Some Q
Why make movies?
Yeah. Why? What purpose does it serve?
Entertainment? Escape? Enlightenment?, all of the above? (maybe that’s the answer) Or maybe its a turn on watching people (read actors) live out our fears and fantasies.
Why do we need it?
Because ‘Life’ is one big cinema. Its playing every hour, by the second, by the breath. And its hard for us to be our own audience, when we our playing the main leads.Also we don’t know how its all going to end. Or we all do know how its going to end.How predictable is that?
So cinema, the best of cinema, is life in a nut shell. Or should we call it in a theatre shell?
So who deserves to make movies?
RGV famously said, anyone can make a movie. Its hard for a pro-filmmaker to take that. But he is sort of right, but in an existential way, yes, anyone can make a movie. Whether it works or not is another story.You guys with me so far? I know my Smirnoff is.
Why do some movies work and some don’t?
I don’t know.But I do know a good story stays with you, when its told well.But then why do some movies work for some people and not for others? I don’t know. Maybe its cus the movie caught them on a good day for some….and a bad day for some others. Or maybe because a piece of work didn’t relate to the viewer and vice versa. Or maybe I am just repeating myself.
What does a really good movie do to you?
It makes you feel like you were part of the story. It makes you feel good that you could completely relate to it, understand it, dissect and re-assemble it like it were your own.
Something akin to an old lover.She knew how to make you, ahem….Yeah, that’s what a really good movie is like. Agree with me or not, but a really good movie knows your G-spot. And you will be her slave till kingdom come.
What does a movie mean to different people?
A cinephiles alternative to sex. A movie buffs alternative to his girl/boy friend.
An actors alternative to his self esteem. A directors alternative to the muse he cant have.
A producers alternative to find an alternative.
A critics alternative to his life.
Movies, simple to break down.
Theatre,Magic,Music,Painting,Architecture,Accounts. The last one makes it complicated.
So why do we watch movies?
Did I already answer that? Well anyways. We watch them because….why do bugs hover over light?….why does rain,compel us to watch it?…why does a beautiful day make us smile?…why does a cool breeze, inspire us?….why does a promise, effect us?
We watch movies,because it makes a promise….a promise that it will take us…on a trip…we’ll never get to have in our lifetime…
its another story however if promises turn out to be false. then like a lover betrayed, we will rave and rant at the sacrifices we made and the promises she broke.
Why movies will stay?
Cus its an alternative to our lives.
Why bad stories will be told?
I don’t know
Why great stories will be told?
Cus there are still some out there….trying to be the audience in the lives they live.
I dont know. But it seemed like we needed some reminding.
Here’s to Mr.Stanley Kubrick,Mr.Satyajit Ray,Mr.Akira Kurosawa,Mr.Alfred Hitchcock,Mr.David Lean,Mr.Bimal Roy…..I cant stop clinking my glasses….here’s to every filmmaker who kept his promise.
Cheers,Amen and Goodnight.
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because it’s home to articles like this one that make me smile
Cheers Anish, to a great peice of ambiguous philosophy (my favorite kind), and Cheers again for answering the questions and questioning the answers we all have about our films… about our lives…
simply sober Smirnoff.:)
Agree with me or not, but a really good movie knows your G-spot. And you will be her slave till kingdom come…..love u Anish. All the best
ya. U do have to keep ur promisses!!!
The article reminded me of Richard Bach’s Adventures of a reluctant messiah where the messiah asks the writer why do we watch movies!
Anish
I am desperate to watch “confessions of filmmaker”..but I live in L.A. Is there a chance of movie getting released here or will it be out on dvd ???
I read about the movie everywhere I could and it sounds exactly like the way I feel about telugu cinema and celebs..
The one movie that I really liked on the same lines was “bollywood calling” from nagesh..I still remember nagarjuna’s comment about that movie..He said that he lost his respect for the filmmaker after this movie.. he felt it was like spitting in the plate that you eat…No wonder.. no body likes to give a thought about what they are really worth as long as they have millions of caste fanatics and dumb fans to support them…
Anyway.. I always wanted to see a filmmaker or atleast a writer who has balls to express what he really feels about Indian cinema.. telugu cinema in particular..
Your movie sounds like the one I have been waiting for..
“I still remember nagarjuna
guess Nagarjuna is a jerk. Bollywood calling was a wonderful movie. Havent missed any of NAgesh’s movies ever since. Om puri was terriffic. Im in splits every time i recall the scene where he asks uni ppl to shake some leaves and such for a song sequence. Shake da, shake da he goes.
you cud hear his punjabi accent and trying oh -so hard to ge the south indian accent too.
very genuine perfomance.
loved that movie. Nagarjuna can go to Timbuktu!!!
for all i care.
Bollywood Calling was a very nice movie. I loved it, although most filmmakers probably hated Nagesh for making it. I wonder which film industry was he spoofing TELGU, HINDI or TAMIL or just every Indian Film industry in general.
Dude i just watched Happy days. WTF happened there? Its the only movie ever that I walked out of during the interval. This is so not what I expected from you after confessions of a filmmaker. You have a lot of explaining to do.