George Bernard Shaw, the noted dramatist and novelist coming from Swift and Yeats lineage may have created the paradigm shift in the literary world,by leaving the Shakespearean lane ( his legacy latter carried through in the Victorian era by Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Scott, Cornell and Thomos Hardy to name a few), of giving the audience and reader, some thought... provoking and sometimes enthralling moments by the simplicity and intricacies of their plots,by inducing the new concepts of Hero being the Villain and Villains being the actual Heroes of the his plays.
Then came the T.S.Elliot’s era of prose, poetry and melodrama, succeeding the Kipling and Orwell epoch, when themes were more satirical than comedic and calamitous,for,the Russelian literature made more furore and agony of the folks than ecstasy to the reader by its immaculate philosophical thinking, which later turned detrimental to the mathematician, physicist and philosopher’s reputation, as he was removed unceremoniously from the professorship of New York College and decimated his position as a prolific thinker(Sex and marriage, Free man’s worship, and An outline of intellectual rubbish making much of the brouhaha than his Principia Mathematica series and ABC of relativity ) , the Noble prize only restoring some of his lost glory.
The Indian literature moved on somewhat indistinguishable line as the English and there were days of Kalidas, Harishchandra, Premchand and Jaishankar Prasad to name a few.
The Indian cinema has evolved with a jerky pace, moving through the Kalidas era of dramticism to Yashpal’s era Of Jhutha- Sach. The Kaleidoscope and technological furtherance brought about the great change, in Indian theatrics, and we moved from silent movies to 3D films within a century.
Gone are the days(Of Satyajit Ray’s,Mani Ratnam’s and Ghai’s) when cinema was thought as a tool and plate-form to propagate and enunciate the righteous paths and thoughts of moving the society in a positive direction with delight and in the process the Bollywood enterprise have eclipsed Hollywood and China in terms of film output and revenue.
Now money reins the themes, plots and songs and the plethora of films coming out of the Bollywood warehouse are abundantly centred around satiating the libidinal impulses of the masses, with few exceptions of clean comedy, tragedy or didacticism,(from the house of Karan Johar etc) which we can relish watching with our family.
In a society where Bollywood still have a very large following and the actors and actresses are held in high esteem, its time now for Bollywood to change, a change which is the need of the hour, to rescue the Indian society from imitating the nasty scenes and plots(Talash being the latest), as most of the audience are either low wage earners or unemployed youths, as the educated and highly educated class now resort to new itinerary of technological advancements to satiate their Basic Instincts(Maslow’s law revisited).
Let’s hope that we will witness this change in our lifetime.
Then came the T.S.Elliot’s era of prose, poetry and melodrama, succeeding the Kipling and Orwell epoch, when themes were more satirical than comedic and calamitous,for,the Russelian literature made more furore and agony of the folks than ecstasy to the reader by its immaculate philosophical thinking, which later turned detrimental to the mathematician, physicist and philosopher’s reputation, as he was removed unceremoniously from the professorship of New York College and decimated his position as a prolific thinker(Sex and marriage, Free man’s worship, and An outline of intellectual rubbish making much of the brouhaha than his Principia Mathematica series and ABC of relativity ) , the Noble prize only restoring some of his lost glory.
The Indian literature moved on somewhat indistinguishable line as the English and there were days of Kalidas, Harishchandra, Premchand and Jaishankar Prasad to name a few.
The Indian cinema has evolved with a jerky pace, moving through the Kalidas era of dramticism to Yashpal’s era Of Jhutha- Sach. The Kaleidoscope and technological furtherance brought about the great change, in Indian theatrics, and we moved from silent movies to 3D films within a century.
Gone are the days(Of Satyajit Ray’s,Mani Ratnam’s and Ghai’s) when cinema was thought as a tool and plate-form to propagate and enunciate the righteous paths and thoughts of moving the society in a positive direction with delight and in the process the Bollywood enterprise have eclipsed Hollywood and China in terms of film output and revenue.
Now money reins the themes, plots and songs and the plethora of films coming out of the Bollywood warehouse are abundantly centred around satiating the libidinal impulses of the masses, with few exceptions of clean comedy, tragedy or didacticism,(from the house of Karan Johar etc) which we can relish watching with our family.
In a society where Bollywood still have a very large following and the actors and actresses are held in high esteem, its time now for Bollywood to change, a change which is the need of the hour, to rescue the Indian society from imitating the nasty scenes and plots(Talash being the latest), as most of the audience are either low wage earners or unemployed youths, as the educated and highly educated class now resort to new itinerary of technological advancements to satiate their Basic Instincts(Maslow’s law revisited).
Let’s hope that we will witness this change in our lifetime.
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