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While Bollywood movies are widely perceived as the face of Indian movie industry in the Western world, a Brisbane based online film critic is going beyond Bollywood and reviewing regional language movies for the English speaking audience. Corrie Hinschen is of full praise on these lesser known movies, but he does not mince words while criticising the plagiarism in the industry.
Indian movies are known to the world as Bollywood movies, and are adored by many for their vibrant colours, song sequences and interesting portrayal of life. The best outcome said to have come out of Bollywood movies getting popular outside India is how it changed the perception on the stereotypes of the country.
Whilst Bollywood has its own share, there is no denying that regional cinemas in India have a huge fan following of their own, particularly because of the quality of the movies they make. However, they have been overshadowed by mainstream Bollywood movies and these have not been exposed to non-Indians much.
Corrie Hinschen, a Brisbane based Australian is breaking the norms to be the spokesperson for regional Indian cinema, especially South Indian cinema.
Pieces of Work
Corrie is a YouTuber, who reviews Asian movies from South Korea, Japan, China, India etc. He broadcasts the reviews on his channel – ‘Pieces of Work’, which has around 32 k subscribers.
South Korean films, according to him, are his bread and butter, however he adores the South Indian films as well. Of the 42 Indian movies he has reviewed so far, 27 are Hindi movies (very few of these are the mainstream Bollywood type), eight of them are in Malayalam, three Tamil and two each in Kannada and Telugu.
He believes that it is the necessity of the regional cinema to compete with the multimillion dollar Bollywood that compels them to make extraordinarily good movies.
Corrie has never been to India. He doesn't know any of these languages or their culture. He is even unaware that there are huge communities speaking these South Indian languages in Australia.
Still, how did he end up reviewing these movies?
His audience played a part here. They took him to a world beyond Bollywood and even now he follows the suggestions of his 32K YouTube audience to pick and choose films to review.
India, Stop Plagiarism!
Wait before you get misled into thinking that his reviews are all about applauses.
Corrie does not shy away from honestly stating that the movie lacks soul, and as he does it, touches upon some pertinent social issues. His recent review on Padmaavat is the best example.
Yet another relevant issue that he addressed recently was the plagiarism in Indian movies. In his video titled, “India, we need to talk about plagiarism”, he rips apart some of the plagiarised Indian movies.
In conversation with SBS Malayalam, he said that this inadvisable trend of plagiarising (which has been covered up by the wrongly used idiom “inspired by”) will undermine the value of the great movies Indian directors make.
https://www.sbs.com.au/yourlanguage...aussies-review-indian-movies-beyond-bollywood
