Friday, February 18, 2011

Todays trend in cinema

The Tamil film industry should have completed a century since its inception, its growth has been phenomenal, it  has given us a variety of movies brought in an array of artists introduced us to soothing tunes,ranging from carnatic,melody,pathos,gana,rock and occasionally some tanglish songs too,but I have been musing more on the title of the films that are doing rounds in the theatres iguess either our directors/producers should have entered into a  mental block that their imagination or creativity has got saturated .I have no grievance on the type of movies that are being produced, but on the type of title that are being chosen for their films. just recollect the type of movies we had seen in the yesteryear's,we had predominantly a large number of films wound around  sensitive family,relation ships which tried to focus more on human relations,the love between mother and child,father and daughter,brother and sister,husband and wife etc or a theme based on historical stories or some mythological reproduction. and basically these movies tried to reinforce the value of human relations, taught us to maintain our cool, gave us the spirit of shouldering responsibilities the joy of giving and sharing and also the spirit of fighting without giving up.we did have movies wher men showed their prowess and valor when needed and ladies were depicted to be gentle,delicate kind and also violent when required as in the case of kannagi  and to show how a man is distinct in controlling his emotion and differs from an animal,recall the titles used during olden days,thamarai nenjam,avan thanmanithan ,en annan ,manithan,uyiranthamanidhan,makkalai petra maharasi,mangayar tilagam, just a few to name, a closer look shows that effort has been taken by the creator to distinguish how superior man and mankind is,this was also supported by kannadasans/vallis song,ettanai periya manithanuku……where  the mention is about the greatness of man and in yet another song it went like dhayiriyamaga soll nee manithan thana ,where a strong punch is given to the animal instinct in man,..well let us come down to certain movies that have become blockbusters today, just for the sake of titles, singam,chiruthai,singam puli,veengai,nadunisi naygal,seeval,kuruvi,Ee MYNA, aadu-puli SO BASICALLY these movies are targeting more on the strength of the animal and its characteristic than on the strong points of man, if this trend continues,no doubt we would be exhausting the Chinese zodiac very soon some film would be named as pig,yet another as rabbit,the other as rat,monkey,horse cow,dog, cat,dragon, once the series on animals is over we may have movies as kosu,kaka,killi,we might have some mighty scpirt writer to write dialogues,justifying the greatness of each of these animals and insect and Alas day might come when the goodness of man and his characteristic would be forgotten,and the animals would have more respect and regard

3 comments:

  1. Superb! Anni!
    Humorous but strong message that you have posted all creators and film makers must see this .i wrote in a piece of paper in my first year engineering class in 1990 that "i want to become a man!" when we were asked to write about our achievement and aim. Hope you will appreciate .
    good work anni!you always rock!

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  2. meenaka wow you have got a wonderful sense of humour,language, yet thought provoking and what even in cinema u can think of so much social message. now that every thing in this world has become materialistic it is very hard to find people who think of values and ethics even today.good meenakkaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa keeep going
    pummy

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  3. Atleast the Tamil movies stop with giving "Animal" titles, the Hollywood movies go one step ahead and don even their actors with some weirdo animal costumes, which would sure give you a nightmare.

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