Best of Mahesh

(@మహేష్:
I don’t know how i missed your answer time stamped 3.30pm! But thats the best answer i have got so far. And i am, in a way , satisfied. This is the self-assertion i was looking for! )

It is in such expression, we will never have to degrade our past or present or the dream for the future!

” హాలీవుడ్ స్థాయికి “ఎదగడం” అనే ఆలోచనే పెద్ద ఫార్స్. నా సినిమాతో కొత్త సినీప్రపంచాన్ని సృష్టిస్తాననుకోవడమే నాకు కావాలి. నేను ఆశించేదీ అదే. “

This is it! It is CREATIVE field. And one is supposed to CREATE one’s own format! If that requires pulling things from our own past or from anywhere else in the world – it just does not matter! But it should turn out to be “original” at the end. People should find it as Creative.

“…………మన మానసికత, మన కథావిధానం వేరు. అదే సినిమాగా రావాలి.మన పురాణాలూ, మన సమాజాలూ వేరు. అందుకే మన కథలూ వేరుకావాలి. అలా “వేరుగా” ఉన్నప్పుడే మనదైన అస్తిత్వం వస్తుంది. “
-  I just love this!

But I want a change in society too!I want a change in the “మన మానసికత” too! We need not stick to the so called “మన” of the past (పురాణాలూ or whatever)!  This is the point where i say – certain ideas which flow in us ie., in certain layers of the society, suddenly stop flowing to certain other layers!  The divide comes in the “language” itself! The masses can be made to understand new forms/ new ideas!!!

Just imagine, if  Magadheera was made as original movie – and if we were to make it as a war of  Spartans, the credit would have been ours! Who the hell decides that Telugu masses would not enjoy the movie – if it was told as a story of the Spartans in their land!! Who the hell says that we should not have done a song sequence for them!!?

Or Say
Why can’t a Telugu movie be made on Iraq war!! The protagonist could be a Mallu in Iraq! or It could be an American who falls in love with our Mallu guy ! And damn it – I WILL HAVE A GITANJALI STYLE SONG IN IT!

This is why I loved Dasavatharam! I pardon Kamal for all his eccentricity in playing all the roles!
Guys! in my opinion, he is entitled for it! And he ‘alone’ can do it.

Or Say
If Kick was made as original – What is wrong if the story happens in Malasiya , Bankok whatever! Becuase our movie stars, politicians, swamijis, business class and working class are going to these places. Thus, it is getting acceptability already!

Inspired by the beauty of a location in a Venkatesh Movie, I know some body who strived hard and made it to certain place in Australia! Could you imagine that even a “presumed primordial craving”  can work wonders for different people? and we talk all sorts of nonsense about song sequences in foriegn locations! And we also lecture that the art form takes up its independent status the moment it takes its form! Wow! What a geat notion – but it can only be applied “discriminately” ah!

My worry is this: Today,  the masses are seeing the originals in Telugu Dubbing! And so the cutting edge that would remain for the Telugu producers would be just this “presumed primordial craving” delivered in the native language!! Thats the reason I detest this stunting of the intellectual levels of audience for a Telugu movie! It would call for the death of  originality in Telugu language.
(Ofcourse on the other end, the సంప్రదాయ bandwagon will keep trying to protect తెలుగు for its lofty ideals. There lies another divide.)
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 ………దానికి కావలసింది అమలులో ఉన్న కొలమానాలు కాదు. కొత్తవి కొంగ్రొత్తవి కావాలి.
- YES!! IT IS THE CRAVING FOR THE NEW!!! SOMETHING  WHICH FEELS BETTER!!!
(oh! but the rest of the guys are already feeling better! what do we do now!? we need to show some thing even better….more original…a  thing which looks better at any space and time )

అలా జరగాలంటే నిబద్ధత కావాలి. నేను ఆశించేది ఆ నిబద్ధతని.
nothing wrong!! I like it too. However, personally, i don’t think you can make everybody this way! I don’t think this is a qualification for turning out a master piece .Then – how is it done? It is driven by just a few! It is not a democratic ideology that we are talking abt! We are talking abt creative field. And thus, the onus is on the cretive director to find creative business model! I have lot of space for “compromising” and at the same time I also can get this “నిబద్ధత” honoured!

చలం,బుచ్చిబాబు,గోపీచంద్, తిలక్ ఎందరు లేరు మన కథల్ని మనకు చెప్పినోళ్ళు. ఆ కథలు ఏవీ…మనసినిమాల్లో ఆ మనుషులేరీ!
- ok! thats what you like! fine! i understand!
But i am not a literary guy – I can not comment on this immediately. I have some other interests. But that’s ok! We will come to that, some other time.

మన సినిమాల్లో “మనం” ఎక్కడ?
YES! great question!
But this is where the problem starts once again! Define “we” here! I am sure a greater chunk of this “we”  has liked this movie! “we” are ok with this! Perhaps this is the essential nature of “we” here! We change continously! with times! and places!  Perhaps, We don’t fight change to a great extent ! Perhaps, we actually welcome it better than the whole of the world! We ASSIMILATE it as ours – if it is liked!!

Then why fight for a “change” !? I think it was an old “thought” that our culture has taught

“Change” comes from craving for the New! For the sheer “awe” that a new thing stimulates in the mind! And for getting a better thing; because, the one on hand, just got rotten over time!

Or perhaps, its like the “child” trying to grab for a new thing! It too, fights when its deprived of the new thing!. But, then it keeps going for the ‘new’ every moment. That’s how it grows!

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