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Devdas, Monsoon Wedding in Time top list
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Sunday, 29 Dec 2002
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NEW YORK: Sanjay Leela Bhansali's blockbuster Devdas and Meera Nair's much-hailed comedy Monsoon Wedding are among the movies which won the top honours in the ranking for the current year by the Time magazine.
Devdas, described as the "all-singing, all-dancing, all-fired spectacle," ranks fourth in the grading done for international films and is ahead of Steven Spielberg's Minority Report, Laurent Cantet's Time Out (French), Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine (US), Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away, (Japan), Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings (New Zealand) and Pillip Noyce's The Quiet American (Australia-Vietnam).
Monsoon Wedding is placed fifth among the movies produced in the West and is ahead of About a Boy, Italian for Beginners, The Pianist, 8 Mile and Safe Conduct.It is only in the recent years that Indian movies have started attracting attention of mainstream media in the United States and several theatres now have sold out regular shows.With high quality subtitles, they have started attracting. international audiences. Kaante, which ran to packed houses in the United States has won rave reviews in several newspapers and specialised journals including Variety. NRI filmmakers have been producing movies to which the audiences in Western countries can relate and the subtitles use language which is understood by them.Time describes Monsoon Wedding as "smart, funny and ultimately poignant" comedy in which "a vast and fractious Indian family succeeds - after many hilarious difficulties - in marrying off a reluctant daughter." The film is still running on pay per view cable channels in the US. Time noted that the plot of Devdas is based on 1917 novel and is good-old family-values propaganda - rich boy, ("all-world charmer" Shahrukh Khan), leaves home, abandons girl friend (former Miss World Aishwarya Rai), dallies with prostitute ("worldly-wise" Madhuri Dixit), suffers nobly."It is played with such commitment that the tritest plot twists seem worth believing - and singing about, in nine production numbers. "Beyond that, Devdas is visual ravishment, with huge sets, fabulous frocks and beautiful people to fill them: It is a grandeur the old Hollywood moguls would have loved," it added. Topping both the lists is Pedro Almodovar's Talk to Her. It is a movie about two young women, each in a coma, and two men who love them. In the international ranking, it is followed by Martin Scoresese's Gangs of New York, and Alexander Sorkurov's Russian Age.For the movies produced in the West, Talk to Her is followed by About Schmidt, Far From Heaven, Road to Perdition and Monsoon Wedding.
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