MOVIES …MY VIEWS…

I missed the Oscars this time. If I go in the right path via my medulla to my sub-conscious mind ,I used to watch it with an awe, awe of don’t know what , but , yes there was something fancier in the Oscars than the BAFTA and the Globes, for sure. I watched Denzel Washington grabbing it, even watched it slipping from the hands of Amir Khan, saw Russell Crowe admiring it and even saw Mel Gibson accepting it with a Brave Heart.
This time as I have stated before, didn’t see it but such was the range of hearing the vibrations, the fascinations of the event that it went past all the benevolence of my vision. Slumdog … was in it, though a British film but as the critics say its body heart and the brains are made in India. We won it, won it big time now and, also in a big way, but somewhere the foreign element remains. They say that the fair skin that slender rim, of Danny Boyle, and hopefully the posh brain of his did the trick. No points still are given to Indian style, Indian songs , Indian actors and therefore amidst all the jubilation a simmer comes that…”had this not been a foreign film then ..tch..tch…tch.
The point is that after so many ‘ladies in gold’ we still , I mean the Indian films still find themselves suspended in a rusted iron chamber. Movies here come and go, perhaps in largest nos but still we lack, lack many things , let’s list these so called accusations in a point form……

ACCUSATION 1 - We lack the ever so important thing, the concept, the logic, which you know is the backbone of a motion film.
MY VIEW – I guess for a film we need not have a strong concept, it’s the feel, the emotions that matter, eventually which turn out to be the divine logic. And films here or anywhere are not made for a particular engineer or a doctor ,to churn out all the logics, its made to give a person a new world of 2.5 hrs. which we surely do provide.

ACCUSATION 2 - The songs, useless dabble of 3 minutes, should cut them off.
MY VIEW – If they are so , so useless then why have you kept it in the Oscars. And yes, songs are not dabble, they are like rivers that take past the boats of our feeling in the most peaceful way , to an island, which we fondly call heaven. They are not 3-4 MBs of space , but a soulful 4 minutes which fills the heart with unnerving ecstacy , thus defining humanity, they are pure, there are pious and we, the followers of a 3000 old great culture, are proud that they are the part of our films.JAI HO…

ACCUSATION 3 – We are too long….2.5 to 3 hrs. are too much.
MY VIEW – For us , films are not a lesson , they aren’t a chapter either,they are like a story, a story which is created for a person, not just to see it but to visit it, get inside it and live that story. We don’t make film of 3 hrs , what we do is that we make a world of its own which plays in you, lays in you, lives in you for 3 hrs. 3 hours, this way is a very short time.

ACCUSATION 4 - We are not committed (esp. in intimate scenes). We don’t have guts to move further.
MY VIEW – Yes you are right , we don’t have guts, guts to move against our values, our tradition. You know where we fall short, eventually catching the soul of the film, its just that we bring film for the masses, not for stringently divided classes. And as far as intimacy ,the euphemism for sex, is concerned, sex is too great, too divine, too logical a thing to be shown in a film. And as far as boldness is concerned movies like Page-3, Corporate are enough bold , enough committed to even teach us a thing or too.

ACCUSATION 5 -We lack stories………..
MY VIEW – To this lot of people I want to say that, first watch RDB, watch the ever so serene Saransh, get a closer look at Devdas, and then take home the idea of what a story is all about, what a script is all about. Of course there have been copies, I would be lying if I deny it, but I will be lying all the more if I deny the fact that the stories of ours are like a guitar ,cords of which give goose bumps to the westerners through the Oscars taken by Gandhi and Slumdog.

So like these , there are many other accusation, but let’s stick to them. These aren’t that much of our problems, the problems are the people who make them and sadly they are WE. Yes some of the bigger hypocrites amongst us. Bigger because someway or the other we all are hypocrites, never admiring our own , but yes envying the other one’s , all the more if its TRANS ATLANTIC. The need of the hour is not to answer those accusations , but to shed that cruelity in us and believe in the BPL’s logo ,’coz we certainly are the BEST.