The actual Extremely Cool Korean Films and also the Northeast Indians.

 I have a confession to make. I am dependent on Korean movies. So can be thousands in Mizoram, Manipur. Well basically the whole of Northeast India. I have heard it is more so in countries like Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, China, Taiwan, Philippines, etc.

It has been sometime now since I watched my first Korean movie - it absolutely was My Sassy Girl. (Incidentally, My Sassy Girl was the most popular and exportable Korean film in the real history Korean film industry based on Wikipedia. So popular so it outsold The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter which ran at the same time. Dramacool It sold 4,852,845 tickets!) That was around 2 yrs ago. Right now I have watched scores of these - Windstruck, Sex is Zero (Korean version of American Pie?), My Wife is really a Gangster 1, 2 & 3, The Classic, Daisy, A Moment to Remember, Joint Security Area, My Little Bride, A Dirty Carnival, You're my Sunshine, Silmido, etc to name but a couple of!

I am completely totally hooked!

Each time a friend first invited me to watch My Sassy Girl I was frankly unsure if I'd enjoy it. Nevertheless the spunky, don't-care-a-damn-tomboy heroine because movie made me fall deeply in love with Korean movies (and soaps even!). It is not particularly surprising to me that I fell deeply in love with Korean movies considering the truth that I love French movies. Korean movies have the same treatment of these subjects that way of French movies. I regularly watch TV5 French movies and Arirang TV whenever my cableguy allows me! Needless to say different genre of movies give you a different perspective on Korean movies. I believe comedy is where Korean movies are the best.

Now the Korean movies and soaps, as I have said, are extremely popular in the Northeastern states of India. Even in New Delhi there's a movie library or two where you are able to get Korean movies. You can be sure I am a regular! In a more severe note, the question is why... why do the northeasterners love Korean movies?? Even after decades of Hindustanization with Bollywood, Hindi lessons and Indian politics are we somewhat looking for HOME!

It is great to see one of your personal (read chinkies?) on the screen after so many decades of it being filled by the Amitabhs and the Khans and the Roshans of Bollywood. Korean dramas are like a breath of outdoors after so much stale Bollywood movies which I seldom watch with the exception of Ram Gopal Verma movies. The intricate plots of twists and turns and a lot more urbane emotions are what attracted me to Korean and French movies. Maybe, just may be, race comes with a part here. Being racially similar, our habits and cultural nuances are so similar! Their body language and facial expressions are so similar to our expressions. The rather alien Punjabi or Bihari nuances of Bollywood deters me from so many good movies!

Korean movies are also technically superior to Bollywood movies and will even contend with Hollywood movies. Awards and recognition even yet in the Cannes Film Festival are becoming an annual occurrence for the Korean film industry. In fact Hollywood biggies Dreamworks has paid $2 million (US) for a remake of the 2003 suspense thriller Janghwa, Hongryeon (A Tale of Two Sisters) compare that to $1 million (US) covered the best to remake the Japanese movie The Ring.

It is true that people, Northeasterners, love everything that is new to our culture unlike our mainland Indians. We actually welcome change and changed we are to an extent. We effortlessly copy the western style of dressing jeans, T-shirts and et al. That could be another reason for the recent addiction with Korean movies. But somehow I doubt that it's a driving thing like teenage love affair. It offers cultural affinity overtones written all over it. Bollywood must counter this onslaught of Korean movies with increased Chak De characters! It has already lost much audience to Korean film industry.

A few weeks back while having a chit-chat about our lives in New Delhi - the awkward stares, the down right patronising calling of names and the abuses in workplaces - with a buddy of mine he remarked,"Are we in the wrong country?" ;."Can you be happy if you are treated like a guest in your own country?" asks one of many two Northeast characters in Chak De India. In terms of me it is bearable with the help of movies like My Sassy Girl and such from our kin Korean film industry. Laugh your heart out and forget the troubles of this country until, needless to say, Chak De India has bigger roles for Northeasterners!

Consider some of the Major 20 Animated Cartoons out of them all? What exactly Manufactured These individuals Delicious?

 Who said cartoons are for the young? The effects and technology that switches into making a high animated movie are nothing lacking brilliant! How could you not appreciate that?

The most truly effective 20 animated cartoons ever are based on revenue, how much they gross. The next list has collectively earned a complete greater than USD200 million - but what is it about animated cartoons that attracts viewers and fills movie theaters? The next titles may provide you with a hint.

1. Shrek 2
2. Finding Nemo
3. The Lion King
4. Shrek the Third
5. Shrek
6. The Incredibles
7. Monsters, Inc
8. Toy Story 2
9. Cars
10. Aladdin
11. Ratatouille
12. Happy Feet
13. Ice Age: Meltdown
14. Madagascar
15. Toy Story
16. The Simpsons
17. The Polar Express
18. Ice Age
19. Beauty and the Beast
20. Tarzan

Of course the advent of 3D computer software has brought animated characters to 'life', so to speak. Viewers cannot help but be enthralled at the realistic features, character traits and movements. Teamed with whacky objects that amazing things, incredible special effects and backgrounds - these are one of the reasons these animated cartoons are very popular.Mangabudy

People also love to laugh and be entertained - animated cartoons are made to do exactly that, make people laugh and evoke emotions, so a good storyline is essential. Nobody desires to see an animated cartoon movie set around a dramatic storyline. Characters must certanly be fun, whacky, lovable and endearing, which many of these are. Backgrounds are beautifully illustrated and objects move and do silly things, telling their particular story and in the process entertain around the characters do. Additionally it helps to possess a common actor as the voice and personality behind the smoothness - someone the audience can identify with and almost without exception all the top 20 frequently have a lot more than one.

Yet without technology and some brilliant and talented people, this all wouldn't be possible. Bringing a drawing to lifelike proportions and allowing it tell an account is nothing lacking miraculous. With the help of sophisticated software packages and teams of highly talented people who possess colossal ideas and fantastic imaginations, animated cartoons as sophisticated even as we see today, wouldn't be possible.

Next time you think a cartoon is for children only, think again. Treat yourself to one hour or two of amazing special effects, a good storyline and all the huge benefits technology and computers will bring, and give credit where it is definitely due.