In response to
my previous
blog, some commenters (on another social networking site) have justified
why Indian movies continue to be the way they tend to be – they said, ‘these
movies titillate the masses, they give the people an escape from reality, they
tend to make money or business case’.
No dispute on
that.
On the
justification of Indian movies continuing to be the way they tend to be – the
best comparison that I can make is with pornography. The pornographic movies also tend to
titillate the masses, give the people an escape from reality, and they tend to
make money. [I am afraid that pornography industry may take umbrage at that
comparison, because it tends to throw up actors better than Deepika Padukone or
Tusshar Kapur; and some soft porn movies have better script than
Ram-Leela].
Upon inspection,
the comparison seems to be apt in many respects – the acting skills are
confined to having a repertoire of one or two expressions which are repeated
throughout the movie, and is considered quite OK. The
script is sometimes completely absurd where anything goes – fiction is mixed
with fact at the whims and fancy of the director and the audience has no
problem in accepting such absurdities, all in the name of enjoyment. The editing is sometimes much better in the
pornography compared to some of the Indian movies.
The award
ceremonies are also very similar. While
the Academy devotes only 4 awards to actors out of a total of 24, giving
importance to various other aspects of movie making like visual effects and makeup,
Indian movie awards tend to focus on trying to satisfy as many actors as
possible – with categories like best villain and best comedian. In some award functions, the actor’s fathers
and mothers are also felicitated.
The comparison in
awards continues. Most Indian movie
awards have a category for ‘best debutante’ or ‘best newcomer’ which no other
serious movie awards dole out – once again this comes from pornography industry
which gives out an award for ‘best new starlet’.
At the outset,
Indian Cinema is a substitute for pornography, and I believe that Indian Cinema
will improve if we allow pornography in this country – that way the whole idea
of ‘titillating and entertaining the masses’ will move towards pornography
where the actresses like Deepika Padukone would may get the best actress
awards, while the mainstream will automatically be forced to improve.
Strangely enough you are considering bollywood as indian cinema.That attitude is wrong.There are much more cinema industries are there in india other than bollywood where much more better films are being produced most of the time.
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