Throwing a boomerang😇

It’s a time you put yourself in the center, left and right. This isn’t bad stuff social media brought to the world, being you the writer, the publisher, and a critic! I grew up in a milieu only intellectuals reigned their domains. I wasn’t liking the idea much. I started enjoying putting my views on any topic with social media spaces. To get it right, I observe others’ casual and valid responses. Weather is still bright, no apologies yet.

South Indian Movie director Anjali Menon’s recent remark – It’s better for reviewers to study how films are made before passing judgments-was a U-turn for all immerse themselves in writing reviews from the theatre itself. The pleasing director who wasn’t into controversies before is facing a backlash from her own fraternity and social media platforms. Hilarious trolls swelled the issue.

Being the most democratic, entertainment platform, cinema cannot escape audience reviews. What’s interesting to me is a good film for me and it turns bitter when I say it’s worse otherwise. Film Industry survives out of production companies. It’s not stars, scriptwriters, and directors who suffer here, but the producers who pledge everything to put in a film. It’s a money game not always run on common rules. That’s why we need plush locales, actors with six-packs, and ravishing actresses to lift a commercial flick. Art movies consume less budget, so targeting an exclusive audience in film fests isn’t affecting them much. A film that blends a magical visual language out of a creative script and celebrated talents or ‘super’ presences on screen demands ‘real’ money.

Anjali is partially right, if you don’t get it, that’s never a bad film. It can’t be good since your superstar is in or you enjoyed its mere flow. Grab it as a whole and filter good and bad. Reason out utter flops – that’s constructive for a costly industry supports many. I wish the ‘critics’ better their knowledge about the industry worldwide and watch more films before penning or bad-mouthing from the very first day of screening. The ‘little’ is not always enough.