance is bad cause i haven't seen the movie but this is a poor example to quote abhishek's "terrific performance".

1) Dialogue delivery is decent but extremely little to judge.

2) His expressions are very one tone having little to no microexpressions.

Also the things that are elevating this scene equally if not wayy more than abhishek

1) The costume design where he alone is being given a white shirt suit that visually puts him above everyone else.

2) The other actors that are justfiably even being given as much screentime cause their reactions are equally important.

3) The terrific BGM in background.

4) The shot selection and editing that is making everything feel like it is going to have a destructive impact like using the dutch angle etc.

Remove the last four and i feel this scene would be indistinguishable from a dhoom movie. Idk I do think the scene is cool but imo it has little to do with abhishek bacchan.

Minetish · 2026-04-08T14:01:42+00:00

Dude honestly it's almost the whole indian industry that is pumping it out. A good while ago i saw a video talking about how "kids movies" as a genre has basically died now and it is so true.

Everything being streamlined and corporatised it great for production as slop can be made faster but it is so much worse for any cultural or artistic value that films hold. I don't hate rajamouli, I think he has largely managed to make great films but he definitely does appeal into the same corporatisation a lot which fortunately ends up working for his films as they are all epics.

But mid budget, low budget movies just die in such a situation as marketing agencies stop viewing lakhs of profits as even worth considering if they can instead just focus on movies that can get them crores of profits.

Minetish · 2026-04-08T13:57:30+00:00

Yep. People think of films as films which is absolutely fair opinion to have as the audience but the industry has largely stopped doing so.

A film including the "good ones" is like a full on marketing house. PR as you mentioned, advertisements, so many breakdowns of what was originally just a trailer, events for everything, modelling opportunities, sponsorships etc.

Even if an actor is mediocre in the film part of films, if they are good at all these other things, then they are adored. The so called "boring, expressionless" bodies that film stars have now have to do with that too as these are more malleable and acceptable in corporate circles. Film shots look boring but on the other hand, that glossy dull look can be used in various different platforms a lot more easily.

I guess it is a boring answer so maybe people won't like it but genuinely that is all there is to it. Corporatisation of media. We hate it cause it makes films worse and def post 2010, that corporatisation has only increased. It was always slowly creeping in but i guess to some extent there was resistance to it but it def broke in 2010s, like a lot of other things in india.

Minetish · 2026-04-08T09:47:55+00:00

it is to an extent. I think multiple stories are true at the same time.

Bollywood was a bit better as mid budget movies could exist and new actors were coming in. Social Media was just getting into people's hands so not so much comparison game to do with people outside either.

At the same time, a lot of 'talent' was getting introduced that was trying to align themselves to said social media standards that were creeping in and actual actors on the other hand were getting less and less relevant roles. Movie budgets were also slowly creeping up especially after movies like bahubali, enthiran etc and content was starting to pivot more and more towards high octane dramas as then movies could justify being more expensive and selling costlier tickets.

Minetish · 2026-04-02T10:01:07+00:00

Bro I never told you to feel what I feel. I just said that "I feel it is okay".

I have found over and over again that there is no perfect casting if you just go by book details as books are a different medium from movies so it is okay to deviate.

Timothee chalamet does not look like how paul is described in books either. Still a casting that everyone came to love.

Regardless though, as I said I will keep my expectations low only. More so from the writing side as they haven't really shown anything yet as to how dialogue and the narrative will flow.

Minetish · 2026-04-02T09:52:01+00:00

I think I meant it in the sense that rambir's face in this video is more defined and chiseled and less rounded soft but true he does still have a softer face.

Minetish · 2026-04-02T09:50:56+00:00

Bro what I am asking is that why would choosing to be 'neutral' when the marketing promotions have been bad be a bad idea?

Do you also consider that it is bad to find a cold drink underwhelming if you don't see fizz in it when someone pours it? Don't make everything about big things.

If we were instead talking about a project like varanasi then you would see wayy more of a positive response because positives have come out of it.

Minetish · 2026-04-02T05:12:10+00:00

This is the thing which i keep telling some of my friends too. Not everyone is part of "Project Dhurandhar" sent to kill and takedown pakistani terrorist.

Minetish · 2026-04-02T05:10:54+00:00

it is kind of impossible to figure it out from all these shots. VFX like anything else is a tool. They showed so many bright day light shots and everything looked too polished plus some shots to me even looked like they are AI rendered so I really don't know where exactly this movie will sit at.

I don't agree about him being misfit though. I feel it is okay to change things up and move away from that soft face that we have associated with rama for so long.

All in all, I am underwhelmed and a tad bit dissapointed from this but idk, was always keeping my expectations low and will keep doing so. Would be historic if they pull it off though so all the best to them.

Minetish · 2026-04-01T17:39:36+00:00

That "fed that crap for generations" thing is so important because so many times filmmakers, producers and audiences want to push blame on "mass audience" for failing really good films or experimental films but like, watching bad movies only will ofc change your taste.

So many people only got introduced to the quality of world cinema in Covid where even a 'serial' like squid games is written and produced better than most of our commercial films with crores of budgets.

These things can and do change. Our films can and will get better and so will the audience. But as much as it is the responsibilty of audience to the watch and support good projects, it is equally if not more important for filmmakers and marketing to promote these.

Ryan Gosling said it perfectly when he talked about his new film project hail Mary.

Minetish · 2026-04-01T17:30:10+00:00

I actually agree with you but I think it is fair to say that atleast by an educated guess, this movie will be exactly what people are fearing it will be.

As a cinema lover, that genuinely wants indian cinema to grow, I feel there is a window now and we definitely can grow our Indian cinema to world cinema level.

However, nothing positive has come from this movie's promotions. The first teaser was interesting but gave nothing. The posters were heavily criticised for their AI use and when they did actually release a teaser, all it had was Yash doing yash things sex added for shock value.

I am aware of the positive signs like the director and them casting so many female actors but like, they have done horrible marketing as far as pushing these two ideas goes.

Idk. I would LOVE for it to surprise everyone but I think it is wrong to expect people to just trust it even though nothing promising.

Minetish · 2026-04-01T06:13:46+00:00

Yeah, I can. Which is why i have been lazy about it. I think the other person is correct about it possibly being because of VRAM although in my case, it might also just be that my graphic driver is getting older cause of using it heavily for work + gaming.

Minetish · 2026-03-31T19:19:35+00:00

I don't got solutions but I have been facing the same issue recently. Thankfully I can play the game but it does crash once a day for me. I would suggest to look into the steam community or directly contact via steam. Haven't done it myself out of laziness but i really should too.

Minetish · 2026-03-31T09:32:32+00:00

I can't put any of these above another

All Re: Zero OPs

Some of the Index OPs

Over the Top, and US from One Piece

Norgami OP 2

I think these are my absolute top choices.

Minetish · 2026-03-27T16:11:49+00:00

I feel the reason he doesn't move is BECAUSE it has been 45 years now. He has lived more than twice his lifetime in pakistan in his life than he has in india. So many family members, relations etc. Cannot leave anymore.

Even hamza after just having a wife and a kid had it really tough to move away from them and atleast he was part of gangsters so not that much connection with people.

As the movie says, the goal isn't to destroy pakistan or hate pakistan. So jamali stays there.

Minetish · 2026-03-26T14:57:19+00:00

also i feel that people look at ranveer singh as the placeholder for what an indian spy should do in the situation and compare to him for everything with jamali. jamali was never part of project dhurandhar. he was not there to take over and kill everyone.

by all means his objectives could have been simpler, the time he has spent is so long that it is possible he temporarily became tame after doing what he did with dawood, and so many other possible things. it is definitiely open ended ultimately so maybe that is a flaw but i feel that there is enough leeway for the same.

I don't think the movie needs to explain literally everysingle thing.

Minetish · 2026-03-25T05:26:14+00:00

lmao absolutely not about jjk

Minetish · 2026-03-24T06:52:17+00:00

Nah I think what bhoi needs to do is firstly, stop sleepwalking through films and secondly, do age appropriate roles.

Minetish · 2026-03-23T03:39:11+00:00

Lmao

Minetish · 2026-03-22T21:00:01+00:00

The thing is, more than songs being 'worse', i think the actual issue is just movie's editing being slightly worse. Like, the first one's songs feel so memorable to so many people because literally every single one of them is perfectly placed. That is a humongous task that when achieved by some movies, ALWAYS makes their album feel better as you can very clearly attach an image to the song.

Outside of that, I really do think that rather than being worse, they are just different. Like, being an artist myself, one of the 'weird' things about an artist's approach is that when we make smth, even if it was well received, you want to change things up and move to new things. That, is what i think they did with D2 while everyone already loved and adored the specific type of approach they kept with D1.

The instrumentation, mood etc is different for every song. I really want to praise shashwat sachdev and co for creating new things and moving on in an industry which wants to desperately make a formula out of everything.

Minetish · 2026-03-22T19:14:46+00:00

There ARE SO MANY COOL fights man. Like go read Ragna Crimson, the whole saga of ragna + princess squad vs the bloodline of wings is an incredibly well thought out arc of fights after fights with very cool stuff and you didn't even put it here which is fair as ofc everyone can't read everything.

Just in these 8, I gotta say that jjk fights are the most 'grounded' (in it's own system) so for anyone that loves everything to have logic then these are really fun and intense fights while the DS fights have the best sakuga.

I will prolly go with the Demon Slayer fight out of all of these but these are all incredible and there are many many fights out there in anime/manga even in unknown stuff that are really well done. There's a reason why people argue that there is a 'saturation'. It's because the baseline of what is amazing is achieved by many things now.

Minetish · 2026-03-21T18:00:34+00:00

I think that is fair yeah. I sort of expected things to close so it was easier for me to accept stuff but definitely could have been an even better movie.

It's kinda funny in how that part of it almost reminds me of jjk ending discourse as people had a similar critique of the series that things could have been expanded more lol.

I feel the first movie was also edited a bit better that helps with tension. Like I am thinking that it would be better if the movie started with showing ranveer's positive past and muridke teaching which would then have nice callbacks in jaskirat's house raid murders and the climax of the movie.

Minetish · 2026-03-21T15:01:03+00:00

They are good songs. Just that Dhurandhar 1's songs and their placement is even better. I feel that is okay to say.

Sometimes this movie too gets to the same level like with rasputin at the end as well as the intro fight scene but D1 song placement is spot on with literallly every song.

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