It is said that in India, Politics, Cricket and Cinema are celebrated the most. well, I would say not just the most but the only three things. Of course, if you don't count the festivals otherwise we are, just the best place for dairy milk celebrations to be sold. Cutting aside education, family, and religion these are the three things we mostly indulge with. The three things we look up to keep us functioning in the form of a system, to be zealous in the form of a victory, to be entertained in the form of an escape. And since Politics and cricket are often occasioned but yet not always like cinema, so what we usually have around us is Cinema and what we usually do in our leisure time is be entertained. be entertained either by the fictional tales the actors of movies or the fictional tales of the actors' life. one way or other its just the filmygyan we want, a fallacy and its because in India movies sedate us. make us numb and seduce us to believe that all is well.
Pretty much everything that is missing in our life is shown in a Bollywood movie. Its plot is scripted specifically to fill the lackings of our real life. The tragic ends of our love stories get perfect endings there. Our dreams and aspirations that are stifled by our neighbors, our parents and sometimes by Sharma ji's son are soared high in a theatre with immense possibilities. the compassion and kindness and civility that we often forget to show to others or sometimes narrowed by religious creed are amended in a 3hrs fictional tale. The criminals and corrupted leader those who rob us and deprive us of our rights are only brought to book/ justice in the climax of a movie. And thankfully the sensuality in our love that was always censured by moral policing is now making its way into our life uncensored on the screen. so for a common man in India, be it a kid who aspires to be an artist but made to pursue engineering or a teenager who is too shy to convey his love or will never be able to because love jihad or a mother who has been taking rounds of a court without even a glint of justice for her daughter would always resort to a typical Bollywood movie to intentionally confuse their life with a 3 hrs fictional script that precisely caters what they want.
we don't visit theatres to explore or to know or to be curious. We just go to be disillusioned. to feel that all is well. to get a lifestyle that we don't have. And sometimes those actors who sell us such lifestyles captivate us so much so that we end up buying their identity as well. We start following them recklessly, walking like them, talking like them, dressing up like them and sometimes even assessing our situations in life as they would and such fanaticism doesn't just cost our identity but what worse is when those actors whom we follow so enthusiastically, take up law in their hand, we instead protesting against them become their henchmen and try to absolve them of their immoral behaviour.
And all of these stems from one fundamental problem and that is "our meager lifestyle". if we could make our life a bit entertaining in itself, we won't have borrowed it from the movies. give us the freedom in choosing our career so that we could make our work as entertaining as a movie. give us the flexibility in expressing our love beyond religion and caste so that we won't have to reciprocate it from the character of a film. ensure us a just governance and justice for all so that there wouldn't be any mother or anybody who would have to console herself with just a movie. And with all these, we won't just make our life more meaningful and have a better lifestyle but we would free movies in India from the shackles of our need. Movies won't be made anymore to compensate for our life. It won't always be good vs evil or actions defying physics or so heavily carried with romantic love but it would rather be a point of view, a unique perspective of the director, an art.
we don't visit theatres to explore or to know or to be curious. We just go to be disillusioned. to feel that all is well. to get a lifestyle that we don't have. And sometimes those actors who sell us such lifestyles captivate us so much so that we end up buying their identity as well. We start following them recklessly, walking like them, talking like them, dressing up like them and sometimes even assessing our situations in life as they would and such fanaticism doesn't just cost our identity but what worse is when those actors whom we follow so enthusiastically, take up law in their hand, we instead protesting against them become their henchmen and try to absolve them of their immoral behaviour.
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And all of these stems from one fundamental problem and that is "our meager lifestyle". if we could make our life a bit entertaining in itself, we won't have borrowed it from the movies. give us the freedom in choosing our career so that we could make our work as entertaining as a movie. give us the flexibility in expressing our love beyond religion and caste so that we won't have to reciprocate it from the character of a film. ensure us a just governance and justice for all so that there wouldn't be any mother or anybody who would have to console herself with just a movie. And with all these, we won't just make our life more meaningful and have a better lifestyle but we would free movies in India from the shackles of our need. Movies won't be made anymore to compensate for our life. It won't always be good vs evil or actions defying physics or so heavily carried with romantic love but it would rather be a point of view, a unique perspective of the director, an art.
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