The idea of this topic in my blog is just to share our discussion and also to welcome your valuable views about the topic. I will better jump into the topic straight way..
Arun started talking about Salaam Cinema, a movie directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, which he saw in the weekend. Our argument started about the director’s experimental movies. Arun was so excited about these experimental movies. I guess it was inspiring for a budding filmmaker like him. I am first a big fan of movies rather than an editor.
So I started the argument saying that director should reach the audience. Ultimate goal of a movie is to take message to the viewers. If they fail to do it I feel somewhere the director has lost track. I am not against experimental movies. They are inspiring. Still only A class audience watch them.( In cinema, A class audience we call as the highly educated audience, B class are middle class audience and C class are the audience living in every corner of your country and state) People generally say that C class audience are the major viewers of a movie. If not in other countries, in Tamil Nadu it works this way.
Coming back to the topic, I feel that a director should do both commercial and experimental movie. By doing commercial movies he is slowly bringing the audience to watch experimental movies without their knowledge. In a way we are bringing good cinema to them. That is how I feel we can change the audience taste.
How long are we going to give formula movies to them and give a lame excuse that they like only that. Tollywood or Telgu industry had always been commercial with Balakrishna stopping train. But now see the quality of movies they are giving. Aarya, happy days, anand, etc.. (I have watched only few) all these are commercial movies but they are away from the usual commercial movie. When these directors take an experimental movie I feel that audience will surely watch them even though it might not relate to them. Slowly the trend will change, may not drastically or quickly but will surely change in future.
A director has to create that sort of a platform for the budding film makers. It’s easy to convey message to a literate. The challenge lies taking the same challenge to an illiterate. So I think the directors should take that challenge.
I am not sure whether I am right but I welcome your valuable comments to enrich my thoughts. Of course opinion differs.
4 comments:
Soma
Here goes my version/ vision
http://centurs.blogspot.com/2008/05/salaam-cinema-this-page-is-in-response.html
Cockroach
I agree with you somaa, interesting discussion. As a great fan and critic of cinemas, I enjoy the experimental cinemas. Cinema is a social medium. It should never be confined to creamy layer and film festivals. The experimental film or I can say new good cinema is like good food for HEALTH (But its should not like medicine) But most people especially Section B and C like TASTY FOOD (Commercial formula). The real challenge before directors is how to attract audience towards experimental cinemas. I have great respect of Experimenters. They should make “cosmetic changes” to their experiment to reach the mass with out diluting the core content. Its like making the “HEALTHY” food “TASTIER”. It is a special art. But now-a-days it becomes fashionable for some directors to say that his films confined to particular audience only. He should try to reach mass audience not necessary to all. So many examples “Mozhi” is the best example of successful of experimental approach . Tare sammen par is in hindi in this list. Tamil film industry is lucky to have directors like cheran, bala, Gautham . The success of two tamil cinemas had changed the entire scenario “Pathinarau vayathinela” by Bharathiraja and “Udiri pookal” by Mahaendran. They had only made the cinemas to come out of the studios. As you told Director should reach audience by doing some commercial movies to reach more audience Definitely those audience will come to his next movie (might be for experimental ) . Thus his efforts will be reached. Two legends of Tamil cinemas K.Balachander and Bharathiraja had adopted those strategy. They will do humor (Thillu mullu, ever comedy movie) and thriller movies ( Sigapu Roajakkal , Pioneer Tamil movie based on Psychiatric) respectively among their experimental films to reach mass audience. That’s why they reached more audience. As the films of “Thaneer Thaneer “ and “Karuthamma” had the tag of those directors , It had become a great Hit. Both flims had drawn the significant attention from the government and as well as society. So Directors are highly responsible and should come out of their shell to reach wider audience
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