RE: [nukkad] Movies and Reality

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Dear MC Guptaji
               By the statement “movies in tune with reality”,  I don’t mean 
that movies should mirror real life. I’m no fan of art movies of the Mrinal 
Sen/Adoor Goplakrishnan & Co genre. Nor do I insist that movies should be 
devoid of fantasy and supernatural aspects. I had my fair share of Superman, 
Batman, and Spiderman.  But then remember those are all fictitious 
characters bearing no resemblance to anyone in real life.  While dealing 
with current affairs like Cricket and Pakistan, isn’t it better to reflect 
things at least close to reality rather portraying them diagonally opposite. 
  Also what about using movies as propaganda machinery? As long as the 
propaganda is for the betterment of humanity it is perfectly all right but 
on the other hand if it is used to instil jingoism and false illusion about 
the nation, things start moving in the wrong track. With regards to the 
purpose of making movies, I fully agree with you that producer’s main motive 
is to make profit but then is that alone the only motive. In spite of the 
filmmakers having no responsibility to reform the society I believe that 
because of the fact that movies command a mass audience and since movies 
influence people a lot, films should be practical as well as logical and the 
filmmaker has an unwritten role in it.  Just  my humble opinion.



Bye


Netgeek
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