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[laughter] [screaming] >> What is a cootie and why you want to lose it on the world? Ooh, loose that. Lose that on the world. Hey, goodie. >> Uh, today we got a uh video. >> I would hope so. >> They're like, "Yeah, get to it, guys. >> Come on. get to it already. I'm sick of you gabbing. >> This is from a channel called uh >> Shut Your Gab. >> Studio Bender. >> Studio Bender, where everybody wants to stick their bender in a studio. >> Uh this is a video like a video essay uh from them uh called Why Bollywood is Only Part of Indian Cinema. >> What? That's a hot take. >> Hot take. I thought it was the only Indian cinema. >> Yeah. >> Uh we don't actually watch anything other than Hindi. Correct. Um because >> well let's be honest it's the only thing we like. >> Yeah it's and it's the best one. Uh I mean does >> and that's our favorite term by the way is Bollywood. We don't don't be calling that Hindi cinema. >> Does does Kumbalange nights really hold a candle to K3G? >> No. No. >> No. >> Of course it doesn't. >> No. >> Because K3G has the best acting. >> Yeah. >> Can Great Indian Kitchen ever stand a chance at the Oscars against Houseful Five or War Two? Come on. No, it can't because they'd be dead after real. Let's be real. >> Here we go. [laughter] >> If you asked most people what is Indian cinema, they would likely answer Bollywood. >> Sounds a little >> Bollywood is only one branch of a far larger cinematic tradition. >> Are you English or Scottish? In this three-part series, we [music] hope to correct this assumption, to revel in the sights and sounds of truly magical work and to trace this rich history back to >> I think it's AI. >> It is AI guide to [music] Indian cinema. >> Maybe it's not. Maybe that's >> episode one. >> Never heard that AI voice. So >> India is home to 28 states each shaped by better cultures and artistic traditions. Unsurprisingly, it is also home to a constellation of film industries. Hindi cinema, >> Tamil cinema in Chennai. >> No, he doesn't. >> Telugu [music] cinema in Hyderabad. Malayalam cinema in Kochi. >> He's pronouncing right. >> Canada cinema in Bengaluru. Bengali cinema in Kolkata. Marathi cinema in Pune and many [music] more beyond. >> Thank you. Each possesses its own stars, genres, aesthetic traditions, and audience expectations. Yet something runs beneath all of it. A common inheritance to myth. Music. >> Yeah. >> And live performance. All of which existed long before any camera rolled. Understanding Indian cinema means understanding what it was built on. But where did all of these industries come from? the British. >> To answer that, we must go back to the beginning. Dada Sahib Pal is widely regarded as the father of Indian cinema. In 1913, he released Raja Harish Chandra, a silent feature film whose intertitles appeared in Hindi, Marathi and English. Pulka worked with an all Indian crew and personally handled nearly every stage of production. directing, editing, even processing the film stock himself. Early Bombay cinema grew from the traditions of Pari theater, a vibrant stage culture shaped by Udu dialogue, Persian romance epics such as Llaya Majnu and Shirin Farad and Islamic performance traditions like the Guzzle and Kavali. These theatrical roots informed Indian cinema's early love of heightened drama, lyrical dialogue and musical storytelling. The south Indian industry soon joined this emerging medium. Our Nataraja Mudalier's Kakavadam launched Tamil cinema followed by the Telugu silent film Bishma Pratikna. >> This is great and the Mallayalam film Viga Kumaran. From the beginning, each region developed its own storytelling tendencies. Mullyalam cinema drew heavily from Kerala's literary tradition of social drama. Tamil and Telugu [music] films frequently adapted mythological stories from the Piranas and the great Indian epics. During the Thumbo silent era from 1916 to 1932, 88 of the 107 films produced were based on mythological or devotional subjects >> retelling stories of gods, heroes and saints >> such as Gabir and Ramdas. >> Really great. >> Even though these films were technically silent, Indian cinema was never truly experienced [music] without words. In theaters across the country, exhibitors often hired live narrators who would read intertitles aloud and explained [music] the action to audiences. >> The original narration. >> This practice reinforced something that would remain central to Indian filmm. The power of spoken dialogue and performance. Long before the arrival of synchronized sound, Indian cinema was already concretizing an oral storytelling tradition. Music too was rarely absent. Many screenings featured live accompaniment. Tableas, harmoniums, or small orchestras added emotional rhythm to the unfolding [music] drama. These musicians frequently hired from theater ensembles would later become some of the pioneers of Indian film music direction. That transition came in 1931 with Ardeshir Iran's Alamara, the first Hindi talk. Following its success, Irani entrusted the expansion of sound cinema in South India to HM Ready who had assisted him during [music] the film's production. Ready would soon achieve a rare distinction in film history directing both the first Tamili Khaledas and the first Telugui Bakta Praada. Meanwhile, in the east, Bengal emerged as another early center of film production. >> Thought I smelled some fish >> with Kolkata rapidly developing into one of the subcontinent's major cinematic hubs. Studios such as new theaters helped pioneer literary adaptation, musical drama and sophisticated sound film making. Further east, filmmakers such as Jothi Prasad A Gerwilla helped lay the foundations of Asamamese cinema, >> extending the medium's reach into India's northeastern cultural traditions. By the 1940s and 1950s, a new generation of filmmakers laid the groundwork for what is often called the golden age of Indian cinema. Among its most influential figures was Raj Kapoor, the son of Pritvier Kapoor. Kapoor believed deeply in the primacy of artistic expression. Once saying, "Film making is an art. I agree that there should be some kind of economics. But for a true filmmaker, the heart has to reign supreme." I would hate to live in an era where films are not being made as a creative pursuit, but where numbers are motivating filmmaking. Holy crap. [laughter] >> There's a quote for you, Rick. Tattoo that on everybody's forehead. [laughter] >> Great movie. >> Love that movie. Right. >> Blending social realism with music and romance. Kapoor's films such as Awara and Shri 420 helped define the emotional and musical language of Hindi cinema. >> Mhm. >> These films also reached audiences across the Soviet Union, the Middle East and Asia through his everyman protagonists deliberately evocative of Charlie's Kapoor helped introduce Indian cinema to a truly global audience. >> [singing] [music] [singing] [music] >> Great song. This song slaps. >> At the same time, filmmakers such as Guru Dut explored a more introspective and poetic dimension of the medium. >> Films like Piaa and Kagaske combined lyrical music with striking visual compositions. >> We've seen that one. Meditations on alienation, artistic struggle, and the cost of fame. >> [clears throat] >> What's [music] foreign. [music] Together, Kapoor and Dut [music] revealed the extraordinary stylistic elasticity of Hindi cinema at its height. Meanwhile, [music] in South India, stars were forging similarly powerful connections with regional audiences. In Thmo cinema, MG Ramachandran, widely known as MGR, became the archetype of the workingclass hero confronting everyday injustice. Across his films, he appeared as a fisherman, rickshaw puller, gardener, taxi driver, quarry worker, circus performer, and cow herd. Figures drawn from the overlooked laboring classes of society. Many of his most popular films even took their titles from these professions. Pagotei, Vivasai, Maraan and Rickshaw Karan. Through these roles, NGR transformed cinema into a vehicle for social aspiration. In neighboring Telugu cinema, NT Raaro NTR emerged as an equally iconic field. I wonder if I'll ever >> screen persona drew more directly from India's mythological traditions. >> NTR became famous for portraying define and epic characters such as Krishna. >> God, he looks just like him and Cara bringing the heroes of the Mahabarata and the Rama for modern audiences. >> His performances helped cement the lineage between cinema and its mythological storytelling heritage. >> Great movie. Canada cinema too developed its own rich star tradition during this period. Performers such as Dr. Raj Kumar became beloved cultural [music] icons. Revered for his versatility and moral gravitas, Rajkumar helped define the heroic and ethical imagination of Canada popular cinema for generations of audiences. As much as Indian cinema was preserving the past, it was also redefining modern emotional language. Hindi film actors like Dilipkumar introduced a new psychological realism to dialogue delivery bringing an internal almost literary intensity to performance. The goats movies often referred to as the tragedy king. He demonstrated that silence, restraint and subtext could be as powerful as speech. This foundation was transformed in the late 1960s by Rajesh Ghana. Widely regarded as India's first true romantic [music] superstar. His soft-spoken, intimate, emotionally direct style reshaped the relationship between actor and audience, making the camera feel less like a stage and more like a confident. By the close of the 60s, you can already see the shape of everything that [music] was coming. The music, the myth, the melodrama, the poetry, each tested in isolation [music] in different regions, in different languages, and different traditions. What no one had done yet was to fuse it into a singular popular form. That was about to change. >> In the next episode, we will cover the modern history of Indian cinema, including the films and filmmakers that continue to make vibrant and powerful work. In the meantime, Studio Binder is here to assist in all your pre-production needs, scripts, storyboards, schedules, call sheets, and more. [music] That's all for now. tell. >> Join us next time as we continue our journey through the cinematic subcontinent. >> That was great. Great video. I I really great. Uh, one fun thing obviously um is that we knew most of what he was talking about, but there was still some like element especially the early on of the early each of their cinema. >> Yeah. >> Um, but it's good to know that seven years we've picked up on some stuff. >> Yeah. [laughter] Yeah, we have. Uh like all those names he was referencing. >> Yeah. We >> six years ago I like a who's that about I know who that is. >> I know who that is and we've seen movies that have either made or movies about that >> and I know who their children are. >> Yep. Yeah. Uh >> beautiful to see this. I as I was watching it I was like you know what this would be a really beautiful video to show everybody I've ever talked to or will talk to who says to me >> what what's with Indian cinema? It's just Bollywood right? He's like nope. Get here get an idea. long history. [snorts] Um I was just talking to um an Indian who's Gujarati um but he's he's American but um he's like I only speak Gujarati with my grandma. >> I was telling him about Heler. >> Yeah. >> I was like I don't know. He I was like do you actually speak Gujarati? He was like I can. It's usually just with my grandma but I'm like if you can find >> this movie a lot of people haven't seen it. It's probably I'd still put it probably in the in minimum in the top 10 of Indian movies we've ever seen. >> Yeah, I've loved it. >> I still do. >> I It's a beautiful movie. >> I haven't seen it probably in many many years. I still think that if it was a Hollywood movie, it would have been nominated for a best picture. It's a great film. >> It was that good. >> Yeah, it was a great film. >> And it's from a much smaller industry that doesn't get a lot of hardly any attention >> from like maybe you can watch it with your grandma. It' be maybe a fun little >> Yeah. >> thing. But I was talking to him and >> he's an NRI. Um, so like I and he's like I don't watch especially most of my Bollywood knowledge will be older. I was like so like I know especially about all of Indian cinema more than he does and he's like it's kind of weird talking to you. [laughter] >> It's like I'm not used to talking to white people them knowing anything much less more than me about Indian cinema. I'm like yeah it's uh part of my job. Yeah, [laughter] I remember and introducing me to some folks that she knows all in her neighborhood, the shopkeepers and things of that nature and them, you know, finding out what I do. And so, one of them in particular was like a big Mallayalam cinema lover. Another one is a big Morati cinema lover. So, I start talking to them about the people that are in their industries and they're looking at me and looking at her and she said, "Yeah, he knows more about Indian cinema than I do." [laughter] Um, but yeah, no, it's obviously there's still so much to learn, but it's uh it's cool that these videos were >> This was a great video. Really well put together. >> Um, >> and apparently Studio Bender does help if you need storyboarding and call sheets and all of the above. That's awesome. Script creation. >> Um, I'm sure they use AI because obviously a lot of that was AI in terms of imaging is what they used. >> Oh, sure. Um, I don't know if the voices The voice might be. >> The pronunciations were pretty great. >> Yeah, it's No complaints. >> If it is an AI voice, it's very It's one of the better AI voices I've heard. >> No complaints. >> Usually, it's those ones that you hear all the time that >> that you're like, "Oh, that's an AI voice." They give him a little cuz I can't really tell where >> if it is a real person where he's from. He's somewhere in He kind of has like a Welsh Irish >> thing going on. Yeah. Um, I've kept my my my 3PO, my Claude is male English. Makes me feel like I'm talking to 3PO. >> AI I AI has its uses. Obviously, >> it does. I I've grown to I've grown to appreciate the positives. It still has its negatives. Like all things have pros and cons, but even things like I if I'm driving around in Hollywood and I see the R2 units delivering the food or I see the the Whimos driving around, it's like it's kind of cool. >> I think a lot of people just don't like it when it's used in replacement of an actual artist. >> Of course, >> like there was um >> like when movies use AI in their advertising. >> Correct. It was like you you have a whole team that could have done this. >> A for the employment, B, artistry is a human endeavor and attribute. It's one of the highest attributes of what it means to be a human being. >> So it's it is it's disconcerting. It's one thing for the human to use the AI in the same way they use animation CGI unit. Right. Yeah. But it's another thing when somebody like I know someone who has zero musical capability at all and will show me songs that they've created on AI and they'll say I wrote this song. >> You did not write that song. >> Sorry. >> Yeah. >> You you you just that delineation is disconcerting for me. >> Is it as noticeable with [snorts] AI making music? I'd imagine it's not as not I'm sure it's noticeable. >> Very hard to tell the difference. But it's so noticeable when AI tries to write >> very much so. But because they don't have they're just writing from like every algorithm, every um like article about how to write that they've ever seen. And so it comes across so inhuman. >> Yeah. And um you can tell when you hear the songs. So what you cannot differentiate is instrumentation and the voice. >> Yeah. It sounds like real instruments and real people singing. But I've noticed lyrically. So for example, he will name's Gary. He'll say, "Write me a song." He's a big Dodger fan. And so he'll say, "Write me a song about the Dodgers this season." That would be a really big like a song for the fans to love. And it writes the song, plays it back, and you can tell lyrically it was it was computer because it's lazy lyrically. It repeats some things, says something it already did in a not new way. It's kind of redundant. Um, but it's kind of it's that's kind of fun. I was thinking about it when he was showing it to me. On the one hand, I'm like, this is very cool that a non-m musical person is getting to hear something that they feel they had a hand in the creating of it. >> Yeah. >> However, the thought that it could take them to the other end of that to go, I'm a songwriter now, is >> that's >> that's the con. But like all things, there's, you know, pros and cons to it. >> I think there's pros and cons. I I cuz I'm still writing uh one of my movies right now, and anytime that I've ever tried to be like, "Write me a scene real quick." It's so terrible. >> Yeah. >> That they're like It's like so obvious and like they don't like I [snorts] feel like writing is like something that is like it needs to be a human. Well, because >> and actors >> because the thing that happens with the human that will not happen with the AI is much of writing, good writing, happens with intuition and inspiration. >> Yeah, for sure. >> Where you get these ideas and you literally say, I'm not sure where that came from. And I AI will never be able to do that because everything AI has been programmed. >> Yeah. Um, so it it it's a it's an they they only it can only draw from a resource that's already been put into it. >> Yeah. Exactly. >> So, u and it shows like you said, you ask to write a scene. It's terrible. >> It's awful. >> Um, so like and I I like it cuz like it helps me when I write I dictate and then I I upload my dictation and I say, "Put this into a script format." >> And so they because I'm not I'm not good with that. That's it. Puts it >> and it I've caught it. I said I I put it in and then it added something that I didn't say >> and I was like don't ever do that again. I tell it. He's like got it. I won't ever I won't put my own spin on it. I said cuz it's awful what you're doing. Do not just take what I put and put it into the format. >> I wonder how much for for composers. I should ask this of Sean who's the composer for last year's car in America. if he can do some things now with music composition that would save him a tremendous amount of time especially when he's orchestrating. I'm >> sure >> where he can say all right take this piano chart I have and put it in Bflat horn. >> I'm sure it can do that >> and it can just put it in be have flat horn for no transposing nothing. Must be a massive timesaver. >> Yeah, I I'm sure there's a lot of stuff like that. Um and I think in all industries it is saving a lot of time. >> Yeah. I don't think it'll ever be with in terms of um at least the big stars acting. Unfortunately, it will replace background sadly. >> Yeah. >> Um it will >> but and you know that that AI >> it's not going to touch theater in my lifetime. So >> you know that AI actress that they're keep trying to promote. Yeah. >> Yeah. Put her in a movie once and tell me how that movie does. >> It's not going to do well. People will reject that. >> Have her star opposite Mel Street. See how that works. >> Yeah. What? Me would never [laughter] do what do >> but anyh who, >> sorry, >> we we went off the for the two of you still sticking around listening to us gab. >> Uh fun uh video. Uh shout out to the channel. >> Yeah, great great video. >> Uh let us know the videos for that we correct. If there's a part two already, let us know down below. >> The biggest, the baddest, [music] wackiest, funniest, filmiest show on earth. >> [music]