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Black
2005 · Film · 124 min
Directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Unable to see, hear, or speak after a childhood illness, a young woman grows up prone to violent outbursts until an eccentric tutor changes her life.
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Thank you. I looked him up.. and found that the movie 3 Idiots was loosely based on his first novel! I love that movie so much, and it got me into the wonderful world of 21st C Indian cinema.
3 Idiots (2009) and PK (2014) are my favourites. The best of the other recent Indian movies I've seen:
Barfi! (2012), Mardaani (2014), Lagaan (2001), Rocket Singh (2009), Dangal (2016), Dabba (2013), Black (2005), Rang de Basanti (2006), Taare Zameen Par (2007), Dhobi Ghat (2010), Secret Superstar (2017), My Name Is Khan (2010)
They already do, all the time. The difference between B-movies and B-games is the effort involved to make something that provides passive vs. interactive entertainment. People will sit through an entire movie as long as it doesn't completely suck. To play through a game, it has to be genuinely good on several counts or seriously good at at least one thing.
Ex: My favorite B-game that I remember playing was Black on the original XBox. It basically scrapped all the evolution of the FPS genre over the past decade: laughably nonexistent storyline, dumb AI, old school style health packs randomly laying around. The team focused entirely on the weapons and the intensity of the firefights; I still don't think any game has had better weapon sounds since. Played through it in a week, had tons of fun, never felt a need to pick it up again. Though, after writing this, I might try to track down a copy.