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Just to increase the activity and honour senior editors of this project, I have a proposal of awarding a barnstar on the lines of "Dadasaheb Palke Award" to them. — Vensatry (Ping me) 13:49, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
Just a small notice so that people don't delete the article again: Dhoom 3 has begun filming and is therefore officially in production, meaning that it is worthy of having its own article right now. I have removed the redirect and even started work on it. Help is, as usual, much welcomed :D. Cheers. ~*~ Ankit Bhatt~*~ 09:41, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi all. I am relatively new to editing. I created an article in userspace for a Hindi film after I noticed that one didn't exist while browsing : User:AnshumanF/Abdullah (1980 film). I am not entirely sure if the talk page here is the right space to ask for feedback, but it would be lovely if more experienced editors could take a look at this. Thanks. AnshumanF ( talk) 15:21, 10 June 2012 (UTC)
The article Sivaji Ganesan well looks like a GA. But at the same time, competing actors like Gemini Ganesan and MGR, I hope to see them equally good! Someone pls look at Geminiganesan article and pls see the edit history, howz the work? U think it can improve? Kailash29792 ( talk) 12:55, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
I think Kahaani passed the GA nomination! In fact, I would rate it as "best written". But howcome it has been rated as "B-class" in the above listing? Pls update. Same applies for Ra.One which has been labelled as a GA, though it looks like an FA. Kailash29792 ( talk) 06:32, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
I really think that Kamal Haasan being a leading actor in Indian cinema, articles on his films need expansion. can anyone pls view the articles Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu, Unnaipol Oruvan and Manmadhan Ambu? They should really improve I think. Kailash29792 ( talk)`
Answer my question! Kailash29792 ( talk) 04:45, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
I would like to know if http://www.mouthshut.com is a reliable source. Because they provide many film reviews, (even for oldies) which may seem to be the only existing reviews for such films. Kailash29792 ( talk) 03:15, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
Why Best supporting actor/actress awards are taken into consideration for calculating superlatives in Best Actor and Best Actress pages respectively. — Vensatry (Ping me) 14:10, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
I have put forth a request at Signpost concerning the Indian Cinema task force's centenary year plans. You can see the suggestion here. Do have a look and put your thoughts here about the move. ~*~ Ankit Bhatt~*~ 08:12, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
On 3rd May 2013,
Raja Harishchandra the first full-length Indian feature film, would complete 100 years of release. The year would be observed as the centenary year of Indian Cinema. I am expecting some celebrations or events to happen on this occasion. (Govt
has promised few things.)
We, at Wikipedia could also do somethings great on this project. Making our works reach the main page could be one such activity. As we celebrate full year, we don't have to aim any particular date. I am posting this almost a year beforehand as this would require quite a lot of efforts from all.
Please add other articles that you feel might have good chance. Other suggestion, besides Project Aim Main Page are needed and hence welcome.
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AnimeshKulkarni (
talk)
12:49, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
Excellent proposal! We should work towards this. While Ra.One may become an FA, I suspect Ilayiaraja won't be there. There are other articles which can potentially become FA by then, such as Chak De India, Rang De Basanti and Kahaani. We should aim for a main page on that day.-- Dwaipayan ( talk) 13:20, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
Excellent idea. I was wondering, why not first and foremost work on Raja Harishchandra and make it an FA? Let's make that our top COTM. Other than that, there are numerous possibilities, but I feel that our aim (as part of this centenary) should be the improvement of quality of all Indian cinema articles; concentrating on a few to get to GA/FA status will be a parallel aim. How's that? ~*~ Ankit Bhatt~*~ 11:55, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
Excellent idea. Though not invited, I would still like to voice out my opinion on this matter. I think apart from all the other articles discussed above, we should try and get some of the Actors and Actresses articles up to FA status (GA atleast). IMO the top 5 living actors: Amitabh Bachchan, Dilip Kumar, The Khan Trio ( Aamir Khan, Shahrukh Khan and Salman Khan) should feature on Main page. Though I acknowledge the immense contributions and super-stardom of Raj Kapoor, Sanjeev Kumar, Dharmendra, Manoj Kumar, Rajesh Khanna, Dev Anand, Shammi Kapoor and so on, I fear if we could get much sources on these actors since not much is talked about or published on these stars when compared to the top 5 I listed. Currently of these only Amitabh's and Shahrukh's article are the nearest GA candidates and all others have to be extensively worked on. Among the actresses, I don't care much since none of them have really made a huge impact in this male dominated industry except the likes of Shabana Azmi, Madhuri Dixit, Rekha,.. (Ohh there are plenty Waheeda Rehman, Asha Parekh and so on..). 'P.S: I'm not much into Regional Cinema and hence I could list only Bollywood names since my knowledge is only up to that.-- Msrag ( talk) 14:31, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
I was wondering why certain articles like Enthiran have not been talked about. That, at least to me, looks like a very potent future FA. ~*~ Ankit Bhatt~*~ 17:30, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
Sorry for the late rely, was damn busy yesterday. One thing I could see is that all are supporting Raja Harishchandra to be a FA, so that it appears on the main page on its 100th anniversary. It would be great if Vensatry puts a mail in the Indian and English Wikiproject India mailing lists so that the discussion and the report reaches maximum. It will help us by bringing quality more and more editors. We might also see alot of admins there who will help us to feature it on the main page on the mentioned date. -- ♪Karthik♫ ♪Nadar♫ 08:51, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
Well, I feel that Pather Panchali should be the best article to consider. The article is already well written, and with some more work we can definitely get it to that level. Smarojit ( talk) 11:53, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
IMHO, lets not make any article GA/FA just because there are lots of sources available on the net!! If film/personality is going to represent Indian cinema, it has to be good. I would not prefer having F/GA status for Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... or Jeans than Piravi, Akaler Shandhaney or Do Aankhen Barah Haath and Umbartha, for that matter. Thanks. - Vivvt Talk 18:19, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
Ok. List is growing. Let's make some concrete plans. I am taking up the responsibility for the article Mother India. It has tremendous scope to become a featured article. I am in the process of obtaining two important books on/about the film. The article may need structural changes in places. We have time. IMO, 6 months would be a practical deadline for it. I would urge other users to take up some articles (individually or in groups). Kahaani is a nice example of collaboration that is currently taking place. That could be an FA as well in 6-8 months, even earlier. Any thoughts or plans?-- Dwaipayan ( talk) 15:56, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
Iti Mrinalini has also kick-started. I'm already cooped up with two articles now, but I shall try my best to help out on Mrinalini whenever possible. ~*~ Ankit Bhatt~*~ 09:10, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
59th National Film Awards is up for Peer Review. All are requested to help in it. We will be taking up the 58th article only after this list becomes FL. (Would save time by avoiding unnecessary edits.) §§ AnimeshKulkarni ( talk) 10:49, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi All, Kahaani is up for Peer Review. All are requested to help expand/improve/cleanup the article to make it a possible FA. Thanks ...Msrag talk2me 05:58, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
This list is strictly article-related; please do not add DYK or ITN candidates here. Please list the articles alphabetically, and italicize those entries which are for films. All suggestions are welcome, but they could ideally be discussed upon in the above portion before placing here.
Participants are requested to add new entries to this sub page.
After ignoring and warning Ghajinidetails a number of times, I don't think we are at a situation to adjust anymore. His editing is getting troublesome, and his edit summaries are repetitive and often misleading. In response, he is totally non-communicative and has not bothered to act upon any of the problems which have been pointed out. Seeing his name and his edit history, this user is close to INCINE, so I thought of discussing possible action here. ~*~ Ankit Bhatt~*~ 11:59, 23 June 2012 (UTC)
I see that articles have been created for many relatively new awards for South Indian industries and wonder whether they are notable enough and deserve to have separate articles. Such awards include the Norway Tamil Film Festival Awards, Edison Awards (India) and Big FM Tamil Entertainment Awards in Tamil. Also the Suvarna Film Awards and Udaya Film Awards in Kannada and the Vanitha Film Awards and Mathrubhumi Film Awards in Malayalam, but I can't comment much about the other South Indian industries. The most recent inclusion has been the South Indian International Movie Awards, probably also the most notable one, that may get established in a few years. So which of these are notable that can be included in filmographies and which are not? Johannes003 ( talk) 09:35, 23 June 2012 (UTC)
Hello, i would like to point that there is a bit of a confusion about whether Gangs of Wasseypur should have two different articles or not.As both movies were shot at the same time,it is being argued that ,that can be discussed in a sub-section of "release" section. Gangs of Wasseypurand Talk:Gangs of Wasseypur. Ayanosh ( talk) 15:40, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
Do we consider TOI as a reliable source? I believe yes. Anon cited this on the Roja article. Going by the reliability norms, we should have no concerns for its inclusion. But then I doubt the reliability for the language being used in the article. It also mentions nothing more than published date. What say? - Vivvt Talk 18:19, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
How about looking at this specific issue with a different perspective? Do any other news sources refer to it? If not then it could be argued that it is trivial/non notable ... and if they do (& are not just rehashing the same agency report) then we perhaps could cite them instead or as well as TOI. There is also WP:CITEKILL to consider, of course. - Sitush ( talk) 07:55, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
The latest trend in the industry has been making "bilingual films", shooting a film in two languages simultaneously. It will be (more or less) the same film shot twice in different languages with a slightly different cast. But how to deal with these bilingual films? Create separate articles for each version? I'm strictly against this idea as it will be plain redundant but few editors have been doing exactly that. I feel if it's the same film with the same content one article would be sufficient. But then again if the films have different titles (like the recent Eega in Telugu and Naan Ee in Tamil), which title should be chosen as the page name? With many more upcoming films supposedly being bilingual films (though I suspect that most of these so called bilingual films are only being dubbed into the other language!), this might present us with a problem. Johannes003 ( talk) 15:30, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
For a while now, I have been thinking of adding other awards (wins and nominations) to the filmographies of Bollywood actors – similar to that of their Hollywood colleagues. However, before doing so, I would prefer making a list of the so-called "notable" awards; by doing so it would restrict the awards we add, as well as eliminate the unnecessary debate later on when people add a bunch of other awards. To begin with, we have already included the Filmfare Awards and the National Film Awards as both of them are unanimously the oldest and most prestigious award ceremonies in India. In addition to that, I would also consider the following five as popular, annual, notable award ceremonies; the awards are listed in alphabetical order:
While looking through several books, such as this, it states that "one indication of the Bollywoodization of television is the amount of airtime that television networks tend to give to telecasting annual film awards - which have evolved into a mini industry." The book refers to the ZCA as "a major showcase for Indian cinema" and the IIFA as the "so-called Bollywood Oscars". This book says: "Some of the more popular [awards] include the Filmfare Awards, the ZCA, the Stardust Awards, the Indian government-sponsored NFA, and the IIFA awards". In addition to these sources, Bollywood Hungama, a popular website portal also lists the following five awards apart from other two awards which are no longer held. Leave me your thoughts! -- Bollywood Dreamz talk 01:39, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
Comment to Bollywood Dreamz As of now there is no consensus to add those awards. You cannot assume that every other editor is fine with adding these awards since no one commented anymore. — Vensatry (Ping me) 13:46, 15 June 2012 (UTC)
I'm really keen on adding those awards to the filmographies of actors. If you take a look at the pages of Hollywood actors, you notice that each and every single award is listed. I don't see why it would be a problem to list the awards I mentioned above - these awards are notable enough and do deserve a mention as well. -- Bollywood Dreamz talk 03:03, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
I have observed that there are several articles created for Indian film songs. These can be seen under Category:Songs by language, Category:Indian songs, Category:Hindi songs, Category:Tamil songs etc. Most of them are not notable enough and qualify for AfD under WP:NSONGS. Please express your opinion here so that article creation can be managed well for songs. IMO, redirect is not the solution. - Vivvt Talk 17:25, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
Songs like Hai Ye Maya and Dushman Mera (Don 2 song) certainly needs to be deleted. I dont get these points here.. What do I get to know reading the two articles of those songs..? Where is the notability and success factors mentioned in the articles..? Hardly remember any radio stations playing those numbers as frequently as "Ooh la la" from TDP. Anyways those pages just says ABC song is sung by XYZ and written by MNO which could've been mentioned in the soundtrack page itself. Why a separate article for that? BTW, I think "Ooh la la" should be improved and supported for a separate article though I agree the current state of the article is not favorable. ...Msrag talk2me 08:05, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
A song article should not exist just because a couple of people think it was a hit. Noted charts, like the different FM's should have mentioned the song significantly in their own lists and the songs should have received sufficient critical notice to establish notability. Like it has been said, an article, just to say that a song was sung by XXX and composed by YYY is purely meaningless and provokes other editors to create articles for the music they find "great". Now that several sites have started giving out music reviews, in which each song is separately discussed, an editor can just start an article, write a section named critical response and quote large amounts of text, making others feel that the song has to stay. Moving that aside, it is unfortunate that Indian songs have little online statistical publishing to verify their significance. One should also take into account that songs like Teri Meri and Chammak Challo broke records upon release, like the YouTube hits. Perhaps, we should restrict the criterion to create pages for single track release, record-breaking response verified by sources, and those which have won multiple awards. Secret of success ( talk) 12:57, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
How much so ever you discuss here or vote delete in AfDs, the closing admin will come and redirect them because
redirects are cheap. This has recently happened with almost all songs that were AfDed.
Aaya Tere Dar Par,
Aisa Des Hai Mera,
Do Pal,
Hum To Bhai Jaise,
Main Yahan Hoon and
Yeh Hum Aa Gaye Hain Kahan were redirected to
Veer-Zaara#Music.
Dekho Na and
Chanda Chamke were redirected to
Fanaa (film).
Hui Main Parineeta,
Kasto Mazza and
Soona Man Ka Aangan were redirected to
Parineeta (2005 film).
Kaisi Paheli Zindagani on the other hand
was deleted as it was closed by Admin
User:The Bushranger and not Admin
User:Crisco 1492.
Should we infer that we can make redirects of possibly all Indian songs? They are cheap after all.
Funny thing to note,
Rohit Mehra is also now redirected to
Krrish (film series). On similar lines one could make a redirect
Baburao Ganpatrao Apte to
Hera Pheri (2000 film) and
Laxmi Godbole to
Chachi 420.
And why stop there? We could also prepare redirects for famous dialogues like
Mooche ho to Nathulal jaise to
Sharaabi and
Ki...Ki...Ki...Kiran to
Darr. §§
AnimeshKulkarni (
talk)
07:38, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
In the Afd Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Paisa paisa User:MichaelQSchmidt suggests that a disambiguation article like User:MichaelQSchmidt/Paisa Paisa should be prepared for this song. I am against it as this would open opportunities for many more songs which share same titles or first few words. We know there could be many songs that start with same/similar wordings. Although the current decision is only for this particular song, it will be cited as precedence for future. Though there is huge essay on how other stuff exists, why let something like this happen in the very first place. Hence thought of dropping a note here to bring this to your attention. §§ AnimeshKulkarni ( talk) 12:45, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
In the recently held 59th Filmfare Awards South ceremony, Vikram was honoured with a Critics Award for Best Actor for his work in a Tamil film. The award category is the first of its kind in Southern FF awards. Some users come to a conclusion that it's the same as Filmfare Special Award – South and keep updating related articles. Just like the "Critics award for best performance" for Bollywood films, this cat would've been introduced for Southern FF awards. — Vensatry (Ping me) 17:51, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
I've made some changes to the design of the main page. Members are free to discuss changes and propose new designs. Feel free to revert, if the design is not satisfactory. Thanks! — Vensatry (Ping me) 16:14, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi WikiProject Film/Indian cinema task force. I notice that the articles Ezhil, Karu Pazhaniappan, Seeman (director), Selva (director), Siva (director), Suresh Krishna (director), S. J. Surya, Bhaskar (director), Chandra Sekhar Yeleti, K. Vijaya Bhaskar, Pasupuleti Krishna Vamsi, Raghava Lawrence, Ravi Babu and Trivikram Srinivas contain embedded "filmography" navboxes, added by an IP editor during the past month, which result in the articles being incorrectly included in Category:Indian film director navigational boxes (and some also in Category:Tamil film director navigational boxes). Would anyone object to me converting these embedded navboxes into proper navbox templates, and then transcluding the templates into the relevant film articles (as well as back into the article about the director, of course)? It seems like a no-brainer to me, but I thought I'd ask just in case there had been a previous decision that these directors didn't warrant their own templates, or something like that. Thanks. DH85868993 ( talk) 05:11, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
FYI, I have nominated Template:Chiranjeevi for deletion. Please express any views you may have on the matter at the deletion discussion. Thanks. DH85868993 ( talk) 05:19, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
Indian cinema has reached a level where it potentially depends on speculation and gossip to popularize it further. These are purely not encyclopedic in any manner, however, it may not appear so to a new reader, as there are several articles at the moment having sentences like "XXX was rumored to play a role in a film, (s)he dismissed it later." I happened to find many editors at the moment in WikiProject Film discouraging this, hence, it would serve a purpose, if editors here to pursue their thoughts on the issue. Secret of success ( talk) 15:11, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
There is a discussion at Talk:Ninne Pelladata about the correct spelling of the film's name. Your input would be appreciated. Thanks. DH85868993 ( talk) 22:19, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
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Guys I have removed this barnstar from main page of Wikipedia:WikiProject Film/Indian cinema task force, as we already have enough of the north south propaganda by the politicians, lets keep this away from wikipedia, at least. Please use an Indian Cinema barnstar wherever applicable. -- DBig Xray 10:41, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
Clarify: Good Heavens ! Apologies if I was not clear enough. As Ncmvocalist has already said above, Of course I am not trying to start any kind of fight here, in fact I am trying to remove the misunderstanding that will arise seeing this, I know a mere rename of this barnstar is not going to work, That is why I proposed doing away with this barnstar and using either An Template:Indian Cinema Barnstar or an Industry specific barnstar. -- DBig Xray 17:00, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
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The Indian Cinema Barnstar
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After reading the above discussion I have created the Template:Indian Cinema Barnstar barnstar, comments please-- DBig Xray 17:16, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
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Having separate barnstars for Bollywood, Telugu, Bengali and Bhojpuri cinema might reduce the "north south propaganda", but it is certainly not going to reduce regionalism. I have to agree with SpacemanSpiff here, lets replace all the regional barnstars with an Indian cinema barnstar. CorrectKnowledge ( talk) 00:13, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
(Invited by
DBigXray and Interested to butt in) Hello people..I have created a few barnstar designs for Indian Cinema Barnstars.Please leave your comments.
Cheers,
TheStrike
Σagle
09:44, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
Note Option 4 is eliminated.
TheStrike
Σagle
14:32, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
Which option are you likely to support?
There is no special image that can be used in Tamil Cinema, Bhojpuri Cinema etc so I have used the image from above. As in the above section the consensus for Image is image 3 so in the
Template:Indian Cinema Barnstar I have added a parameter |cinema
for a special usage. eg. below --
DBig
Xray
17:09, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
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Tho phir sab industries me pharak kya padta hai Then what would be the difference between all the industries.If we wish to use a unified star for all...then that's it.....why do we have to use separate names of barnstars.....criticisms welcome :)
TheStrike
Σagle
15:44, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
The WikiProject Report would like to focus on the Indian Cinema Task Force for a Signpost article. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Multiple editors will have an opportunity to respond to the interview questions, so be sure to sign your answers. If you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Have a great day. - Mabeenot ( talk) 16:44, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
Hello. There is currently an editor attempting to make changes to the lead section of Taare Zameen Par regarding whether the English translation of the title is included, as well as the placement of the international DVD film title. I've tried opening a dialogue, but the editor refuses to discuss the matter. I don't want to start an edit war, so his version is currently up at the moment. Since the article is one of the two film FA's within this task force, and because the changes could affect the format of other Bollywood lead sections, I thought it would be best to see if anybody in the task force would like to contribute to the discussion that I opened on the film's talk page ( Talk:Taare Zameen Par#Lead section) to see what everyone thought would be the best way to present it. Thanks. Ω pho is 23:30, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Help desk#wish to remove all the deadlinks related to my site on Wikipedia. how can i do it? ( permanent link). There are currently 272 links to the site at http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Special:LinkSearch&limit=500&offset=0&target=http%3A%2F%2F*.chakpak.com. Many of them are from articles. PrimeHunter ( talk) 01:01, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
While the use of reliable aggregator sites is accepted per WP:AGG to measure the critical response of a movie, the reliability of such sites are often under question and sometimes removed by some of the editors. In this view it is essential to frame a policy and determine reliability of the following Indian websites which are generally used as aggregators:
I would request all to share their views. Amartyabag TALK2ME 04:01, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
review gang looks more credible. It lists the critic reviews. I guess many Indan movies have review aggregates in rotten tomatoes as well.-- Dwaipayan ( talk) 05:12, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
Hello,
I have started to work on categories on Commons, first with Indian and Bolloywood actresses. My objectives is to nominate a valued images for all the main actresses and actors. We already got a few (ABB, Salman Khan, Aishwarya Rai, Madhuri Dixit, Shilpa Shetty, Vidya Balan, Parvathy Omanakuttan). We need a place on Commons to discuss Indian related subjects. What do yo think? Yann ( talk) 16:17, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
Please come and participate! Yann ( talk) 15:39, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
Recently a group of articles of
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Bollywood debuts in 2010s were deleted after AfD. The information was not worth keeping on a stand-alone article as it was over-classification per me. However, the information is not all crap and can be kept in some common place in an encyclopedia.
If one happens to see the format of
2008 in film, one would find not only top grossers, but also notable events, deaths, births, etc. on these articles. On similar lines, should our articles
Bollywood films of 2008 be reformated to include events, births, deaths, debuts and be moved to
2008 in Bollywood? §§
Dharmadhyaksha§§ {
T/
C}
09:26, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
I propose redirecting and reformatting all articles (74 in number) in the Category:Lists of Bollywood films by year. The current articles in the category are titled as "Bollywood films of XXXX" (XXXX is year). Should they be moved, leaving a redirect from old name, to "XXXX in Bollywood", they fall in line with many other "XXXX in topic" format on Wikipedia. Also, this new name increases the scope of the article to include births, deaths, special events, award ceremonies, debuts, etc. of that year on same page. §§ Dharmadhyaksha§§ { T/ C} 09:40, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
I created most of the Indian and world films lists, yes. 1973 in Bollywood etc would be cool if they were written about as articles and then the list of films and birth/deaths and award. Bollywood films of 1950 I think I started doing something to that effect. Feel free to move, so long as they remain consistent and properly linked in existing templates.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 12:39, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
A similar discussion was started at Talk:Bengali_films_of_2012#Requested_move. I put a link to here on that page. BollyJeff | talk 19:31, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
Hello friends, I've nominated Portal:Bollywood for featured status. This is the only portal covered by this task force and I expect your comments to improve it. Please take a little time and review it. Here's a nomination page, thanks. — Bill william compton Talk 15:52, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi guys, I have a question. I apologize if I am wrong, since I'm new. :) Are the importance ratings for actors going to be all the same? I'm not referring to the importance rating on the WP India banner, but where it says, "This article is supported by the Indian cinema workgroup (marked as ______-importance)." Because for Amitabh Bachchan, it is rated as Top-, and for Dev Anand, it is listed as High-. Shammi Kapoor is rated as High- too. Shouldn't they all be the same, since they're all actors? Red Hat On Head ( talk) 21:36, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
I just wanted to ask a question here whether upcoming actors are considered notable if there exists multiple reliable sources about them. I am struggling to save this article inspite of five references from national newspapers. -- Anbu121 ( talk me) 08:24, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
I have added a non-notable tag to the article of Vipul K Rawal who claims to be the writer of Iqbal (film). I found no credible reference of his notability. I am planning to nominate his article for deletion. Do let me know if I need to mention this article somewhere else in the Indian cinema wiki project, or this talk page was fine. Jay ( talk) 16:28, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
Guys, I am new here, however I stumbled upon this page. Actually the writer of Iqbal is Vipul K Rawal and there are numerous articles from various reliable sources attached. I noticed a few from Ecomonic Times, The Hindu and even Moser Bayer, the company that has the DVD rights of the movie have credited the movie to him. ALso, the website of Rajashree, a reputed production house who have the internet rights of Iqbal have credited the story of Iqbal to him. Saddumama ( talk) 12:48, 12 January 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Saddumama ( talk • contribs) 12:35, 12 January 2013 (UTC) As a reference I am attaching the link from the Moser Baer quiz. [2] [1] Saddumama ( talk) 12:56, 12 January 2013 (UTC) Saddumama ( talk) 12:49, 12 January 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Saddumama ( talk • contribs) 12:42, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
I feel that we need to rethink the criteria for including a language in the article Discontinued and Intermittent National Film Awards instead of having its own article. Awards for Oriya, Telugu, English and Assamese have been rather intermittent in recent years and yet they have their own articles, while languages like Punjabi, Manipuri and Konkani have been equally or more regularly awarded in recent years, and yet are on the intermittent page.
I suggest that we have a criteria like 'languages that have been awarded more than two or three times be given their own article'. The Discoverer ( talk) 07:43, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
Please refer to the pages before and after creation of "Discontinued.." page to verify the copy-paste! Again, you are more than welcome to correct the errors in the page, if you have observed any. The page creation was discussed on the talk page of this task force and then taken a decision to make a separate page. With your logic of one-missing-in-59-lets-make-it-intermittent, we will end up having every article in the intermittent page. So get the consensus on that as well so that you can move everything you wished to the intermittent page. The examples you've given here are surprisingly irrelevant to the subject!! - Vivvt • ( Talk) 17:54, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
Should the award for each language have its own article, or should a few of the articles have their own article and rest be grouped into a common article? (See preceding discussion) The Discoverer ( talk) 18:02, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
Weirdly, two television and film child actors
Kaushal Singh and
Rohan Shah have similar biographies. Their birth dates are claimed to be different, but their works are all same. Funny thing is that they both claim to have played Maddy in Disney's TV show
Ishaan. Ishaan's article however credits Shah and not Singh.
I am doubtful on Singh's biography as the July 2012 version seems to be
copy-paste work of Shah's
Jan 2012 version. I cant find any reliable sources to check which one is fake. But i think Shah is right one. Help needed. §§
Dharmadhyaksha§§ {
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05:01, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
{{
db-hoax}}
and maybe reference this discussion. —
Spaceman
Spiff
05:18, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
I am no longer interested in co-ordinating this project. With the presence of a few bad-faith people (who I thought were my good friends), I don't want to waste my time here owing to personal reasons. The project has a lot of potential editors and I think someone could perform the duties much more better than me with lot of involvement. Thanks for the support and encouragement. — Vensatry (Ping me) 13:48, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
Swayamvaram was recently nominated for GA. I read the article, it is quite well-developed, and close to GA. I can do the review, but the problem is the nominator seems to be very new, and he did not contribute to the article at all. The principal contributor (Arfaz) remains blocked. Anyone interested to take up the responsibility of responding to GA review? Someone who speaks Malayalam, or, at least, has seen the film would be a better candidate, but anyone can do it.-- Dwaipayan ( talk) 18:45, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
Priyanka Chopra peer review underway here: Wikipedia:Peer review/Priyanka Chopra/archive1. Want to apply for FAC soon. BollyJeff | talk 17:49, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
In June 2012, we had elaborate discussion on possible featured article, list drive for the centenary year. It's four months from now. Ay update on activities? The stuffs that I know are — National Film Award for Best Actress is almost at the end of the featured list candidacy, Vidya Balan became featured article (although it was not discussed in the plan as such, and has already been featured on the main page), The 59th National Film Awards failed at FLC, and Mother India although nearly ready has not been nominated yet for FAC (I plan to discuss with other collaborators of the article on a FAC soon). Any other updates?-- Dwaipayan ( talk) 05:43, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
Does anybody has book, Spirit of Lagaan by Satyajit Bhatkal? It contains lot of information on the film. I do have the book but currently not with me. Lagaan has also got good chances at FAC. - Vivvt • ( Talk) 03:44, 23 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi everyone at WikiProject India cinema!
Women's history month is around the corner, in March, and we're planning the second WikiWomen's History Month.
This event, which is organized by volunteers from the WikiWomen's Collaborative, supports improving coverage about women's history during the month of March. Events take place both offline and online. We are encouraging WikiProjects to focus on women's history related to their subject for the month of March. Ideas include:
We hope you'll participate! You can list your your project focus here, and also help improve our to-do list. Thank you for all you do for Wikipedia! SarahStierch ( talk) 21:48, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
Hello fellow friends. I need your opinions. I am currently in the process of restructuring a film article, which is the Paap (2003) film. Another Wikipedian has disagreed with me on updating the theatrical poster of the page. Previously, the article used a low-quality scan of the DVD cover. Can anyone please advise me on what to do? I thank you for your cooperation. Yours faithfully, Kotak kasut. 11:52, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
Hello. A discussion regarding the placement of English DVD titles for films released worldwide in cinemas under the foreign title has been opened at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Film#Placement of alternate titles. Any input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Ω pho is 00:42, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
Hello!
We have an article at Kaikala Satyanarayana, a veteran actor in Telugu films. There is a user User talk:Satish.kasetty who claims he is "Kasetty Sathyanarayana" also goes by screen name "Satish Kasetty", a film director. The user has been editing the articles 59th National Film Awards, Hope (2006 film) and National Film Award for Best Film on Other Social Issues.
Now the references say that the jury of 59th NFA was "K. Satyanarayana" ( ref pg 46). The director of the film Hope and winner of NFA is credited as "K. Sathyanarayana" ( ref pg 19). Both refs show images of the person, which look same to me. This person also has a website, (claimed as official owner's), at http://satishkasetty.com/.
This clearly seems to be the case where both Satyanarayanas have been mixed at some places. Also both have same initial of K. So its quite likely to happen. Now the problem here to find the right target. Should the new article on the director be at Kasetty Sathyanarayana or Satish Kasetty or what? I need help of someone who knows somewhat about the two subjects. Is the screen name popular enough to be the article name per WP:COMMONNAME? I personally have no knowledge of them. §§ Dharmadhyaksha§§ { T/ C} 04:12, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi there. After Harmeet Singh turned into a disambiguation-page, I've fixed most of the incoming links to the dab-page, but there are several Indian films which still got a link to this dab-page. I believe it is the same person, as he listed under "Cinematography" is all the articles, but I haven't fixed those links as I don't know where to link to. Could any member of this project find the correct disambiguator (perhaps Harmeet Singh (cinematographer)?), and fix the remaining incoming links to Harmeet Singh? Cheers, Mentoz86 ( talk) 09:08, 12 April 2013 (UTC)
Anyone who is able to provide insight into the reliability of reviewbol is invited to share their perspectives at Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard#Identifying_.22Reviewbol.22_as_reliable_source -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 12:18, 12 April 2013 (UTC)
Pran wins the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 2012. In the news nomination for your support. §§ Dharmadhyaksha§§ { T/ C} 12:50, 12 April 2013 (UTC)
As far as I know, ibos is not considered as a reliable source. However, I see that this is used in scholarly articles (journals) as a reference. I remember from the discussion we had regarding reliability of boxofficeindia.com, when an editor presented evidences that the website had been used in scholarly articles as references, boxofficeindia became a source that we could reliably use. Any thought on ibos?-- Dwaipayan ( talk) 15:50, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
We could use some eyes at Wikipedia:Peer review/Sholay/archive1. Thanks, BollyJeff | talk 15:49, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
Please have a look at Talk:Kati Patang and give your opinion regarding when this film was released. BollyJeff | talk 17:23, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
There are some IPs 39.32.x.x and 39.47.x.x that keep messing up articles related to Shahrukh Khan. Can anything be done? There is not much use in leaving warnings, because the IP address keeps shifting slightly. BollyJeff | talk 18:34, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
In India the production of
multilingual films is still in use, surprisingly to me as an European where it was practiced only few years in the early talkie era. During this year there are/ will be released at least 4 movies which were shot simultaneously in altered language-versions:
David (2013 Hindi film)/
David (2013 Tamil film),
Gouravam (2013 film) (Telugu/Tamil),
Zanjeer/
Toofan,
Nimirndhu Nil/
Janda Pai Kapiraju.
As there is a lemma about
multiple-language version a new section about the Indian practice of this film translating-method should be added. Unfortunately, I didn't find adequate sources in English, so I can't write it by myself.
Hoerestimmen (
talk)
23:59, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
This BLP is completely unreferenced and currently at AFD. Can editors familiar with the go-to sources for Bollywood articles help source/improve it, since the subject is obviously notable enough to have a wiki bio ? Abecedare ( talk) 17:21, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
All pages created by the relatively new and possibly-COI'd editor
Senseltd (
talk ·
contribs) need to be reviewed for notability and
WP:PRODed or
AFD'd if not notable or radically cleaned up/wikified if notable. There are so many I haven't bothered to tag them all yet.
Two exceptions One exception:
davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 18:34, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
Dear Indian cinema experts: This article is being considered for deletion, can someone please volunteer and improve it? Also a debate for deletion is going on according to which this Actor is not notable, it would be a great help if someone could find his Biography and upload an image of him. -- Foodie ( talk) 11:04, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
I have started creating the article Indian film series. Since there a lot of them I need your help in adding more series. Since there a lot of film series consisting of 2 films, my opinion is that only those film series with 3 or more films should be added (all of which have been released only). Please feel free to come and add more and do the required corrections. Once fully created, this list will be highly informative. I can add only those films in Hindi and Malayalam and that too not many. Members from other language communities are also invited. All future opinions and comments here or on my talk page only please since I would not be watching this page. - Jayadevp 13 07:19, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
This is my doubt. Is the Elements trilogy Indian or Canadian? I know that it is Indian subcontinent based but is it a Bollywood movie. For example, Slumdog Millionaire is India based but it is a Hollywood movie. My doubt is that should it be included in the List of Indian film series? If possible then direct all your comments or opinions here. - Jayadevp 13 05:16, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi WikiProject, I respectfully request some familiar eyes over at Lena (actress). There is some recent discrepancy about her relationship status. An earlier editor sourced a contribution indicating she was married, but a recent editor provided a sourced edit that suggests she was not married. She appears to be credited with the last name Abhilash. Anyhow, the subject is beyond the scope of my knowledge, and I can't read the source article. I would also like to suggest that maybe the film credit list in the article is long. Do we need to list cameo appearances? Seems WP:INDISCRIMINATE. Thank you! Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 01:27, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
Remember this discussion on the Centenary year project? We did pretty well in 2013. Here is the list of just the new FAs for this year:
I don't know how many were actually displayed on the front page, but I know that Priyanka Chopra was. BollyJeff | talk 14:16, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
I recently closed an MfD that contained a description of Choo Mantar 3D, purportedly an upcoming film. The nominator asserted it was a fake article, which was endorsed by another user. Since then, the creator has been in touch with me about trying to get it restored, arguing that it is a real film; see User talk:BDD#Untitled ( permalink). Could anyone help to verify or disprove these claims? While the user's name implies COI, I'd still feel pretty bad if I were preventing a legitimate contribution from a new user. Pinging MfD participants Bovineboy2008 and Jni in case they have anything to add. -- BDD ( talk) 21:20, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
Telugu cinema's first talkie film Bhakta Prahlada was for a very long time believed to have been released on 15 September 1931. But these recent and authentic news articles containing research by an award winning film historian prove that it was released on 6 February 1932. They are as follows:
I request someone to read them thoroughly and decide whether Bhakta Prahlada is worth moving. Kailash29792 ( talk) 05:03, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
There's a pending AfC for Tejaswini Lonari, a Hindu-language and Marathi-language actress. She's been in a few productions with Wikipedia pages (so may be notable), but I'm not familiar with the sources in Indian cinema/TV to know whether she passes the bar. Maybe somebody could take a look at sourcing & notability here? Jodi.a.schneider ( talk) 15:46, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
Dear Indian cinema experts: Can someone from this project give some advice to the creator or this submission? I have tried. Thanks! — Anne Delong ( talk) 18:17, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
Isn't enough to start a article on this title? -- Inbamkumar86 ( talk) 14:45, 19 October 2013 (UTC)
Thalapathy (2013 film), a redirect to Thalapathy (2013 film), has been nominated for deletion at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2014 April 20#Thalapathy (2013 film). It was created as a duplicate article and is the name of a song from the film it now targets, which together with a couple of other things makes me suspect that there might be some plausibility. Input from people knowledgeable about Indian cinema would be especially welcome at the discussion. Thanks, Thryduulf ( talk) 18:54, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
Hello! I recently added hundreds of Stub-Class articles to this project, because they were previously missing stub tags and/or project banners on their talk pages. However, I've also noticed that there are a large number of articles about Indian people that are tagged with the parameter |cinema=yes
. Per
WP:FILM, the Film project does not include actors, directors and filmmakers. Those people are covered by adding the parameter |filmbio-work-group=yes
to the {{
WikiProject Biography}} banner instead. This applies to all of the film task forces as well, and of the other task forces using the parameters |cinema=yes
or |film=yes
, none of them include articles about people. Therefore I just wanted to let this project know, that I plan to remove this parameter from all of the biography articles, so that the film categories will only contain articles about films.
Fortdj33 (
talk)
14:56, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
|cinema=yes
and |Indian=yes
parameters. However, the assessment page says nothing about including Indian actors, directors and filmmakers, because those articles should NOT have the {{
WikiProject Film}} banner on their talk pages, and consequently should not have the |cinema=yes
parameter on the {{
WikiProject India}} banner.
Fortdj33 (
talk)
15:38, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
|cinema=yes
parameter is removed.
Fortdj33 (
talk)
16:21, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
|cinema=yes
parameter. I understand that the template is locked, but any editor can submit an edit request. What you need, is a new parameter (such as |filmbio=yes
for example), which would take the place of |cinema=yes
on the {{
WikiProject India}} banner for any articles about people. If such a parameter is created, please let me know, and I will be glad to help make sure that all the biography articles are properly tagged!
Fortdj33 (
talk)
16:52, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
I'll take a shot tomorrow. Soham 17:46, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
|cinema=yes
parameter. This adds the talk page in
Category:WikiProject Indian cinema articles and other subsidiaries. This has nothing to do with WikiProject Film and it's banner. The "Indian cinema task force" is practically more a subset of "WikiProject India" than "WikiProject Film". §§
Dharmadhyaksha§§ {
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11:55, 28 February 2014 (UTC)|cinema=yes
parameter are explained above. I understand that you feel this task force is more important to {{
WikiProject India}} than {{
WikiProject Film}}, but the fact remains that this is a film task force, and is subject to the same criteria as all other film task forces.
Fortdj33 (
talk)
19:34, 10 April 2014 (UTC)|cinema=yes
parameter, because it should only be used on articles about films. There are thousands of biographical articles that AWB simply skipped over, because they did not need to be updated. I am only removing that parameter from the handful of articles where the parameter was incorrectly added.
Fortdj33 (
talk)
01:58, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
Hello task force! Anybody have any ideas on where to find a reliable source for box office gross totals for Drishyam? There is an ongoing dispute about the gross, and we're having difficulty finding reliable sources. The ones that have been repeatedly submitted seem sketchy to some users. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you! Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 18:07, 5 May 2014 (UTC)
Box-office India.com has changed their site appearance and format introducing and implementing a new system of subscription. This subscription system uses monthly or yearly payment of $9.90 or $79.90 respectively. Only members with subscriptions are allowed to view details. Previous articles like this one are dead, that is just out of millions. There is a web-cache present though. However articles can be accessed through the home. New consensus has to take place and immediately. Soham 17:03, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
Hello, help needed! Let's start fixing the Box Office India links by either replacing them, or easier in the short term, by adding archived versions. You can use the Checklinks tool here: [3]. The documentation is at Wikipedia:CHECKLINKS. When you run the tool, most of the BOI links will come up red. You then open up the plus sign, and click on 'Wayback Machine' and search for a working version by opening them in a new window. When you find a good one, copy the URL, click on 'Replace link', paste it in and click okay. When you have found all you can, click 'Save changes' at the top of the page. If we have a few volunteers, we can at least knock out all of our FAs and GAs listed at WP:WikiProject Film/Indian cinema task force/Notable articles. Thank you, BollyJeff | talk 20:24, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
Now, where are we supposed to get box office information for new films? BOI was our #1 source, and now it's essentially gone. BollyJeff | talk 16:25, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
Can I please get some comments on this: Talk:Shahrukh_Khan#Proposed_move? I am almost ready to take this article to GA, but the title has to be settled first. BollyJeff | talk 01:36, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
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Just to increase the activity and honour senior editors of this project, I have a proposal of awarding a barnstar on the lines of "Dadasaheb Palke Award" to them. — Vensatry (Ping me) 13:49, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
Just a small notice so that people don't delete the article again: Dhoom 3 has begun filming and is therefore officially in production, meaning that it is worthy of having its own article right now. I have removed the redirect and even started work on it. Help is, as usual, much welcomed :D. Cheers. ~*~ Ankit Bhatt~*~ 09:41, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi all. I am relatively new to editing. I created an article in userspace for a Hindi film after I noticed that one didn't exist while browsing : User:AnshumanF/Abdullah (1980 film). I am not entirely sure if the talk page here is the right space to ask for feedback, but it would be lovely if more experienced editors could take a look at this. Thanks. AnshumanF ( talk) 15:21, 10 June 2012 (UTC)
The article Sivaji Ganesan well looks like a GA. But at the same time, competing actors like Gemini Ganesan and MGR, I hope to see them equally good! Someone pls look at Geminiganesan article and pls see the edit history, howz the work? U think it can improve? Kailash29792 ( talk) 12:55, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
I think Kahaani passed the GA nomination! In fact, I would rate it as "best written". But howcome it has been rated as "B-class" in the above listing? Pls update. Same applies for Ra.One which has been labelled as a GA, though it looks like an FA. Kailash29792 ( talk) 06:32, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
I really think that Kamal Haasan being a leading actor in Indian cinema, articles on his films need expansion. can anyone pls view the articles Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu, Unnaipol Oruvan and Manmadhan Ambu? They should really improve I think. Kailash29792 ( talk)`
Answer my question! Kailash29792 ( talk) 04:45, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
I would like to know if http://www.mouthshut.com is a reliable source. Because they provide many film reviews, (even for oldies) which may seem to be the only existing reviews for such films. Kailash29792 ( talk) 03:15, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
Why Best supporting actor/actress awards are taken into consideration for calculating superlatives in Best Actor and Best Actress pages respectively. — Vensatry (Ping me) 14:10, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
I have put forth a request at Signpost concerning the Indian Cinema task force's centenary year plans. You can see the suggestion here. Do have a look and put your thoughts here about the move. ~*~ Ankit Bhatt~*~ 08:12, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
On 3rd May 2013,
Raja Harishchandra the first full-length Indian feature film, would complete 100 years of release. The year would be observed as the centenary year of Indian Cinema. I am expecting some celebrations or events to happen on this occasion. (Govt
has promised few things.)
We, at Wikipedia could also do somethings great on this project. Making our works reach the main page could be one such activity. As we celebrate full year, we don't have to aim any particular date. I am posting this almost a year beforehand as this would require quite a lot of efforts from all.
Please add other articles that you feel might have good chance. Other suggestion, besides Project Aim Main Page are needed and hence welcome.
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AnimeshKulkarni (
talk)
12:49, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
Excellent proposal! We should work towards this. While Ra.One may become an FA, I suspect Ilayiaraja won't be there. There are other articles which can potentially become FA by then, such as Chak De India, Rang De Basanti and Kahaani. We should aim for a main page on that day.-- Dwaipayan ( talk) 13:20, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
Excellent idea. I was wondering, why not first and foremost work on Raja Harishchandra and make it an FA? Let's make that our top COTM. Other than that, there are numerous possibilities, but I feel that our aim (as part of this centenary) should be the improvement of quality of all Indian cinema articles; concentrating on a few to get to GA/FA status will be a parallel aim. How's that? ~*~ Ankit Bhatt~*~ 11:55, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
Excellent idea. Though not invited, I would still like to voice out my opinion on this matter. I think apart from all the other articles discussed above, we should try and get some of the Actors and Actresses articles up to FA status (GA atleast). IMO the top 5 living actors: Amitabh Bachchan, Dilip Kumar, The Khan Trio ( Aamir Khan, Shahrukh Khan and Salman Khan) should feature on Main page. Though I acknowledge the immense contributions and super-stardom of Raj Kapoor, Sanjeev Kumar, Dharmendra, Manoj Kumar, Rajesh Khanna, Dev Anand, Shammi Kapoor and so on, I fear if we could get much sources on these actors since not much is talked about or published on these stars when compared to the top 5 I listed. Currently of these only Amitabh's and Shahrukh's article are the nearest GA candidates and all others have to be extensively worked on. Among the actresses, I don't care much since none of them have really made a huge impact in this male dominated industry except the likes of Shabana Azmi, Madhuri Dixit, Rekha,.. (Ohh there are plenty Waheeda Rehman, Asha Parekh and so on..). 'P.S: I'm not much into Regional Cinema and hence I could list only Bollywood names since my knowledge is only up to that.-- Msrag ( talk) 14:31, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
I was wondering why certain articles like Enthiran have not been talked about. That, at least to me, looks like a very potent future FA. ~*~ Ankit Bhatt~*~ 17:30, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
Sorry for the late rely, was damn busy yesterday. One thing I could see is that all are supporting Raja Harishchandra to be a FA, so that it appears on the main page on its 100th anniversary. It would be great if Vensatry puts a mail in the Indian and English Wikiproject India mailing lists so that the discussion and the report reaches maximum. It will help us by bringing quality more and more editors. We might also see alot of admins there who will help us to feature it on the main page on the mentioned date. -- ♪Karthik♫ ♪Nadar♫ 08:51, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
Well, I feel that Pather Panchali should be the best article to consider. The article is already well written, and with some more work we can definitely get it to that level. Smarojit ( talk) 11:53, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
IMHO, lets not make any article GA/FA just because there are lots of sources available on the net!! If film/personality is going to represent Indian cinema, it has to be good. I would not prefer having F/GA status for Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... or Jeans than Piravi, Akaler Shandhaney or Do Aankhen Barah Haath and Umbartha, for that matter. Thanks. - Vivvt Talk 18:19, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
Ok. List is growing. Let's make some concrete plans. I am taking up the responsibility for the article Mother India. It has tremendous scope to become a featured article. I am in the process of obtaining two important books on/about the film. The article may need structural changes in places. We have time. IMO, 6 months would be a practical deadline for it. I would urge other users to take up some articles (individually or in groups). Kahaani is a nice example of collaboration that is currently taking place. That could be an FA as well in 6-8 months, even earlier. Any thoughts or plans?-- Dwaipayan ( talk) 15:56, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
Iti Mrinalini has also kick-started. I'm already cooped up with two articles now, but I shall try my best to help out on Mrinalini whenever possible. ~*~ Ankit Bhatt~*~ 09:10, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
59th National Film Awards is up for Peer Review. All are requested to help in it. We will be taking up the 58th article only after this list becomes FL. (Would save time by avoiding unnecessary edits.) §§ AnimeshKulkarni ( talk) 10:49, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi All, Kahaani is up for Peer Review. All are requested to help expand/improve/cleanup the article to make it a possible FA. Thanks ...Msrag talk2me 05:58, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
This list is strictly article-related; please do not add DYK or ITN candidates here. Please list the articles alphabetically, and italicize those entries which are for films. All suggestions are welcome, but they could ideally be discussed upon in the above portion before placing here.
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After ignoring and warning Ghajinidetails a number of times, I don't think we are at a situation to adjust anymore. His editing is getting troublesome, and his edit summaries are repetitive and often misleading. In response, he is totally non-communicative and has not bothered to act upon any of the problems which have been pointed out. Seeing his name and his edit history, this user is close to INCINE, so I thought of discussing possible action here. ~*~ Ankit Bhatt~*~ 11:59, 23 June 2012 (UTC)
I see that articles have been created for many relatively new awards for South Indian industries and wonder whether they are notable enough and deserve to have separate articles. Such awards include the Norway Tamil Film Festival Awards, Edison Awards (India) and Big FM Tamil Entertainment Awards in Tamil. Also the Suvarna Film Awards and Udaya Film Awards in Kannada and the Vanitha Film Awards and Mathrubhumi Film Awards in Malayalam, but I can't comment much about the other South Indian industries. The most recent inclusion has been the South Indian International Movie Awards, probably also the most notable one, that may get established in a few years. So which of these are notable that can be included in filmographies and which are not? Johannes003 ( talk) 09:35, 23 June 2012 (UTC)
Hello, i would like to point that there is a bit of a confusion about whether Gangs of Wasseypur should have two different articles or not.As both movies were shot at the same time,it is being argued that ,that can be discussed in a sub-section of "release" section. Gangs of Wasseypurand Talk:Gangs of Wasseypur. Ayanosh ( talk) 15:40, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
Do we consider TOI as a reliable source? I believe yes. Anon cited this on the Roja article. Going by the reliability norms, we should have no concerns for its inclusion. But then I doubt the reliability for the language being used in the article. It also mentions nothing more than published date. What say? - Vivvt Talk 18:19, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
How about looking at this specific issue with a different perspective? Do any other news sources refer to it? If not then it could be argued that it is trivial/non notable ... and if they do (& are not just rehashing the same agency report) then we perhaps could cite them instead or as well as TOI. There is also WP:CITEKILL to consider, of course. - Sitush ( talk) 07:55, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
The latest trend in the industry has been making "bilingual films", shooting a film in two languages simultaneously. It will be (more or less) the same film shot twice in different languages with a slightly different cast. But how to deal with these bilingual films? Create separate articles for each version? I'm strictly against this idea as it will be plain redundant but few editors have been doing exactly that. I feel if it's the same film with the same content one article would be sufficient. But then again if the films have different titles (like the recent Eega in Telugu and Naan Ee in Tamil), which title should be chosen as the page name? With many more upcoming films supposedly being bilingual films (though I suspect that most of these so called bilingual films are only being dubbed into the other language!), this might present us with a problem. Johannes003 ( talk) 15:30, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
For a while now, I have been thinking of adding other awards (wins and nominations) to the filmographies of Bollywood actors – similar to that of their Hollywood colleagues. However, before doing so, I would prefer making a list of the so-called "notable" awards; by doing so it would restrict the awards we add, as well as eliminate the unnecessary debate later on when people add a bunch of other awards. To begin with, we have already included the Filmfare Awards and the National Film Awards as both of them are unanimously the oldest and most prestigious award ceremonies in India. In addition to that, I would also consider the following five as popular, annual, notable award ceremonies; the awards are listed in alphabetical order:
While looking through several books, such as this, it states that "one indication of the Bollywoodization of television is the amount of airtime that television networks tend to give to telecasting annual film awards - which have evolved into a mini industry." The book refers to the ZCA as "a major showcase for Indian cinema" and the IIFA as the "so-called Bollywood Oscars". This book says: "Some of the more popular [awards] include the Filmfare Awards, the ZCA, the Stardust Awards, the Indian government-sponsored NFA, and the IIFA awards". In addition to these sources, Bollywood Hungama, a popular website portal also lists the following five awards apart from other two awards which are no longer held. Leave me your thoughts! -- Bollywood Dreamz talk 01:39, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
Comment to Bollywood Dreamz As of now there is no consensus to add those awards. You cannot assume that every other editor is fine with adding these awards since no one commented anymore. — Vensatry (Ping me) 13:46, 15 June 2012 (UTC)
I'm really keen on adding those awards to the filmographies of actors. If you take a look at the pages of Hollywood actors, you notice that each and every single award is listed. I don't see why it would be a problem to list the awards I mentioned above - these awards are notable enough and do deserve a mention as well. -- Bollywood Dreamz talk 03:03, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
I have observed that there are several articles created for Indian film songs. These can be seen under Category:Songs by language, Category:Indian songs, Category:Hindi songs, Category:Tamil songs etc. Most of them are not notable enough and qualify for AfD under WP:NSONGS. Please express your opinion here so that article creation can be managed well for songs. IMO, redirect is not the solution. - Vivvt Talk 17:25, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
Songs like Hai Ye Maya and Dushman Mera (Don 2 song) certainly needs to be deleted. I dont get these points here.. What do I get to know reading the two articles of those songs..? Where is the notability and success factors mentioned in the articles..? Hardly remember any radio stations playing those numbers as frequently as "Ooh la la" from TDP. Anyways those pages just says ABC song is sung by XYZ and written by MNO which could've been mentioned in the soundtrack page itself. Why a separate article for that? BTW, I think "Ooh la la" should be improved and supported for a separate article though I agree the current state of the article is not favorable. ...Msrag talk2me 08:05, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
A song article should not exist just because a couple of people think it was a hit. Noted charts, like the different FM's should have mentioned the song significantly in their own lists and the songs should have received sufficient critical notice to establish notability. Like it has been said, an article, just to say that a song was sung by XXX and composed by YYY is purely meaningless and provokes other editors to create articles for the music they find "great". Now that several sites have started giving out music reviews, in which each song is separately discussed, an editor can just start an article, write a section named critical response and quote large amounts of text, making others feel that the song has to stay. Moving that aside, it is unfortunate that Indian songs have little online statistical publishing to verify their significance. One should also take into account that songs like Teri Meri and Chammak Challo broke records upon release, like the YouTube hits. Perhaps, we should restrict the criterion to create pages for single track release, record-breaking response verified by sources, and those which have won multiple awards. Secret of success ( talk) 12:57, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
How much so ever you discuss here or vote delete in AfDs, the closing admin will come and redirect them because
redirects are cheap. This has recently happened with almost all songs that were AfDed.
Aaya Tere Dar Par,
Aisa Des Hai Mera,
Do Pal,
Hum To Bhai Jaise,
Main Yahan Hoon and
Yeh Hum Aa Gaye Hain Kahan were redirected to
Veer-Zaara#Music.
Dekho Na and
Chanda Chamke were redirected to
Fanaa (film).
Hui Main Parineeta,
Kasto Mazza and
Soona Man Ka Aangan were redirected to
Parineeta (2005 film).
Kaisi Paheli Zindagani on the other hand
was deleted as it was closed by Admin
User:The Bushranger and not Admin
User:Crisco 1492.
Should we infer that we can make redirects of possibly all Indian songs? They are cheap after all.
Funny thing to note,
Rohit Mehra is also now redirected to
Krrish (film series). On similar lines one could make a redirect
Baburao Ganpatrao Apte to
Hera Pheri (2000 film) and
Laxmi Godbole to
Chachi 420.
And why stop there? We could also prepare redirects for famous dialogues like
Mooche ho to Nathulal jaise to
Sharaabi and
Ki...Ki...Ki...Kiran to
Darr. §§
AnimeshKulkarni (
talk)
07:38, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
In the Afd Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Paisa paisa User:MichaelQSchmidt suggests that a disambiguation article like User:MichaelQSchmidt/Paisa Paisa should be prepared for this song. I am against it as this would open opportunities for many more songs which share same titles or first few words. We know there could be many songs that start with same/similar wordings. Although the current decision is only for this particular song, it will be cited as precedence for future. Though there is huge essay on how other stuff exists, why let something like this happen in the very first place. Hence thought of dropping a note here to bring this to your attention. §§ AnimeshKulkarni ( talk) 12:45, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
In the recently held 59th Filmfare Awards South ceremony, Vikram was honoured with a Critics Award for Best Actor for his work in a Tamil film. The award category is the first of its kind in Southern FF awards. Some users come to a conclusion that it's the same as Filmfare Special Award – South and keep updating related articles. Just like the "Critics award for best performance" for Bollywood films, this cat would've been introduced for Southern FF awards. — Vensatry (Ping me) 17:51, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
I've made some changes to the design of the main page. Members are free to discuss changes and propose new designs. Feel free to revert, if the design is not satisfactory. Thanks! — Vensatry (Ping me) 16:14, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi WikiProject Film/Indian cinema task force. I notice that the articles Ezhil, Karu Pazhaniappan, Seeman (director), Selva (director), Siva (director), Suresh Krishna (director), S. J. Surya, Bhaskar (director), Chandra Sekhar Yeleti, K. Vijaya Bhaskar, Pasupuleti Krishna Vamsi, Raghava Lawrence, Ravi Babu and Trivikram Srinivas contain embedded "filmography" navboxes, added by an IP editor during the past month, which result in the articles being incorrectly included in Category:Indian film director navigational boxes (and some also in Category:Tamil film director navigational boxes). Would anyone object to me converting these embedded navboxes into proper navbox templates, and then transcluding the templates into the relevant film articles (as well as back into the article about the director, of course)? It seems like a no-brainer to me, but I thought I'd ask just in case there had been a previous decision that these directors didn't warrant their own templates, or something like that. Thanks. DH85868993 ( talk) 05:11, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
FYI, I have nominated Template:Chiranjeevi for deletion. Please express any views you may have on the matter at the deletion discussion. Thanks. DH85868993 ( talk) 05:19, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
Indian cinema has reached a level where it potentially depends on speculation and gossip to popularize it further. These are purely not encyclopedic in any manner, however, it may not appear so to a new reader, as there are several articles at the moment having sentences like "XXX was rumored to play a role in a film, (s)he dismissed it later." I happened to find many editors at the moment in WikiProject Film discouraging this, hence, it would serve a purpose, if editors here to pursue their thoughts on the issue. Secret of success ( talk) 15:11, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
There is a discussion at Talk:Ninne Pelladata about the correct spelling of the film's name. Your input would be appreciated. Thanks. DH85868993 ( talk) 22:19, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
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Guys I have removed this barnstar from main page of Wikipedia:WikiProject Film/Indian cinema task force, as we already have enough of the north south propaganda by the politicians, lets keep this away from wikipedia, at least. Please use an Indian Cinema barnstar wherever applicable. -- DBig Xray 10:41, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
Clarify: Good Heavens ! Apologies if I was not clear enough. As Ncmvocalist has already said above, Of course I am not trying to start any kind of fight here, in fact I am trying to remove the misunderstanding that will arise seeing this, I know a mere rename of this barnstar is not going to work, That is why I proposed doing away with this barnstar and using either An Template:Indian Cinema Barnstar or an Industry specific barnstar. -- DBig Xray 17:00, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
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The Indian Cinema Barnstar
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After reading the above discussion I have created the Template:Indian Cinema Barnstar barnstar, comments please-- DBig Xray 17:16, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
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The Bollywood Barnstar | |
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Having separate barnstars for Bollywood, Telugu, Bengali and Bhojpuri cinema might reduce the "north south propaganda", but it is certainly not going to reduce regionalism. I have to agree with SpacemanSpiff here, lets replace all the regional barnstars with an Indian cinema barnstar. CorrectKnowledge ( talk) 00:13, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
(Invited by
DBigXray and Interested to butt in) Hello people..I have created a few barnstar designs for Indian Cinema Barnstars.Please leave your comments.
Cheers,
TheStrike
Σagle
09:44, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
Note Option 4 is eliminated.
TheStrike
Σagle
14:32, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
Which option are you likely to support?
There is no special image that can be used in Tamil Cinema, Bhojpuri Cinema etc so I have used the image from above. As in the above section the consensus for Image is image 3 so in the
Template:Indian Cinema Barnstar I have added a parameter |cinema
for a special usage. eg. below --
DBig
Xray
17:09, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
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Tho phir sab industries me pharak kya padta hai Then what would be the difference between all the industries.If we wish to use a unified star for all...then that's it.....why do we have to use separate names of barnstars.....criticisms welcome :)
TheStrike
Σagle
15:44, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
The WikiProject Report would like to focus on the Indian Cinema Task Force for a Signpost article. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Multiple editors will have an opportunity to respond to the interview questions, so be sure to sign your answers. If you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Have a great day. - Mabeenot ( talk) 16:44, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
Hello. There is currently an editor attempting to make changes to the lead section of Taare Zameen Par regarding whether the English translation of the title is included, as well as the placement of the international DVD film title. I've tried opening a dialogue, but the editor refuses to discuss the matter. I don't want to start an edit war, so his version is currently up at the moment. Since the article is one of the two film FA's within this task force, and because the changes could affect the format of other Bollywood lead sections, I thought it would be best to see if anybody in the task force would like to contribute to the discussion that I opened on the film's talk page ( Talk:Taare Zameen Par#Lead section) to see what everyone thought would be the best way to present it. Thanks. Ω pho is 23:30, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Help desk#wish to remove all the deadlinks related to my site on Wikipedia. how can i do it? ( permanent link). There are currently 272 links to the site at http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Special:LinkSearch&limit=500&offset=0&target=http%3A%2F%2F*.chakpak.com. Many of them are from articles. PrimeHunter ( talk) 01:01, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
While the use of reliable aggregator sites is accepted per WP:AGG to measure the critical response of a movie, the reliability of such sites are often under question and sometimes removed by some of the editors. In this view it is essential to frame a policy and determine reliability of the following Indian websites which are generally used as aggregators:
I would request all to share their views. Amartyabag TALK2ME 04:01, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
review gang looks more credible. It lists the critic reviews. I guess many Indan movies have review aggregates in rotten tomatoes as well.-- Dwaipayan ( talk) 05:12, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
Hello,
I have started to work on categories on Commons, first with Indian and Bolloywood actresses. My objectives is to nominate a valued images for all the main actresses and actors. We already got a few (ABB, Salman Khan, Aishwarya Rai, Madhuri Dixit, Shilpa Shetty, Vidya Balan, Parvathy Omanakuttan). We need a place on Commons to discuss Indian related subjects. What do yo think? Yann ( talk) 16:17, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
Please come and participate! Yann ( talk) 15:39, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
Recently a group of articles of
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Bollywood debuts in 2010s were deleted after AfD. The information was not worth keeping on a stand-alone article as it was over-classification per me. However, the information is not all crap and can be kept in some common place in an encyclopedia.
If one happens to see the format of
2008 in film, one would find not only top grossers, but also notable events, deaths, births, etc. on these articles. On similar lines, should our articles
Bollywood films of 2008 be reformated to include events, births, deaths, debuts and be moved to
2008 in Bollywood? §§
Dharmadhyaksha§§ {
T/
C}
09:26, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
I propose redirecting and reformatting all articles (74 in number) in the Category:Lists of Bollywood films by year. The current articles in the category are titled as "Bollywood films of XXXX" (XXXX is year). Should they be moved, leaving a redirect from old name, to "XXXX in Bollywood", they fall in line with many other "XXXX in topic" format on Wikipedia. Also, this new name increases the scope of the article to include births, deaths, special events, award ceremonies, debuts, etc. of that year on same page. §§ Dharmadhyaksha§§ { T/ C} 09:40, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
I created most of the Indian and world films lists, yes. 1973 in Bollywood etc would be cool if they were written about as articles and then the list of films and birth/deaths and award. Bollywood films of 1950 I think I started doing something to that effect. Feel free to move, so long as they remain consistent and properly linked in existing templates.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 12:39, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
A similar discussion was started at Talk:Bengali_films_of_2012#Requested_move. I put a link to here on that page. BollyJeff | talk 19:31, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
Hello friends, I've nominated Portal:Bollywood for featured status. This is the only portal covered by this task force and I expect your comments to improve it. Please take a little time and review it. Here's a nomination page, thanks. — Bill william compton Talk 15:52, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi guys, I have a question. I apologize if I am wrong, since I'm new. :) Are the importance ratings for actors going to be all the same? I'm not referring to the importance rating on the WP India banner, but where it says, "This article is supported by the Indian cinema workgroup (marked as ______-importance)." Because for Amitabh Bachchan, it is rated as Top-, and for Dev Anand, it is listed as High-. Shammi Kapoor is rated as High- too. Shouldn't they all be the same, since they're all actors? Red Hat On Head ( talk) 21:36, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
I just wanted to ask a question here whether upcoming actors are considered notable if there exists multiple reliable sources about them. I am struggling to save this article inspite of five references from national newspapers. -- Anbu121 ( talk me) 08:24, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
I have added a non-notable tag to the article of Vipul K Rawal who claims to be the writer of Iqbal (film). I found no credible reference of his notability. I am planning to nominate his article for deletion. Do let me know if I need to mention this article somewhere else in the Indian cinema wiki project, or this talk page was fine. Jay ( talk) 16:28, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
Guys, I am new here, however I stumbled upon this page. Actually the writer of Iqbal is Vipul K Rawal and there are numerous articles from various reliable sources attached. I noticed a few from Ecomonic Times, The Hindu and even Moser Bayer, the company that has the DVD rights of the movie have credited the movie to him. ALso, the website of Rajashree, a reputed production house who have the internet rights of Iqbal have credited the story of Iqbal to him. Saddumama ( talk) 12:48, 12 January 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Saddumama ( talk • contribs) 12:35, 12 January 2013 (UTC) As a reference I am attaching the link from the Moser Baer quiz. [2] [1] Saddumama ( talk) 12:56, 12 January 2013 (UTC) Saddumama ( talk) 12:49, 12 January 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Saddumama ( talk • contribs) 12:42, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
I feel that we need to rethink the criteria for including a language in the article Discontinued and Intermittent National Film Awards instead of having its own article. Awards for Oriya, Telugu, English and Assamese have been rather intermittent in recent years and yet they have their own articles, while languages like Punjabi, Manipuri and Konkani have been equally or more regularly awarded in recent years, and yet are on the intermittent page.
I suggest that we have a criteria like 'languages that have been awarded more than two or three times be given their own article'. The Discoverer ( talk) 07:43, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
Please refer to the pages before and after creation of "Discontinued.." page to verify the copy-paste! Again, you are more than welcome to correct the errors in the page, if you have observed any. The page creation was discussed on the talk page of this task force and then taken a decision to make a separate page. With your logic of one-missing-in-59-lets-make-it-intermittent, we will end up having every article in the intermittent page. So get the consensus on that as well so that you can move everything you wished to the intermittent page. The examples you've given here are surprisingly irrelevant to the subject!! - Vivvt • ( Talk) 17:54, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
Should the award for each language have its own article, or should a few of the articles have their own article and rest be grouped into a common article? (See preceding discussion) The Discoverer ( talk) 18:02, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
Weirdly, two television and film child actors
Kaushal Singh and
Rohan Shah have similar biographies. Their birth dates are claimed to be different, but their works are all same. Funny thing is that they both claim to have played Maddy in Disney's TV show
Ishaan. Ishaan's article however credits Shah and not Singh.
I am doubtful on Singh's biography as the July 2012 version seems to be
copy-paste work of Shah's
Jan 2012 version. I cant find any reliable sources to check which one is fake. But i think Shah is right one. Help needed. §§
Dharmadhyaksha§§ {
T/
C}
05:01, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
{{
db-hoax}}
and maybe reference this discussion. —
Spaceman
Spiff
05:18, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
I am no longer interested in co-ordinating this project. With the presence of a few bad-faith people (who I thought were my good friends), I don't want to waste my time here owing to personal reasons. The project has a lot of potential editors and I think someone could perform the duties much more better than me with lot of involvement. Thanks for the support and encouragement. — Vensatry (Ping me) 13:48, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
Swayamvaram was recently nominated for GA. I read the article, it is quite well-developed, and close to GA. I can do the review, but the problem is the nominator seems to be very new, and he did not contribute to the article at all. The principal contributor (Arfaz) remains blocked. Anyone interested to take up the responsibility of responding to GA review? Someone who speaks Malayalam, or, at least, has seen the film would be a better candidate, but anyone can do it.-- Dwaipayan ( talk) 18:45, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
Priyanka Chopra peer review underway here: Wikipedia:Peer review/Priyanka Chopra/archive1. Want to apply for FAC soon. BollyJeff | talk 17:49, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
In June 2012, we had elaborate discussion on possible featured article, list drive for the centenary year. It's four months from now. Ay update on activities? The stuffs that I know are — National Film Award for Best Actress is almost at the end of the featured list candidacy, Vidya Balan became featured article (although it was not discussed in the plan as such, and has already been featured on the main page), The 59th National Film Awards failed at FLC, and Mother India although nearly ready has not been nominated yet for FAC (I plan to discuss with other collaborators of the article on a FAC soon). Any other updates?-- Dwaipayan ( talk) 05:43, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
Does anybody has book, Spirit of Lagaan by Satyajit Bhatkal? It contains lot of information on the film. I do have the book but currently not with me. Lagaan has also got good chances at FAC. - Vivvt • ( Talk) 03:44, 23 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi everyone at WikiProject India cinema!
Women's history month is around the corner, in March, and we're planning the second WikiWomen's History Month.
This event, which is organized by volunteers from the WikiWomen's Collaborative, supports improving coverage about women's history during the month of March. Events take place both offline and online. We are encouraging WikiProjects to focus on women's history related to their subject for the month of March. Ideas include:
We hope you'll participate! You can list your your project focus here, and also help improve our to-do list. Thank you for all you do for Wikipedia! SarahStierch ( talk) 21:48, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
Hello fellow friends. I need your opinions. I am currently in the process of restructuring a film article, which is the Paap (2003) film. Another Wikipedian has disagreed with me on updating the theatrical poster of the page. Previously, the article used a low-quality scan of the DVD cover. Can anyone please advise me on what to do? I thank you for your cooperation. Yours faithfully, Kotak kasut. 11:52, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
Hello. A discussion regarding the placement of English DVD titles for films released worldwide in cinemas under the foreign title has been opened at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Film#Placement of alternate titles. Any input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Ω pho is 00:42, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
Hello!
We have an article at Kaikala Satyanarayana, a veteran actor in Telugu films. There is a user User talk:Satish.kasetty who claims he is "Kasetty Sathyanarayana" also goes by screen name "Satish Kasetty", a film director. The user has been editing the articles 59th National Film Awards, Hope (2006 film) and National Film Award for Best Film on Other Social Issues.
Now the references say that the jury of 59th NFA was "K. Satyanarayana" ( ref pg 46). The director of the film Hope and winner of NFA is credited as "K. Sathyanarayana" ( ref pg 19). Both refs show images of the person, which look same to me. This person also has a website, (claimed as official owner's), at http://satishkasetty.com/.
This clearly seems to be the case where both Satyanarayanas have been mixed at some places. Also both have same initial of K. So its quite likely to happen. Now the problem here to find the right target. Should the new article on the director be at Kasetty Sathyanarayana or Satish Kasetty or what? I need help of someone who knows somewhat about the two subjects. Is the screen name popular enough to be the article name per WP:COMMONNAME? I personally have no knowledge of them. §§ Dharmadhyaksha§§ { T/ C} 04:12, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi there. After Harmeet Singh turned into a disambiguation-page, I've fixed most of the incoming links to the dab-page, but there are several Indian films which still got a link to this dab-page. I believe it is the same person, as he listed under "Cinematography" is all the articles, but I haven't fixed those links as I don't know where to link to. Could any member of this project find the correct disambiguator (perhaps Harmeet Singh (cinematographer)?), and fix the remaining incoming links to Harmeet Singh? Cheers, Mentoz86 ( talk) 09:08, 12 April 2013 (UTC)
Anyone who is able to provide insight into the reliability of reviewbol is invited to share their perspectives at Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard#Identifying_.22Reviewbol.22_as_reliable_source -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 12:18, 12 April 2013 (UTC)
Pran wins the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 2012. In the news nomination for your support. §§ Dharmadhyaksha§§ { T/ C} 12:50, 12 April 2013 (UTC)
As far as I know, ibos is not considered as a reliable source. However, I see that this is used in scholarly articles (journals) as a reference. I remember from the discussion we had regarding reliability of boxofficeindia.com, when an editor presented evidences that the website had been used in scholarly articles as references, boxofficeindia became a source that we could reliably use. Any thought on ibos?-- Dwaipayan ( talk) 15:50, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
We could use some eyes at Wikipedia:Peer review/Sholay/archive1. Thanks, BollyJeff | talk 15:49, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
Please have a look at Talk:Kati Patang and give your opinion regarding when this film was released. BollyJeff | talk 17:23, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
There are some IPs 39.32.x.x and 39.47.x.x that keep messing up articles related to Shahrukh Khan. Can anything be done? There is not much use in leaving warnings, because the IP address keeps shifting slightly. BollyJeff | talk 18:34, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
In India the production of
multilingual films is still in use, surprisingly to me as an European where it was practiced only few years in the early talkie era. During this year there are/ will be released at least 4 movies which were shot simultaneously in altered language-versions:
David (2013 Hindi film)/
David (2013 Tamil film),
Gouravam (2013 film) (Telugu/Tamil),
Zanjeer/
Toofan,
Nimirndhu Nil/
Janda Pai Kapiraju.
As there is a lemma about
multiple-language version a new section about the Indian practice of this film translating-method should be added. Unfortunately, I didn't find adequate sources in English, so I can't write it by myself.
Hoerestimmen (
talk)
23:59, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
This BLP is completely unreferenced and currently at AFD. Can editors familiar with the go-to sources for Bollywood articles help source/improve it, since the subject is obviously notable enough to have a wiki bio ? Abecedare ( talk) 17:21, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
All pages created by the relatively new and possibly-COI'd editor
Senseltd (
talk ·
contribs) need to be reviewed for notability and
WP:PRODed or
AFD'd if not notable or radically cleaned up/wikified if notable. There are so many I haven't bothered to tag them all yet.
Two exceptions One exception:
davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 18:34, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
Dear Indian cinema experts: This article is being considered for deletion, can someone please volunteer and improve it? Also a debate for deletion is going on according to which this Actor is not notable, it would be a great help if someone could find his Biography and upload an image of him. -- Foodie ( talk) 11:04, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
I have started creating the article Indian film series. Since there a lot of them I need your help in adding more series. Since there a lot of film series consisting of 2 films, my opinion is that only those film series with 3 or more films should be added (all of which have been released only). Please feel free to come and add more and do the required corrections. Once fully created, this list will be highly informative. I can add only those films in Hindi and Malayalam and that too not many. Members from other language communities are also invited. All future opinions and comments here or on my talk page only please since I would not be watching this page. - Jayadevp 13 07:19, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
This is my doubt. Is the Elements trilogy Indian or Canadian? I know that it is Indian subcontinent based but is it a Bollywood movie. For example, Slumdog Millionaire is India based but it is a Hollywood movie. My doubt is that should it be included in the List of Indian film series? If possible then direct all your comments or opinions here. - Jayadevp 13 05:16, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi WikiProject, I respectfully request some familiar eyes over at Lena (actress). There is some recent discrepancy about her relationship status. An earlier editor sourced a contribution indicating she was married, but a recent editor provided a sourced edit that suggests she was not married. She appears to be credited with the last name Abhilash. Anyhow, the subject is beyond the scope of my knowledge, and I can't read the source article. I would also like to suggest that maybe the film credit list in the article is long. Do we need to list cameo appearances? Seems WP:INDISCRIMINATE. Thank you! Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 01:27, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
Remember this discussion on the Centenary year project? We did pretty well in 2013. Here is the list of just the new FAs for this year:
I don't know how many were actually displayed on the front page, but I know that Priyanka Chopra was. BollyJeff | talk 14:16, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
I recently closed an MfD that contained a description of Choo Mantar 3D, purportedly an upcoming film. The nominator asserted it was a fake article, which was endorsed by another user. Since then, the creator has been in touch with me about trying to get it restored, arguing that it is a real film; see User talk:BDD#Untitled ( permalink). Could anyone help to verify or disprove these claims? While the user's name implies COI, I'd still feel pretty bad if I were preventing a legitimate contribution from a new user. Pinging MfD participants Bovineboy2008 and Jni in case they have anything to add. -- BDD ( talk) 21:20, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
Telugu cinema's first talkie film Bhakta Prahlada was for a very long time believed to have been released on 15 September 1931. But these recent and authentic news articles containing research by an award winning film historian prove that it was released on 6 February 1932. They are as follows:
I request someone to read them thoroughly and decide whether Bhakta Prahlada is worth moving. Kailash29792 ( talk) 05:03, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
There's a pending AfC for Tejaswini Lonari, a Hindu-language and Marathi-language actress. She's been in a few productions with Wikipedia pages (so may be notable), but I'm not familiar with the sources in Indian cinema/TV to know whether she passes the bar. Maybe somebody could take a look at sourcing & notability here? Jodi.a.schneider ( talk) 15:46, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
Dear Indian cinema experts: Can someone from this project give some advice to the creator or this submission? I have tried. Thanks! — Anne Delong ( talk) 18:17, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
Isn't enough to start a article on this title? -- Inbamkumar86 ( talk) 14:45, 19 October 2013 (UTC)
Thalapathy (2013 film), a redirect to Thalapathy (2013 film), has been nominated for deletion at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2014 April 20#Thalapathy (2013 film). It was created as a duplicate article and is the name of a song from the film it now targets, which together with a couple of other things makes me suspect that there might be some plausibility. Input from people knowledgeable about Indian cinema would be especially welcome at the discussion. Thanks, Thryduulf ( talk) 18:54, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
Hello! I recently added hundreds of Stub-Class articles to this project, because they were previously missing stub tags and/or project banners on their talk pages. However, I've also noticed that there are a large number of articles about Indian people that are tagged with the parameter |cinema=yes
. Per
WP:FILM, the Film project does not include actors, directors and filmmakers. Those people are covered by adding the parameter |filmbio-work-group=yes
to the {{
WikiProject Biography}} banner instead. This applies to all of the film task forces as well, and of the other task forces using the parameters |cinema=yes
or |film=yes
, none of them include articles about people. Therefore I just wanted to let this project know, that I plan to remove this parameter from all of the biography articles, so that the film categories will only contain articles about films.
Fortdj33 (
talk)
14:56, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
|cinema=yes
and |Indian=yes
parameters. However, the assessment page says nothing about including Indian actors, directors and filmmakers, because those articles should NOT have the {{
WikiProject Film}} banner on their talk pages, and consequently should not have the |cinema=yes
parameter on the {{
WikiProject India}} banner.
Fortdj33 (
talk)
15:38, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
|cinema=yes
parameter is removed.
Fortdj33 (
talk)
16:21, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
|cinema=yes
parameter. I understand that the template is locked, but any editor can submit an edit request. What you need, is a new parameter (such as |filmbio=yes
for example), which would take the place of |cinema=yes
on the {{
WikiProject India}} banner for any articles about people. If such a parameter is created, please let me know, and I will be glad to help make sure that all the biography articles are properly tagged!
Fortdj33 (
talk)
16:52, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
I'll take a shot tomorrow. Soham 17:46, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
|cinema=yes
parameter. This adds the talk page in
Category:WikiProject Indian cinema articles and other subsidiaries. This has nothing to do with WikiProject Film and it's banner. The "Indian cinema task force" is practically more a subset of "WikiProject India" than "WikiProject Film". §§
Dharmadhyaksha§§ {
T/
C}
11:55, 28 February 2014 (UTC)|cinema=yes
parameter are explained above. I understand that you feel this task force is more important to {{
WikiProject India}} than {{
WikiProject Film}}, but the fact remains that this is a film task force, and is subject to the same criteria as all other film task forces.
Fortdj33 (
talk)
19:34, 10 April 2014 (UTC)|cinema=yes
parameter, because it should only be used on articles about films. There are thousands of biographical articles that AWB simply skipped over, because they did not need to be updated. I am only removing that parameter from the handful of articles where the parameter was incorrectly added.
Fortdj33 (
talk)
01:58, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
Hello task force! Anybody have any ideas on where to find a reliable source for box office gross totals for Drishyam? There is an ongoing dispute about the gross, and we're having difficulty finding reliable sources. The ones that have been repeatedly submitted seem sketchy to some users. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you! Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 18:07, 5 May 2014 (UTC)
Box-office India.com has changed their site appearance and format introducing and implementing a new system of subscription. This subscription system uses monthly or yearly payment of $9.90 or $79.90 respectively. Only members with subscriptions are allowed to view details. Previous articles like this one are dead, that is just out of millions. There is a web-cache present though. However articles can be accessed through the home. New consensus has to take place and immediately. Soham 17:03, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
Hello, help needed! Let's start fixing the Box Office India links by either replacing them, or easier in the short term, by adding archived versions. You can use the Checklinks tool here: [3]. The documentation is at Wikipedia:CHECKLINKS. When you run the tool, most of the BOI links will come up red. You then open up the plus sign, and click on 'Wayback Machine' and search for a working version by opening them in a new window. When you find a good one, copy the URL, click on 'Replace link', paste it in and click okay. When you have found all you can, click 'Save changes' at the top of the page. If we have a few volunteers, we can at least knock out all of our FAs and GAs listed at WP:WikiProject Film/Indian cinema task force/Notable articles. Thank you, BollyJeff | talk 20:24, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
Now, where are we supposed to get box office information for new films? BOI was our #1 source, and now it's essentially gone. BollyJeff | talk 16:25, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
Can I please get some comments on this: Talk:Shahrukh_Khan#Proposed_move? I am almost ready to take this article to GA, but the title has to be settled first. BollyJeff | talk 01:36, 27 June 2014 (UTC)