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Pulp Fiction writes about Contemporary Hindi Cinema :
Only mediocrity is worshipped all over the world. This world works on a formula and that is ‘escapism’ and ‘feel-good’. Come what may, meaningful cinema is not going to take over in terms of the numbers. As I quoted Hesse a few posts earlier - “I know it today: Nothing in this world is more repugnant to a man than following the path that leads to himself.”We will always produce more garbage. The point is that instead of mediocrity, we are worshipping trash. The problem is that instead of producing more garbage than meaningful, almost all we are producing is garbage. And the worst part is that its being celebrated too. The ‘karva-chauth’ genre movies have taken over the box office. Not just that, its also taken over the society with its touch of feel-good. Thats the USP of the karva-chauth cinema.
We actually put so much masala in our movies that it ultimately becomes masala bullshit instead of biryani. I remember my favorite actor Naseeruddin Shah commenting in one of his interviers that after 20 years or so if our kids will ask us to show how we lived and how was india ? We wont have single movie to show the real india and indians.
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Dear Friend,
Congrats for you deep love of cinema. But with all due respect I want to point bring forth a diffrent point of you. When you criticize cinema or for that matter any thing - do you criticize objectivly or are you aware of your own cultural/political/etc biases?
Since you have come down heavily on cinema, I would like to point it out that it is but a reflection of society. Some times, art dictates reality but mostly it is the society which governs what art is.
Now, in every era there have been people who react violently to the changing for of art in their time. They do it becaues they see it as a degradiation of “their” notion of art. You my friend are also reacting the way you are because your notion of art is being challenged by what you see in the world today. This is a high browed way of looking at things. If you think todays cinema is shitty… too bad you live in a world that loves shit or the perception of quality has changed and you have not caught up with it. You can not just dismiss what millions of people are loving just like that. Their can be many reasons why people are enjoying the so called “shit” - lifestyles, role reversal of the classes (poor dictating the market then rich) etc…
There can be many reasons… but dear friend, before passing judgemental and sweeping comments on the sensibalities of the world you your basic research. Don’t talk about things you don’t know about… just because you have a space to brag…
Yours sincearly.
hpk
hpk@nid.edu
Dear HPK,
Thanks for posting your comment. First of all once upon a time I was myself in the film industry and I know the ‘people’ and the ‘place’.
But I will completely agree with you that may be the perception of the quality has changed and my ideas are outdated. How can I dismiss the sensibilities of millions of people.
And I also agree that I am not a expert on this matter.
You might not be agreeing with me but I do agree with you that (as you said -Some times, art dictates reality but mostly it is the society which governs what art is.
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I wish I could research over Indian Cinema, Indian Society and Indian Reality is there a link in between these and does cinema reflect it ?
Regards,
Santosh Kumar
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