We, Indians, talk majorly, and in common, about three things Cricket, Politics & Films. These things become quite essential in almost every one’s day today activities. People read, view, discuss about these things through paper, TVs, internet, forums, etc.,
Films in India have now 100 years of history but we are not diving deep into its formation and growth and we are not into films technicalities at all. It’s about people who watch and certain people who create movies.
Already we are influenced and getting influenced daily by western way of living and thinking and we are trying to exhibit such behaviours and attitudes by all means. Films too had a huge impact and here films are inclusive of music (songs) too.
There are quite a lot of directors who have created movies which showed/showing stories and characters in Tamilian way. Story use to revolve around local places and characters react native. But off late we have offered tamil -ised stories and characters whose reactions and plot to some extent resembled western kind.
Though the influences from west side have started since independence it started spreading by late 80s’ and grown highly after 90s’, when globalisation introduced in India. Many Hollywood films have inspired our major/ top directors and it in turn have inspired our major/top audience and it made them look and feel sophisticated/ upper class/ logical/ no non-sense, orthodox, et al, if they end to watch inspired movies.
If one tends to watch local content films the he wouldn’t be called as sophisticated/ orthodox. So we could see divisions as A, B, C centre films or mall films or commercial films or art films or mass movies. We tend to celebrate, praise, and support, for long period, the directors who create movies with western influence or inspiration. And a director who creates movies with local inspiration tends to rated less than so called sophisticated directors.
Godfather is one movie which influenced many more directors not only in India but worldwide. It had its Indian versions in the name of Nayagan, Devarmagan, Sarkar I & II. Among these films Nayagan is the first of the series which even had many scenes replicated but Devarmagan tooks its essence and tamilised aptly and so with Sarkar too. After Nayagan in tamil cinema the new trend started in good way and it also showed the way for many directors to get influenced by Hollywood movies and remake it here without any rights. And today the directors who haven’t followed that trend made their way out on their own.
This influential has made some good directors too. Movies like Sethu, Pithmagan, Kadal, Paruthiveeran, Subramaniapuram, Kalavani with local content and flavour turned many heads and towards native film making idea. But still why is that many of us awaits the sophisticated directors’s films? Just because we too will be called as sophisticated persons? Or to just show off that we are not non-sense and we will watch movies with only logical stuff? To let others know that we are classy people?
But everything said we have to accept that we need to react to the current world situations.
Films in India have now 100 years of history but we are not diving deep into its formation and growth and we are not into films technicalities at all. It’s about people who watch and certain people who create movies.
Already we are influenced and getting influenced daily by western way of living and thinking and we are trying to exhibit such behaviours and attitudes by all means. Films too had a huge impact and here films are inclusive of music (songs) too.
There are quite a lot of directors who have created movies which showed/showing stories and characters in Tamilian way. Story use to revolve around local places and characters react native. But off late we have offered tamil -ised stories and characters whose reactions and plot to some extent resembled western kind.
Though the influences from west side have started since independence it started spreading by late 80s’ and grown highly after 90s’, when globalisation introduced in India. Many Hollywood films have inspired our major/ top directors and it in turn have inspired our major/top audience and it made them look and feel sophisticated/ upper class/ logical/ no non-sense, orthodox, et al, if they end to watch inspired movies.
If one tends to watch local content films the he wouldn’t be called as sophisticated/ orthodox. So we could see divisions as A, B, C centre films or mall films or commercial films or art films or mass movies. We tend to celebrate, praise, and support, for long period, the directors who create movies with western influence or inspiration. And a director who creates movies with local inspiration tends to rated less than so called sophisticated directors.
Godfather is one movie which influenced many more directors not only in India but worldwide. It had its Indian versions in the name of Nayagan, Devarmagan, Sarkar I & II. Among these films Nayagan is the first of the series which even had many scenes replicated but Devarmagan tooks its essence and tamilised aptly and so with Sarkar too. After Nayagan in tamil cinema the new trend started in good way and it also showed the way for many directors to get influenced by Hollywood movies and remake it here without any rights. And today the directors who haven’t followed that trend made their way out on their own.
This influential has made some good directors too. Movies like Sethu, Pithmagan, Kadal, Paruthiveeran, Subramaniapuram, Kalavani with local content and flavour turned many heads and towards native film making idea. But still why is that many of us awaits the sophisticated directors’s films? Just because we too will be called as sophisticated persons? Or to just show off that we are not non-sense and we will watch movies with only logical stuff? To let others know that we are classy people?
But everything said we have to accept that we need to react to the current world situations.
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