It’s a lazy Sunday afternoon and the weather is all gloomy, I say that because it looks like as if its going to rain, but its hasn’t since morning, and I am toying around with my laptop with a hundred thoughts running through my mind about what to write, but I cant really think of anything in particular, as I have those hundreds of thoughts hovering all over, and as I try to filter the thoughts, I crystallize to a thought, and that is; what do most people do on Sunday’s? The answer is go out partying, go out to eat and off course go to the movies, so lets talk movies.
Each passing day, the movies get bigger and bigger, in terms of their appeal to the common man, and I am not be wrong to say that in India the movies are almost another religion, that irrespective of any caste, creed or race many people follow and practice. But that is not what I’d like to bring out in this piece of mine, being a filmmaker myself, I have observed from both the sides as a filmmaker and as an audience. That every film made in whatever language comes with a certain kind of expectation, and that is a little eerie, I say that because every time one goes for a movie and that includes me too, most often one comes out with ohh I thought it would have been this…, this hero was not good, the story could have been told better etc etc. I fail to understand that sometimes a movie may just be a simply story told, but its just not understood, it is just not possible that every movie you go for will be ohh what movie superb or maybe even fuberb.
To my logical reasoning a part of this whole process falling this way, can be built by the producers as they put in the money into making a movie, so at times in order to make their returns the most attractive, the message they send out is distorted and thus resulting in the creation of a false image which further translates in a failed expectation of a particular movie. We all know that there is commerce behind the production of movies, but I think we need to understand, that the movies are also stories told to masses on medium that almost makes it real, and hence any interference or a distortion of the message will result into an unsuccessful movie product. I guess that also explains that despite churning less the 1/3 of the total production that Indian Cinema produces the revenues of Hollywood are almost triple the amount of the combined revenues.
Anyway coming back, it simply makes more sense to watch movies that you feel like watching rather going for a movie that you feel an external force is pushing you to watch, because in such a scenario you are less likely to feel disappointed and more likely to enjoy the flick to decide to watch, thus joining the dots behind the movies.