I have loved Cinema... each and every thing about Cinema makes me go crazy.... I adore cinema in all it's forms and styles.... however I am not one of those who has been an avant-garde intellectual who speaks about the 'great creations' of cinema....
I am a simple man... the cinema I love is the Cinema I was born and brought up with... the cinema that many may find escapist or too thoroughfare to be given a place of respect... my cinema is simple and it talks simple enough terms....
So of course I will talk of the Cinema of my heart.... although predominantly Hindustani in language and here I mean the twin sisters Hindi and Urdu.... I may at times also talk of some of the films that touched my heart deeply.... these maybe English or it may very well be one of the regional cinema that also boasts of a number of beautiful jewels.....
Indian Cinema is not only Hindi Cinema although if there is one art that binds the nation today and even those parts of the nation that are erstwhile... it's Hindi / Urdu Cinema.... the one I call Hindustani Cinema.... there have been great films and artistes all over India but my understanding and knowledge has been more attuned to the Hindustani genre... still I will take out time and write about the others too as my heart says.... whether Marathi, Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, Assamese, Punjabi or any of the others.. they have also enriched my cinema and so has Hindustani Cinema enriched them.... a cross-pollination across the times extending from the early days of last century and still maintaining that magic today....
I have heard a great deal about the great divide between the Art and the Commercial worlds of cinema and nothing makes me feel worse than such an artificial divide..... All Cinema is a work of art performed with the aid of science and technology and with a commercial angle to it.....
Economists may talk a lot about psychic fulfilment by production of a film that only satisfies the creative urge of the creator..... but is there something actually called as 'satisfaction of a creative urge'..... even the most reclusive of the makers expects appreciation and when such appreciation is demanded, it has to be bestowed in a form that makes it worthwhile.....
What's the use of an appreciation that does not allow one the right to again satisfy another 'creative urge'..... for no urge, whether creative or non-creative is a one-time affair.... it keeps repeating and it keeps calling for more attention and one can only be absorbed by another attempt.... in case, the project is not economically viable who is going to spend his hard-earned money on it..... after all, even the artist has a stomach and needs food even if he is enlightened enough to stay on the roads and roam naked as if on the streets of ancient Babylon....
So.. I believe in Cinema as one whole thing..... there can only be one definition of Cinema... either it can be Good Cinema or it can be Bad Cinema... in fact this is also a very clumsy label... the worst of the Cinemas have some redeeming aspect and the best of cinema may have a glitch....
So.. how do we then classify Cinema.... I would say ... the only way would be to classify it as one that inspires us to a newer and better Cinema or one that forces us to wring our hands in despair.. thinking what could have been!
Like George Best and his brand of soccer that never reached the World Cup makes people think what could have been.... Like the chess of Bobby Fischer that bloomed erratically all his life and makes people think what more could have been..... Like the cricket of Vinod Kambli that forces us to think of what we could have enjoyed.... so also, there are movies that make us feel what could have been....
About Me
- The Beast
- Simply put - a Bundle of Contradictions. Prince Charming this moment; Heartless Tyrant the next. - as humble as Water that flows down - as fiery as Fire that moves up - as restless as the Wind that's always on the move - as calm as Time that endures - As predictable as the Sun whose path has never strayed - As Unpredictable as the Human Mind that changes every second - as deep as the Sea that hides secrets - as shallow as a river who shares exuberance - as lofty as the mountains who think - as mundane as the sand dunes who act - as silent as the night that prefers Anonymity - as noisy as the monsoon that announces itself - as unchanging as the desert - as flexible as the city. One who can frustrate the most patient of men and still be as calm as the fool who thinks he knows everything. Distinctly Mad but with a method in the madness and a madness in the method. Defiant in loss and Magnanimous in Victory. Firm in Commitment but Not worthy of Love. A coward before battle but a fierce warrior once in battle... In short.. A Devil and a Human.. Nothing else!
6 comments:
mind blowing..!!
well i thnk u cud hav even mentioned sum disadvantages too..!
yeah voldy itz kewl!!
write more yaar!!
ID,
As i always said you've got amazing writing skill its just flawless...i am 100% agree with the concept of 'Hindustani Cinema' but i think regional cinema also need to be accepted as 'Hindustani Cinema'.well, may be you have some different vision regarding this matter.
I found your deep grievances and anger in paragraph no.6,7 n 8,which proves your deep attachment with YOUR CINEMA NAYYYYYYY OUR CINEMA.....
by the way tell the people read your blog properly n then comment.here u r not for creating debates or as such.it says about your thoughts,feeling and deep attachment with your dream with your cinema one more suggestion at free of cost share your joy with everyone but don't share your dreams n pain,because i'll never allow any such comment which is against your dreams.
last but not least...i'm moved once again.....
yours,
R
Gud work........voldy....keep it up..!!!
I have met many a lot, but god has been gracious to make us meet.
Your love of cinema. Hmmm... What should I say. Since I know you in
person I may not necessarily be able to make comments which are 100%
right in open. Your love is boundless, your fetish for it rather. You
look deep inside it and see what others are or may not be able to do.
There is a definite difference since you see it through your art, not
possibly commercial, but through your eyes, but to remember every
moment of it, but live it, but breathe it, but eat it, but drink it,
but talk it, but DREAM it. You are a common man too but your love for
cinema is uncommon. About others- people like me, watch them possibly
for just to have a life little larger than life. To live that moment
only. And may be what relates and makes us amused, we dream to have
that little larger picture someday. But only somehow for
entertainment. I agree to one of the posts. Never share such things.
You never know who can take advantage of it.
I know its a late comment on your post, the last I did, somehow was not posted.
Also there will be people who would only watch cinema to have a
breather some their normal life and have fun. I would love to see
something from you like this. A Hindi word called 'kataksh' where the
humor is dry and sarcastic. Where you film it to show life in such
humor. One film on common man which was not such a good hit, but it
was simply simple in its own ways. Something like Jaan jaye par wachan
na jaaye. Which had Raveena Tandon in it. I am more than confident
that you can write wonderfully on that.
Well I'll stop here else it will look like my Blog and not a post:-).
Yours
K
The first exposure to motion pictures which India received was in 1896 when Lumier’s brothers made six silence films and screened them in Bombay’s Watson hotel.
From the time so far to the one nearby, Cinema were and will be of two forms. Good and bad cinema. We cannot even dream of placing timeless classic “Godfather” and Indian flop “Oonch neech beach” in the same bag. We cannot place Spielberg’s jewel “Schiendler’s List” and vulgar sign “Showgirls” in again the same bag, though I accept that all forms of cinema are pieces of art. Bad ones are those which got directors with no understanding of art.
Good movies sometimes earn money and other times they don’t. “Citizen Kane” is the greatest Hollywood movie of all time although it was flop. “Silence of the lambs” was a box office hit though getting poor rating from critics. But the real masterpiece is made standing out from the thought of success.
A piece of art is not a one if it is carved out on the basis of money.
Hindustani cinema for me is like a bird that wanta fly without using its wings,even though it has the healthy one. It’s like having quality brush, top class paints, costly canvas but lacking a good painter.
From what I have seen, there are very few movies without bunch of lacks. Even Classic Like “Mother India” has lots. Here we use actors like Anupam Kher as stupid mama in flop “Dulhan Hum Le Jayenge”.
Sometimes here when much acclaimed picture is made it become so boring that it’s impossible to watch. They are movies like putting a camera in front of a man and record everything he does. Like shyam benegal parallel movies. They are good. A piece of art but those are really very boring. A good movie doest not mean that it should be truly real and should only depict serious concepts.
From what I have seen directors don’t usually try hard to make movies. They just do it to earn money, low budgeted, bad and old story line based movies like all of Ram Gopal Verma’s.
Though from the time before there had been many films which came and were the best depiction of whatever they depict. Hindustani cinema is different and many of time have given superb classic.
Still there is lot to be learned. Still there is more love and art to be pondered.
Like you I too have love for cinema, but yours is just unmatchable. I love it as a art, you as a heart.
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