Hi guys. I am just back home, having watched the movie "Gabar singh" and thought of sharing a few thoughts on the same. This post might draw some criticism, but I feel expression of thought is important, lest it too should die along with the already diminishing creative urge in the movies.
I admit I went to the movie with no high expectations set and was not disappointed that I have not. I would have been disappointed at the movie had I set any. There is this video clip on Facebook doing the rounds from the movie and I found it quite entertaining. Having heard that Pawan Kalyan has scored success on account of the movie being a hit, I had hoped to see another entertainer in the lines of "Khushi". But half way through the movie, I started to realize that this was not my cup of tea
I was lost to point in a direction where the movie was troubling my conscience. Fact be said, the movie has so architecturally unsound that I didn't actually know what to find a fault with; ESPECIALLY the people's audacity in suggesting me to watch the movie and that it was a good one. With the response the movie is receiving, I am flabbergasted at the public's insincerity with themselves. Are they so convinced that they would be ostracized if they begged to differ from the other's opinion? Are they so stubborn in the belief that the creative minds of our film industry don't have much to offer and all that is flung at them in the name of a "mass entertainer" or a movie that matches the "market pulse" must be hogged down with gluttony? I can vividly remember when audiences expected movies to do better than the earlier in terms of humor and thought provoking story line. The viewership had evolved from the village humor from Jandhyala's "Aaha naa pellanta" , to Trivikram Srinivas's sensible narration in "Athadu";From the systematic and thuggish movies such as "Kshana Kshanam" to the coarse and hilarious movies Vamsi had to offer, evolution was forward... People looked forward to movies that exceeded the previous one in bringing contentment in their own merit rather than in terms of Greedy collection figures.
My stance towards the movie is firm, and I reiterate my indignation. The highly intellectual audience deserves better than some non-creative piece of work that tries to live on the glory of another namesake trend setter. I speaking not of this movie alone but of all those "successful works" that are plagiarized and force-fed into the public's throat. Public reaction too suggests that movie makers can have their way and they need not put in any thought or creative effort, but just showcase the cliched movie requirements - a heroine for enacting the lead actor's love interest, a hero whose machismo in unparalleled and a gory villain who does not have any noticeable characteristic traits than inhuman cruelty and a appalling lack of conscience -. We are being stereotyped.
Enhancing the image that a movie's collections are the sole indicator of the picture's merit, people are being mocked by the so called creative heads with the treatment they are being rendered. Patting ourselves on the back today that we are doing good by actually killing real merit would only lower people's expectations for intellect and true art; in a nation that loves and watches movies excessively, this regressing trend of shunning higher forms of action stunts and sci-fi effects to choose crude brute strength portrayals over screen would only reduce the general public's intellect and exposure to real time cinematic capabilities available in the technologically advanced film industry today.It will no wonder if in due course of time Telugu films -which are respected and adored by a majority of the nation's citizens - will be deemed ones with lackluster.Creativity and entrepreneurial instincts are being given a back bench.
If you think I am disenchanted to Indian Cinema by all this, I would say you are misguided. I too am one of the general population who watch, cheer, enjoy and adore movies all the time. They are a significant part of my entertainment and routine. They are and will remain to be one of one our ways of socializing with kith and kin. Expecting better out of something good and best out of something better is always nice right? It must, at the end of the day be our call on getting our money's worth :-)
I admit I went to the movie with no high expectations set and was not disappointed that I have not. I would have been disappointed at the movie had I set any. There is this video clip on Facebook doing the rounds from the movie and I found it quite entertaining. Having heard that Pawan Kalyan has scored success on account of the movie being a hit, I had hoped to see another entertainer in the lines of "Khushi". But half way through the movie, I started to realize that this was not my cup of tea
I was lost to point in a direction where the movie was troubling my conscience. Fact be said, the movie has so architecturally unsound that I didn't actually know what to find a fault with; ESPECIALLY the people's audacity in suggesting me to watch the movie and that it was a good one. With the response the movie is receiving, I am flabbergasted at the public's insincerity with themselves. Are they so convinced that they would be ostracized if they begged to differ from the other's opinion? Are they so stubborn in the belief that the creative minds of our film industry don't have much to offer and all that is flung at them in the name of a "mass entertainer" or a movie that matches the "market pulse" must be hogged down with gluttony? I can vividly remember when audiences expected movies to do better than the earlier in terms of humor and thought provoking story line. The viewership had evolved from the village humor from Jandhyala's "Aaha naa pellanta" , to Trivikram Srinivas's sensible narration in "Athadu";From the systematic and thuggish movies such as "Kshana Kshanam" to the coarse and hilarious movies Vamsi had to offer, evolution was forward... People looked forward to movies that exceeded the previous one in bringing contentment in their own merit rather than in terms of Greedy collection figures.
My stance towards the movie is firm, and I reiterate my indignation. The highly intellectual audience deserves better than some non-creative piece of work that tries to live on the glory of another namesake trend setter. I speaking not of this movie alone but of all those "successful works" that are plagiarized and force-fed into the public's throat. Public reaction too suggests that movie makers can have their way and they need not put in any thought or creative effort, but just showcase the cliched movie requirements - a heroine for enacting the lead actor's love interest, a hero whose machismo in unparalleled and a gory villain who does not have any noticeable characteristic traits than inhuman cruelty and a appalling lack of conscience -. We are being stereotyped.
Enhancing the image that a movie's collections are the sole indicator of the picture's merit, people are being mocked by the so called creative heads with the treatment they are being rendered. Patting ourselves on the back today that we are doing good by actually killing real merit would only lower people's expectations for intellect and true art; in a nation that loves and watches movies excessively, this regressing trend of shunning higher forms of action stunts and sci-fi effects to choose crude brute strength portrayals over screen would only reduce the general public's intellect and exposure to real time cinematic capabilities available in the technologically advanced film industry today.It will no wonder if in due course of time Telugu films -which are respected and adored by a majority of the nation's citizens - will be deemed ones with lackluster.Creativity and entrepreneurial instincts are being given a back bench.
If you think I am disenchanted to Indian Cinema by all this, I would say you are misguided. I too am one of the general population who watch, cheer, enjoy and adore movies all the time. They are a significant part of my entertainment and routine. They are and will remain to be one of one our ways of socializing with kith and kin. Expecting better out of something good and best out of something better is always nice right? It must, at the end of the day be our call on getting our money's worth :-)
