{"id":107,"date":"2011-02-25T10:15:45","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T10:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/indigenus\/2011\/02\/indian-sci-fi-film.html"},"modified":"2011-02-25T10:15:45","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T10:15:45","slug":"indian_scifi_film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/indigenus\/2011\/02\/indian_scifi_film.html","title":{"rendered":"Indian sci-fi film"},"content":{"rendered":"

So good to hear we will have a proper sciene fiction film<\/a>, after all, made in Bollywood and enhanced by Hollywood. Debutant hindi film maker Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan, who won a national award last season for his India-Pakistan themed film Lahore<\/em>, is collaborating with top end Hollywood special effects master John Palmer to make what is being dubbed as this country’s first ever competent sci-fi movie. Palmer has Hollywood greats like Armageddon, Apollo 13, Species II, Star Trek, Deep Impact<\/em> and The Day After Tomorrow<\/em> to his credit.<\/p>\n

The Hindi film industry’s contribution to this genre of film making has been minimal and mediocre. Reason why even a hint of sci-fi in a Hindi movie with hydra-headed plots thrills the Indian audience. It is, therefore, a novel idea to make an out-and-out science fiction. The theme has not been tried too well in India and could be a runaway success, what with most other genres — action, romance, drama et al. — done to death.<\/p>\n

Which brings us to the question that Gauhar Raza raised in his commentary <\/a>some time back: are we, as a nation, armed with enough scientific temperament to appreciate artistic endeavours in science? Do we really have the audience and a policy framework to support creators of popular science media?<\/p>\n

The reaction to Chauhan’s much-awaited film should answer some of those questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So good to hear we will have a proper sciene fiction film, after all, made in Bollywood and enhanced by Hollywood. Debutant hindi film maker Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan, who won a national award last season for his India-Pakistan themed film Lahore, is collaborating with top end Hollywood special effects master John Palmer to make what is being dubbed as this country\u2019s first ever competent sci-fi movie. Palmer has Hollywood greats like Armageddon, Apollo 13, Species II, Star Trek, Deep Impact and The Day After Tomorrow to his credit.  Read more<\/a> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-of-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/indigenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/indigenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/indigenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/indigenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/indigenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/indigenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/indigenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/indigenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/indigenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}