Re: Lady in Water - By M. Night Shyamalan
Saw it last night... was not too fond of it.
Re: Lady in Water - By M. Night Shyamalan
Really aahmed?
It got thrashed by the critics. No one has given above C grade. I am not really fond of critics but Night’s films after the success of The Sixth Sense has been way below average.
Re: Lady in Water - By M. Night Shyamalan
f*ckin waste of $12 dollars.......dont even go 2 watch LADY IN WATER! Boooooooooooooo
all of his movies after 6th sense been garbage!
Re: Lady in Water - By M. Night Shyamalan
not indian … i thought he was tamil? init?
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Um…Tamil people are Indian…most of the time anyway. 
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Yeaah i know their ancestors came from india but
aren’t tamils from sri.lanka?
Re: Lady in Water - By M. Night Shyamalan
‘Indian roots are deeper than I know’
Rajeev Masand
CNN-IBN
Posted Sunday , July 23, 2006 at 16:26
Updated Sunday , July 23, 2006 at 17:39 Email Print
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/indian-roots-are-deeper-than-i-know/16410-8.html
New York: Manoj Night Shyamalan is India’s most famous export to Hollywood. And in many ways Shyamalan’s latest film Lady in the Water is similar to our very own masala Bollywood films. And yet, the man who says he has never understood Hindi films insists that it’s his most personal picture yet.
Here is an exclusive interview of the director with CNN-IBN’s Entertainment Editor, Rajeev Masand.
Rajeev Masand: Shyamalan, you have said all along actually that this film started off as a bedtime story for your daughters. Have they seen the film and did they feel a sense of ownership to this film because they know that it was a story essentially created for them?
M Night Shyamalan: Yes. It’s been a beautiful time of them growing up to the point that they actually know what I am doing. Even when I made The Village, they didn’t really understand what I was doing for a living. But now they know because they see posters, they see people talk about it, they watch TV and see commercials. And the Lady in the Water story came from both of them and we have been talking about it. So they know everything about the story, everything about the movie and it’s intention.
But they are also at that age when they realise and they say, “That’s what Dad does? He gets to do this?” And I see the realisation blossoming.
Once when we driving down New York, there was a 150-foot poster of Lady in the Water in the middle of Times Square and they were looking up and saying “Oh My God.” It was a great moment because they knew every creature and every single thing in the poster and they knew what it means.
Rajeev Masand: What is it about your writing or about your movies perhaps that reflects your Indian roots?
M Night Shyamalan: The belief in mythologies, as a tool for learning. How we portray so many of our religious mythologies in our architecture. Even the Lady in the Water poster also senses the deedy with all the things around her. It’s probably deeper than I even know.
Re: Lady in Water - By M. Night Shyamalan
Tamils are orginally from India from Tamil Nadu. They went to Sri Lanka from Tamil Nadu.
Sinhalese are also originally from India from the Orissa, West Bengal region. They moved to Sri Lanka thousands of years ago.
Sinhalese is a Indo-Aryan language and Tamil is a Dravidian language. Hence the mistrust between the two communities. Sinhalese is Sanskrit mased.
Ashoka’s children went from India to Sri Lanka to spread Buddhism, so Sinhalese became Buddhists while Tamils are mostly Hindus.
Re: Lady in Water - By M. Night Shyamalan
I was looking forward to watching it but it really was a waste of my money. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone!
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Isn't it interesting how people like Afridi786 who make off-colour remarks never show up afterwards to stand behind their posts?
Cowards.
Re: Lady in Water - By M. Night Shyamalan
He went downhill with his movies. I hope he makes better movies like "SIGNS"
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Talha, I agree. First of all, I dont’ go by what critics say, they strike me as too pretentious. Secondly, I agree, most of Night’s films after The Sixth Sense were kinda predictable because there was always suspense and an exptected twist which wasn’t too much of a surprise. This film doesn’t have any twists. It’s a what you see is what you get fantasy film. Entertaining even.
Re: Lady in Water - By M. Night Shyamalan
From what i have heard its a flop