Sanjay wrote:
newDEEP wrote:
Raghuvir wrote:
They also removed the song 'Aye Ishq Yeh Sab Duniyawale' which is not even available in color at all. Only the audio of the song, remastered is available. God knows what's the point of releasing a restored, colorized version in this way??
Not only that, even a small scene where Anarkali talks to her mom is deleted from the colored version and is there in the black and white one of Shemaroo.
Even fadeouts and dissolves are removed.
these were some decisions taken in view of today's audience being less patient with long movies and also where some scenes did not really allow being cropped (optimally) for widescreen ratio.
Why restore/release a classic if "today's audience" is not acceptable of it? Why not just make a new movie as per today's audience's preferences? I would think the very premise of wanting to re-release a classic is that there is an audience that wishes to see the "classic". Which would mean in it's original form and not mutilated by either cutting or cropping. As for the cropping, what was the need to crop the movie for a wider aspect ratio? All the great art direction & cinematography of the movie was totally destroyed in the process of making the aspect ratio wider.
that too is a valid point of view.
however, me and you still have the original MEA to watch, and the producers tried to reach out to a younger and newer audience through what they thought was the right way with a shorter cropped colourized stereophonic MEA.
BTW, Dev Anand did seem to have found a balance -- when he did "hum dono (rangeen" he put his weight behind cropping saying his was a romantic movie and there was no harm in seeing it cropped this way.
In fact, so many movies shot in 4x3 were forced into cropped widescreen for theatres when the widescreen trend started. Take Zanjeer for example. Only the Reliance Big DVD has it it 4x3. All others are 1.85:1 and it was shown in 1.85:1 in many theatres in India.
The colourized movies should be seen as different products, and maybe as different movies altogether. Our cen certs do make the distinction in the title -- for ex. -- "Hum Dono (Colourized)"-- btw, any idea if this is out on BD/DVD?