Realistic Bollywood Movies Which Filled The Eyes And Hearts

Realism means accepting what has happened and dealing with it without artificiality and avoiding artistic conventions, unreasonableness, exotic and supernatural elements. In a nutshell, to present the things in which they are. Apart from ‘Masala Movies’, Bollywood has produced many realistic and powerful movies based on true incidents, showing either the depiction of a true story or an influential individual. These movies cover the entire spectrum of the events concerned which are sometimes delightfully entertaining to watch. The motion of such an event documented in the form of a movie is generally graphic and true to the content of the real cause. Artists generally do research work and try to go in depth of the concerned incident.

They try to know the unknown facts and figures and portray it in films. With that, the Hindi movies glorify a true story and have fascinated audiences worldwide. Realism in Bollywood is not the matter of the 21st century; it has a prolonged history, and provides it a strong base for the depiction in Indian cinema. Realism infused in Hindi cinema dates back to as early as 1920s to 1930s. An early example would be V. Shantram’s 1925 silent film ‘Sawkari Pash’, acclaimed as a real breakthrough for Hindi cinema about a poor peasant (portrayed by Shantaram himself). The 1937 Shantaram film ‘Duniya Na Mane’ also showed the plight of the women in the society in India. Hindi cinema had started to depict real events to a large extent, owing to this distinct feature, Hindi cinema was studied by renowned academicians to trace the demographics and socioeconomic as well as the shift in politics through time. From the inception of realism, Hindi cinema had got patrons who worked for earning money through entertainment more than exploring its artistic potentiality. The aesthetic value of films was deliberately ignored by most of the Indian masses. Further, between the periods of post-independence to the end of the century, many realistic movies were being produced by Hindi cinema depicting the life of politicians, wars and local murder scandals.

Examples included: ‘ Aandhi Aandhi was an interesting Hindi television serial  >> Read More... ’ (1975), an Indian politician drama based on former Prime Minister of India ‘Smt. Indira Gandhi’. Many issues were added at that time on this film. Indira Gandhi did not let the full movie release though. It was banned during the national emergency of 1975 and thus immediately it became a national topic. When the government was changed, then it was cleared in 1977. One more example can be taken into consideration, i.e. ‘Border’ (1997), a war drama movie. It tells us how only a handful of soldiers from the Sikh regiments took on the Pakistan’s tank battalion and won. Border was made to show the unnecessary death of hundreds of soldiers and the pain caused to their families, which could have been avoided. Thus, these movies spread a positive message in society and spectators get to know about true incidents within 2 to 3 hours. In the early period of 21st century, Hindi cinema was perhaps much concerned about the depiction of true incidents in movies. There are many non-fiction movies which have been produced since 2000. Whether there was the matter of assassination, murder, massacre, war or individual, Hindi cinema has depicted all things that used to happen in daily life. Examples included: LOC Kargil, Slumdog Millionaire Click to look into! >> Read More... , and ‘The Attack of 26 /11’, ‘ Sarkar Click to look into! >> Read More... ’, Gangs of Wasseypur I and II, Shootout At Wadala Click to look into! >> Read More... , Madras Café, Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai Click to look into! >> Read More... , Shootout At Lokhandwala Click to look into! >> Read More... , Mary Kom Click to look into! >> Read More... , Bhaag Milkha Bhaag Click to look into! >> Read More... , ‘ Talvar Click to look into! >> Read More... ’, ‘ Guru Click to look into! >> Read More... ’, Manjhi- The Mountain Man, etc.

All these listed movies are a true depiction of real incidents and were used to propagate the information regarding the subject matter of the plot that has been taken from real incidents. ‘Mary Kom’, a magnificent tale woven around a childhood trauma and a tantalizing agony of not winning an Olympic medal in athletics; a story of will and hope, a celebration of athletic spirit, a truly inspiring and motivating biopic. ‘The Attacks Of 26/11’ was the first Bollywood documentary drama movie ever based on the Mumbai terror attacks of 2008. ‘Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai’ was loosely based on the life and times of gangster Haji Mustan and the rise of Dawood Ibrahim. So, these tales are very informative to young India who can rule this country. If realistic reel of Hindi Cinema makes the influence of real life, then it is better to have the prolonged concept of realism in Hindi cinema than having this world of fantasy, which ultimately leads to deluded masses. A person who does not have time or ability to read the novel or to go through the whole true incident, would be better off to spend two to three hours on a realistic movie. Through this, Hindi Cinema can construct a better India than it already is.