There is either inordinate reverence or deplorable scarcity of originality or simply the lack of courage in the minds of filmmakers who find they must resort to the Ramayan or Mahabharat to make a saleable flick.
I strongly suspect the latter.
Raavan, following closely on the heels of Raajneeti just left me confounded. Why two obviously intelligent directors with excellent track records made films that were so obviously shallow, pointless and implausible beats me.
Agreed that these epics are deep wells to draw from, with intricately woven characters and social backgrounds relevant to all eras; but surely there’s a reason they were television serials, to quote Mayank Shekhar.
Exploring deeply into a particular character or relationship is always fascinating, as is depicting a particular portion of the narrative. But to reduce entire epics into two and half hours of banal travesties, well, that’s something else again.
All I can hope for is that others take a lesson and don’t go that way.
first off, alarming ratio of filmi posts to total posts! whew
ReplyDeletelike the way you've put it.
a different point of view
rajneeti... an effort to drive away kalyug?
several of my friends actually went back and read the mahabharata to revise it and figure out who was karan and who arjun... can we hope that this neo-erudition would banish kalyug? note that we're entering the realms of spiritualism :D
well, i'm a self confessed movie buff.
ReplyDeletethe implausibility is overpowering.
and as for the spiritual aspect, it's like u said 4 3i. it this the only way people can be made to read?