Okay well here's what I was planning to write in my old post before the subject of facebook stealthily creeped into it (I'm serious- That was not what I was planning to write about!). Anyway, that's the thing, I was so clueless about what to write to at least motivate myself to start blogging again. I thought long and hard and looked everywhere for some inspiration. The best way to get that, as I thought, was to look for it by watching TV and scanning through the latest newspapers. And just when I was reading, reading, reading for a new idea to get those juices flowing- it hit me; Why the standards of the public media in India piss me off.
Yeah, really they do and for good reason. To begin with, I hate the newspaper reports because they are so unbelievably standard. And I guess I'm a total weirdo for thinking this, because apparently, that is the accepted, professional format of writing for their papers. Total, useless crap. I mean, the first thing that crossed my mind when I was comparing 'The Hindu' articles to the stuff I read in books and on blogs etc. was how much difference they have between them. BIG TIME! Let's take a look:
"When it rains, it pours in Goa. The city, so famous for its beaches and parties, pauses to take a breather when the heavens opens up. A weekend getaway is rewarding nevertheless if you love being in an idyllic setting. As you drive down the airport all you get to see is lush greenery."
You're probably reading this and thinking "she's mad". Yes, I know this is beautiful and totally elegant but seriously, this kind of stuff is all over the papers day after day, don't you think it's a little overused? Wait...Did I say 'little'? I meant criminally overused. The fact is that writing bucketloads of meaningless articles full of big, flowery, flamboyant words is not gonna make a difference! My point is, most of the stuff that goes into the public newspapers these days are plain, irrelevant and just downright fake. It would really help if they talked about things in Goa we didn't know about...the little insides stories, written with a little more of an exciting perspective. That's why the "free/opinion column" in NXG is always a bit more interesting to read.They say writing is a window to the soul, but some of the trash that's supposed to be entertaining us is nothing more than a window to a bunch of deadline-ruled careers and a sheer lack of imagination.
Something else that cracks me up at times but sometimes really gets under my skin is the multitude of stupidly fake movies. Or rather, fake concepts in movies. I'm usually the one to advocate fantasy, illogical stories and go against people who want fiction to be based on realism because of the fact that you're not celebrating the freedom and limitlessness of fiction by giving it the restriction of reality. But the fact is, sometimes we take this freedom a bit too far on the pretext of which we happily transgress the bounds of sensibleness and class...and we end up with a sorry work of stupidity. A far fetched idea is one thing, while a far fetched, completely moronic portrayal of an idea is something completely different. Movies and TV shows of all languages are guilty of this, but as far as the entertainment used in India is concerned, Hollywood movies are a bit better at obscuring their stupidities than their Indian counterparts.
In the olden days, the movies were supposed to be extra-dramatic just like theater but that's supposed to have tone down a bit over the decades. Some movie casts forget about this and we still have a lot of phoney roles on the big screen. You know, the sleazy superheroes, secret agents and businessmen or the wayyyyy too laid out "gangstas". The most cheezing off are the I'm-way-too-cool-to-act-anything close-to-human so called "sophisticates". The kind who have something elegant to say all the time, the kind who never slip and the kind who are fascinated by nothing. Sometimes, these phony characters are adorably funny but at others times they can just be plain annoying.
Indian movies take this a notch higher and make every little love affair the most empathetic melodrama you've ever cast your eyes on. Enter destiny, flower petals, romantic music and the crying. We even have fixed roles for the guy and for the girl and it goes a bit a like this; The Romeo is always flawless, get's a bit angry and reckless at times, can lift a monster truck and beat ten muscular gangsters silly without messing up even a single lock of hair. The Juliets have a longer and more tedious list of qualifications. She has to be dazzlingly beautiful, super well dressed (even if she's handling a pig-sty), have a beautiful voice, amazing dance moves and have the ability to be attractive to every human being in the vicinity. What's even more sickening is that not only does she have to be elegant and poised, but also extremely bubbly, child-like, adventurous, down-to-earth and never, ever ridiculed. It's a cute way to represent a girl, but every single time, you happen to turn on the TV you have these oh-so-glamorous beauty queens who are flawless, bubbling angels. Now that gets very sickening.
The list of "phonytics" is never ending, but my blog or my energy isn't so I'll stop talking at this. Now your turn; what do you like or dislike about the media? Idiotic concepts? Mundane articles? What would you change ?
This is how i think of indian movies they spend crores and crores of money just to get it back, they don't care if filmmaking is an art or not, they ripoff holywood stories and add shitty special effects. its not that they dont have talent, they are lazy as hell and have already reduced the taste of viewers so low that making an above average movie is considered a great one.
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Nice article.
This is how i think of indian movies
they spend crores and crores of money just to get it back, they don't care if filmmaking is an art or not, they ripoff holywood stories and add shitty special effects. its not that they dont have talent, they are lazy as hell and have already reduced the taste of viewers so low that making an above average movie is considered a great one.