It is science, technology, and innovation that make lives prosper. Since ages, it is these developments that took mankind forward while ‘art’ is seen as torch-bearer of carrying culture forward. And then, is our cinema really one such art we should be proud of?
Apparently, some images doing rounds on social media are quite shocking that films and film heroes are becoming ‘cult figures’ than scientists, innovators, and other achievers. What is said to be a project-work done on Telugu hero Jr NTR by a school student, shows how white-page-notes are turned into scrapbooks that show adulation for the actor. This doesn’t look like an encouraging sign in any angle, even if it is not a project work but just a scrapbook.
Perhaps, project works should be done on how poor-lives could be made better, how poverty could be eradicated, things to be done to keep malnutrition at bay, improvise education system, make welfare fruits reach all the citizens, improvise socio-economic conditions and ideas to strengthen the economy. What will any student learn by writing pages about the character an actor plays on screen, the kinds of dances he does, his twirled mustaches and box collections?
Such mass worship of films and film heroes from only a ‘heroic’ point won’t yield anything for the families and countries. Cinema is a preservation of history if subjects deal with social and economic conditions, culture and history. But cinema will not be an art for punch dialogues, comedy and shaking waists.
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