Monday, June 08, 2009

No more couch potato

Film making is an art, not an absolute spontaneous one. Its one of the well organised pre-planned art. Which has enough room to re-think and re-imagine. Though it involves lot of human work, as our population, India's creating worlds large number of movies in a year, but a very few movies are in world standard. Out of all industries, the technical think tank in movie making is in the level of appreciable. The package is well, but products taste is awful. Operation success, patient dead! what might be the reason for this flawed culture/period reflective creations? actually movies are one or only art which reflects the life exactly in that periods, people, style, fashion, cultural and habitual nuances, etc..Does our movies do this? Not necessarily it should reflect so-so's, but it has the responsibility to replicate those things and also there are much more hidden entertainments in the mirror of peoples currents life. There we're lagging still. The omnipresence of movie art in traditional and contemporary society is surely a hallmark in any period. Movies, literature, music, travel is always gives an on-going experience for me, it's a kinda existentialism, coz' it has its own aesthetics in itself. But no movie has this existentialism in current celluloid scenario. Here, i like to mention the meaning of OSHO, it has a strange meaning(courtesy:saravanan), like we have the word 'experience', do we have any word for experiencer? that is called OSHO in Sanskrit. So each and every audience should be an osho, an experiencer.Moreover, movies should be a life, an on-going experience. Present movies are like monkey jumping, each and every sequence/scenes are quite chunky, there is no continuity, in one scene the characters are speaking in some remote village, then the next scene they're singing and dancing in Swiss. This is a simple example, i can say lots of nuances like this.
In this case, Kim ki-duk, Steven soderberg(except ocean's series), Ameer(Raam and paruthiveeran(more or less or otherwise in tamil film industry)),krzysztof kieslowski are the rare case in film making, who doesn't look its ingredient outside from the plot. Movies are like poem, and that poem should be like
Come with us hand in hand
Join us in play and joyous dance
awaken from your dream of worldly worries
now light as a feather
as graceful as autumn leaves falling
hear the child calling
~Idunna Elemiah
or in my words it should be slightly hungry, slightly cold or if i ll put it very simple, or may be like a drizzling or a feel after nightmare, or even it can be like the feel of an accidental death of a stranger who was speaking with you just few minutes back on roadside. If they do this, Indians are no longer been a couch potato.
(to be continued..)

5 comments:

shankar said...

athu ena sir 'peela feel'??

Anonymous said...

I too feel very bad and share your deep concerns about the current pathetic and awful state of Tamil and Indian cinema industry.

Anonymous said...

Just imagine Ravi, how much and ease the hard earned "Electric Power" being wasted by these so called mass/electronic media - cinema(!) & TV dance(?) shows {another prime example of the fourth estate being totally being irresponsible of their God-given role in the people's democracy(are we??)} in the name of "entertainment"(are we not periodically entertained already by the stunts of Indian Polity!!).

Anonymous said...

You talk about shooting in a foreign and alien land, then they built engineering colleges and leave it for cinema shooting!.(same in religious places of worship and temples).Ironic!!

You tell them why gossiping about other people's lives and they preach you thats a 'democratic right'!.Is democracy thrives only by the so called 'democractic media' or that alone taken to be the index or ratings?.Its just a "media circus" going on in the name of people's democracy and the common man is the joker!!

Vazhga Valamudan

Anonymous said...

You talk about shooting in a foreign and alien land, then they built engineering colleges and leave it for cinema shooting!.(same in religious places of worship and temples).Ironic!!

You tell them why gossiping about other people's lives and they preach you thats a 'democratic right'!.Is democracy thrives only by the so called 'democractic media' or that alone taken to be the index or ratings?.Its just a "media circus" going on in the name of people's democracy and the common man is the joker!!

Vazhga Valamudan