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A movie becoming a hit or flop cannot be the only real guideline to declare its worthiness. The right method would be by its content and the narration style, I mean the script and also the screenplay. Without these, the very reason for making a movie would not be properly served. More than two hundred movies get released each year and their quality:quantity ratio doesn't look very convincing. None might have imagined that people could be delivering such mediocre movies in comparison to the black and white period.
Using the demise from the legends in the Shivaji Ganesan era, Tamil cinema has shifted focus from script oriented movies to learn making movies with a few exceptions. In the 60s and 70s, the films once had a strong script and we could see actors emoting with passion and it feels like seeing ourselves on screen. This really is missing in the current films. Either we obtain inspired from the Hollywood movie (or perhaps Korean movies) or remake using their company languages but never inspire people around the world to follow us. Even the name Kollywood (a word which isn't even just in the dictionary) is inspired from the west. We still love our Tamil movies, thanks to our limited contact with Hollywood.
Right now Tamil cinema is within a mould with a predefined template that specifies the required number of songs, fights, comedy, love and sentiment inside a movie. And we refer to it as the "perfect mixture" for a blockbuster. Apparently, the actors too experienced this mould, which becomes a safe bet for hits. So the directors stopped trying and also got along with what the audience wanted. In Kollywood, each actor is associated with some types of roles. You will find mass heroes, romantic ones, action kings and so forth. Therefore, an actor is repeatedly forced to decided on a role based on their fan's expectations. Our actors are extremely talented. They are, much better than us criticizing them, but it is the expectation of their fans, that stops them from trying different characters. So whom do we blame? fans? actors? directors? I'd say everyone, within the same order. A film needs to be consistent at the first place. If it's a comedy movie, it be considered a complete comedy treat. If it's a thriller, it ought to be jam packed with twists and thrills. I do not comprehend the need of a romantic song in a thriller movie or fight scenes in comedy flicks. No more unnecessary songs unless the situation demands one, as well as on the whole, we don't need to see 2 hour 40 minute movies anymore. This template based movie concept needs to change.
The reason why there aren't much futuristic films is that the directors don't see the next. Except some passionate directors who take their soul into their movies, other directors think movie making like a profession. Movie making is an art and if one makes it a profession, only then do we lose that magical charm, that is present in yesteryear movies. A director needs to visualize the outcome of the movie, which is really important because it creates a road map for his team and motivate them. A director needs lot of grit to project such visionary ideas. There are large amount of compromises a director has to make to fulfill large amount of people in route so when he looks back, the movie might have been a little/lot different from what he intended to create. To think, create a movie and adhere to your theme requires a different kind of courage, which only few directors have. A director needs guts to stand with his script and never change based on the hero's image or fan's expectations. If the small change is made, then am sure quality would increase by a lot.
Nowadays the prosperity of a movie within the opening week depends upon the extensive marketing through the movie promoters. They flood the television channels using the trailers that contain only good scenes in the movie. Deceived by the trailer, we walk to the theater to obtain the real story. And that's how the distributors earn money in the opening week. Cant blame them, they're pure business owners. They are doing their job and accordingly the directors need to stay with their job, that is creating quality movies and not worry about profits and opening sales. Overall, all of us have that you follow their jobs and try not poking their noses around.
There has to be movies like Kahaani & Arundathi which are heroine oriented. It's about time we do not use our ladies just for songs and romance. The directors have to pen down scripts for these talented ladies to exhibit their skills. Making an Indian movie is more difficult than the Hollywood ones because of the very existence of sophisticated masala element in every frame. Directors have to focus on just one storyline in an effective manner. The stunts in Indian films looks very unrealistic and unearthly. The bottom line is, both Indian and Hollywood movies are of the same theme, good fighting against the bad, good trying to save the nation, with few fights n few kisses. However the way of bringing it out like a package differs. It means the technique of conveying exactly the same message inside a gift wrapped box. If you take movies like Xmen, harry potter, they may be illogical but that's fantasy. Though illogical, the western people know the knack of presenting the most dumbest things on earth but still pull off an enormous applause from the audience. Might be it's all regulated using the presentation. Even if we fantasize, it might still contain songs, fights and the main ingredient "masala".
I feel devastated when Tamil audience stand and clap for characters like superman, batman or any-man. Actually, we're not envious of these however it makes us wonder when this kind of ovation is going to happen to our actors. Am sure our script writers are very talented to think out of the box but they're redirected by the hero's image who are consequently redirected by their fans. Just how long are we going to keep watching mass masala movies, without any quality script? Moreover, it's the matter of audience being educative enough to simply accept the creativity from the directors. It is the very fear of not accepted through the audience that's driving away many talented directors from innovating their scripts and screenplay. So long as the crowd don't change their perspective and accept a variety of good movies, quality won't improve.
