Anatomy of Indian cinema-I

Plagiarism can be of two types. One is copying a piece of writing from somewhere else and presenting it in his own work. The other form of plagiarism is copying someone’s ideas as if there were own which exactly is an act of plagiarizing. This is not a blog about a novel of Indian-American in Harvard University where the author’s fairy tale turned into a thriller with ups and downs. This blog is all about the second form of plagiarism in which ideas of someone are plagiarized. This is about Indian cinema which instead of taking a stand in the stage of world cinema is taking everyone’s ideas. This is all about how far a cinema can demolish the style and all the techniques which were possessed by the original.

The idea of making movies from the world cinema in Indian film industry is applaud-able when the beauty of the original remains the same. After all it’s a step to make every movie-goer in our country get the vision what others are getting in western countries. But in the process of converting them into Indian versions, its loses its original style, the technique and everything. The conversion process is not an easy task as it includes the commercial value.

What happened to the creators in our own country which had produced some legends like Ray, Mrinal sen. Yes, there are few who are seriously concerned about parallel cinema in India. They are very few, at least to my knowledge like Adoor, Padmarajan(though I haven’t seen their movies),Aparna Sen and also Blessy(making a great impact in his movies). But the question is, how many of us know that there are some serious cinemas made in the streets of the God’s own country or in some corner of this country. Do we get easy access to their works like the other commercial works?

Someone may boast that there are many good directors like Maniratnam, Selvaraghavan, Cheran, Sanjay Leela Bhansali. But I feel like they are missing out something in their films. Even they do have ideas plagiarized from other foreign cinemas in their movies.

Do you call these ideas as the inspired ones?? Then where are the credits to the originals? What is stopping them from revealing us the architects of the original?

Update: Check my other blog for more on plagiarism and Indian cinema.

(To be contd..)