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when is the new wave coming?
So when is the new wave coming? Or did the new wave actually come and go? Did we all miss the bus? I’m talking about what people have been harping about for a few years now. But I think they miss the point….
See just because certain production companies have turned corporate, it doesn’t mean the films they produce or the directors that are making films with them are saying anything new…its only re-packaged and better designed….for the so called multiplex audience (isn’t everyone a multiplex audience anyway)…
this is no new wave…gimme a break…
A new wave is like a renaissance, a movement in which the arts, be it music,theatre and cinema, signifies a growing change in ideas and attitude…a growing resilience to taboos and myths….a conviction in telling stories regardless of aftermath….a desire for truth as an individual see’s it….a platform for expression of personal freedom,ambitions,desires,secrets, etc etc, almost anything we hold in our heads as a private thought, is expressed in a film….
that’s a new wave….thats a wave that we don’t see coming anywhere….
I have still to see Anurag Kashyaps “Paanch”, I think that might be closest to what I am talking about.I wish Sudhir Mishra didn’t take so long to make his next films. Whatever happened to Aditya Bhattacharya (Raakh)? when is Dev Benegal making his next?
I am not talking about any of Rituparno Ghoshs films, they are not a new wave…it’s a different wave altogether. A Bengali Ray-MerchantIvory wave…
A new wave is eccentric. A new wave is queer…ok let me re-phrase this….when is the new twisted wave coming along….
I think we need that more than ever in our lives. A certain voyeuristic, daring piece of filmmakers and filmmaking….that makes you feel alive…that gets you ticking at the neck thinking, “what the fuck does he think he is?” or “why the fuck didn’t I think of this before?”….
I feel with all my heart there is this one film that will come along one day, and change a lot of things permanently for all of us….I dont ever, not even for a moment, under estimate the the true potential of a piece of art…It can change lives…maybe countries…and I feel thats the kind of films that must be encouraged and those are the kinds of filmmakers we must nurture.
I think we are far away, in-terms of a society, or as a people, who can accept freedom of thought, freedom of speech,freedom of expression….just plain and simple freedom. I think everyone takes the tag of ‘being responsible’ too seriously in their lives. I like films and film-makers who are reckless, a certain disorder in their work brings originality which everyone can be proud of….
I wish I had references to give to what I am talking about, but I struggling to recollect any…
Ok, let me digress, I wanted to shoot a small sex scene in my film (as I write that’s the only piece of left over work before the final mix next week). So yes, I was saying, I wanted to shoot a small sex scene in my film…nothing out of the ordinary…just needed a young woman lying naked on the bed waiting for my hero to get on top of her…that’s it, I cut from there….ok so how do I pull this off? whom do I call?….when I ask people about the possibilities, they look at me as if I were weird….ok so I am…but I really would love to have this scene in this movie….it says a lot for the moment and for the character…I looked at yellow pages, called ‘casting’ agents…..nothing.
I have eyes following me everytime I step into my studio nowadays…there’s a buzz going that I actually have made ‘confessions of a prostitute’…anyways…my point is…everything is taboo…even ‘taboo is taboo’.
when is the new twisted wave cumming?…(pun intended)
As a kid growing up, while I was made to watch all the classics like Benhur and Lawrence of Arabia, (and I love them)…but it was films like, Return of the Killer Tomatoes, which really got my imagination going…..while ‘rotkt’ is a bad horror movie, I never looked at tomatoes the same way again….
I WISH FILM-MAKERS WOULD DO THAT TOO….MAKE A TOMATO OF THE WORLD WE LIVE IN.
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hey anish!!! good one…heres to a truckload of tomatoes in the time to come..:):)>-
Anish - maybe you can be the start of the new wave :)
The reality is that no new wave was ever welcomed with open arms. They fought their ways there. Sometimes there was no audience, so it was all indie. It depends what you do - are you find with making films that don’t get “regular” distribution? If yes, you can still make exactly what you want and try for other ways to release it (online, dvd etc.)
Just finished reading Rebels on the Backlot… recommended reading… the elements in the new wave never know they are a atoms and molecules of the wave. It’s years after the wave has reached it’s pinnacle or risen and fallen down making way for another new wave that it hits you… “dude we changed things”… another relishing post of yours that I thoroghly enjoyed Anish.
Anish,
Totally agree with you. An extremely valid point is made. PFC is one of those elements of revolution. The revolution has been started. Last year quite a few films which were liked by masses, were different from regular masala films. Earlier we had one or two films separated by huge time diff, which did not make that impact. Now the film makers are coming out with new ideas more frequently. It has already started, inshallah in next few years we would be in majority. We all have some responsibilty and contributing to the best of our ability.
The other question is should not we have a united front of film makers, who can collaborate. Like I read in KKK’s article about Brazilian film revolution. When can we have our own ‘city if god’ type flick, inspite of having abundance of social issues and pandora’s box of stories? What should we do to work as a single unit?
I was speaking to a friend this morning about the mainstreaming of American independent films, and about the fact that the first independent films were being made here in the late 60’s and early 70’s, but it wasn’t until the 90’s that there was a true independent movement in this country, when the independent films became respected and prominent.
Not to mention coopted by the studios and sought out by the almost mainstream film watcher.
All “new waves”, in music, literature, and the arts were started by a few rebels who then influenced a few more, and then…
And, they were all organic and unforced.
Your frustration is noted.
But, it is you who needs to be the influencer, and then realize that it may take a generation for anyone to notice ;)
Create your own references.
If you make films as well as you write, in 20 years you will be quoted in every other comment on PFC as well!!!
Return of the Killer Tomatoes is a classic favourite of my childhood.
Whatever happened to the days when TV would play these campy films every weekend?
Man ur article has given fresh life to my dead creativity.
I have this fantasy to write a completely honest & fucked up College Movie. I write stuff …& i’m so excited after that i’m having orgasms….then time passes & i think who fuck will get it?
I give it to some people & their comments are straight out of a screenplay class (like Syd Field crap)
Its too slow. Why is it important in the story?
The dialogue has nothing to do with the story….and on & on & on…
FUCK YOU!
Story is just an excuse to show life sometimes.
Maybe i will make the worst film ever made but atleast I would be able to look in the mirror with pride.
then i throw it & get back to life.
But I swear man i wake up every fuckin day to make a movie like that. I think i will do it in few years with my own money. Just last month i sold my soul. I’m taking a break from my struggle to become a Business Analyst(that gives me H1 too as my OPT is almost over.)
I will use my own fuckin money & do the shipwreck.
Thanks Anish for writing this article.
congratulations to OZ on quitting the corporate world. I’m gonna replace you soon there.
mainak, amen to what you said about making films with pride.. sometimes we need to sell out to make ourselves realize how much we love what we can’t always do.. but as long as it’s a temporary sellout with the passion in the bigger picture intact, it’s all good… good luck to you :)>-
Anis
I bumped into this site http://jaman.com/ which is a site for independent film makers around the world.
maybe you can post your cinema there
Anish,
We had those tomatoes back here in India too, courtesy Ramu ‘Darna Mana Hai’ Verma…remember Shilpa Shetty and the Tomato Township? Jokes apart, as I expressed here previously, the films being pointed out as constituting this ‘New Wave’ are predominantly those playing to the multiplex gallery. How truly pointed out by you that these films are ‘packaged’ for the purpose. An art revolution, in any form, cannot be restricted to a certain class of audience…that’s as true of the New Wave of today as for Neo-realist Cinema of yore, immensely popular at one point of time.