Art of Making Movies - Directors need to Learn

Art of Making Movies is now a history its simply a couple of scenes put together and then out comes your movie highly focussed. FIRST on the Audio function  more important :- 

• Who the anchor who should be,

• Which dance teams, 

• Who will be on the stage, 

• Who all needs to be invited, 

• Who all need to be facilitated  

• Who will seat where  

• Who will seat next to whom , 

• Who are the ones who would like to play the role of Flatterer or Bhattaraju (telugu) and keep the people in trance from reality

and this list of highly buttering exercise never ends.  

Then comes your movie release there is a great rush for all the HERO, HEROIN, DIRECTOR now to rush to the idiot box and create a stir talk about the movie sorry I did not mean the story its about 

• what we did, 
• how we enjoyed and how this so called HERO who is generally a gods boon to the earth did and his simplicity, 
• his carefree (not Sanitary Napkins) attitude yet nothing about the story  and 
• a wonderful plastic anchors who have neither qualification nor experience sit and start asking with a sense of  getting high,
• as they are now seen as somebody who has sat with somebody on the same screen and has joked, had coffee, taken selfie to be posted next day as a trophy of an achievement 
• god knows what it means to them I am sure lots of people with brain it may not even cross them.

Current status of these kind is a long list of movies which make no sense why is the movie funders and makers so obsessed with themselves, 

• They Can't or Don't make meaningful movies, 

• They Can't or Don't make social conscious movies , 

• They Can't or Don't make movies with a message, 

• They Can't or Don't understand the burning issues, 

• I Can't or Don't digest these things any more now 

• I have not gone to the theater for years now last time I went was for a family time about 3 years now

Director is a brand I agree when we had real directors not those who now say its me, it was me, and it will be me only.  I will tell you what is a brand  - an ability to create a movie that stir your emotions, when you come out of the movie you are made to think about the virtues of life, responsibilities of life, or what level of conscious should rise in me. 

Question is DIRECTOR Have you got it in you, if so please work on that.  Creating a trend is good but with a purpose, a meaning,  as a responsibility  to show cause the issues encourage people to think.  - PK, Mardaani, OMG- Oh My GOd, Peepli Live, 3 idiots, Tare Zameen par, Rang De basanti, Chak de India, My Brother Nikhil , Dor , you may wonder why no telugu movie please check you may find a none in the last few years and no mention or category has been given importance by any one

Music is a electronic noise for me to register in the ears either the song or the tune. I am sorry that I cant even remember, any connect to any movie,  music to any movie, there is no signature tune, nor a longevity to the songs, now I suddenly doubt is there anything called language telugu.  Now most of the songs have to have some English, Hindi, Tamil, or foreign language in it. Purity of language expression and the beautiful words is lost recently I was a part of a conversation and suddenly a word in telugu was used listener put up a blank face he said "aghorinchavule"  I was laughing and suddenly remembered so many of them have been lost like.  

Now this is the responsibility of the Lyricist and the musician to ensure language purity is retained.  I am sure do not comeback and say people dont like it. In every reality show on music none of these songs of mixed are sung even if ever performed not much appreciated.

Humor is like nowadays marriage reception buffets you dont know  what and why they are serving them for a few who relish or many who go back hungry. First Humor has to be an integral part of the movie, structure and story. He is neither an independent story in the story. If you look its so funny now the Hero, or the Heroin or the so called character actor wants to be a humorist. 

Funny how can I see a character with shades that do not fit in the script a rare phenomenon is ok. But this is far from reality even by the Human psychology or in the theories of personality its a rare disorder of a person shifting personality so fast, which means all the stories are about rare disorders, not any more near Reality so audience need not be connected to the movie it booms in the box office finally producer, investor, funder takes the brunt.

Protagonist is missing with a meaning  he has become self obsessed many of you may wonder what is this protagonist  ( definition - an advocate or champion of a particular cause or idea.) In every movie the main role has to play with a purpose movie can have a mighty influence on the people the change can be impacted. The society can improve with what the protagonist has to say more near to reality. The definition of dream cannot be so far that the audience who wants to be impacted stays far from this and feels  - that character was very good but nothing to do with me. 

I would like to bring here some of the names who made a remarkable movies :- Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Shyam Benegal, Satyajit Ray, Girish Kasaravalli, Girish Karnad, Bapu,  K Viswanath, Mani Ratnam, K Balachander and do we have any names to suggest for the present.

Finally I hope we have some nice movies, with a meaning and art of movie making will be preserved, care taken in diction, lyrics, purity in language, meaningful protagonist, Music with meaning , reality in sequence of movie making. Let there be no fantasy beyond leading to boredom and fade away of the movie goer which will lead to losses and no less than erosion of wealth for a serious and good film maker. 

Shivaram S Vinjamuri

Can you give credit - Thats my contribution

The advancement of communication has lead to some good and some irks.  Wondering to my reference: its very simple today almost all the techno buffs and so called socially connected and want to be connected, wannabe connected all have access to a lot of information.  One such is the smartphone idiocy my favourite sentence when I speak to people at times is that " these smart phones have made us a bit of idiots".

Yeah travelling back to what I want to say is that now lets see what we have as a mode to reach to the oodles we have Television, Newspaper, Professionally Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp, Telegram Etc. Every person who is in communication to the masses is using one of these handles. Don't jump the gun I have nothing against any of these companies or the softwares or the mode. I have  a whole lot of disconnect with the people taking credit for which they are not:-

1. Their intelligent level is not so high yet they share  some information without giving credit
2. They share a statement as if it is their own original thought common I know their levels of intelligence
3. They share a pic or a quote which is not their own but no credit I am sure others who read it know too well whose it is

The list of irks can go on and on.  I am not against sharing I am only protesting that when you want to share, please share with the credits to the person who has quoted or written that.  By all means with due respects to your intelligence you may not be qualified to say or write yet you are qualified to share the quote, share and talk about it only after you have given credit to the origins from where it has been evolved , it can be either a thought, quote, Pic, article , what ever it is.

I am sure all of us know the level of the person sharing such information his way of thinking his thought process, his life style and his past posts in the FB  or his views on aspects and suddenly if shares a thought which is not his first we stop reading and then the very purpose of sharing the quote looses its value.  I am writing this when a recent incident which really annoyed me. Last week I saw a post which was shared by Singing Legend S P Balasubrahmanyam regarding the bottled water and how people are wasting this I am giving you the link here https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1069357006455472&id=706849099372933.

I saw a lot of people sending this to most of the whatsapp shares.  The irony is that not a single soul did mention the name of the person who wanted this change to happen. Unfortunately the copyright applies here or not is a question to ponder.  Since its a public information which everybody has an access.

Let me also look at it differently most of the time when we talk about sharing I stress that its our basic culture to be adopted to share with credits. The person who has been the ideator has taken pains or felt rational or even emotional to write this.  Due credits should go to him if you want to add any additional information over this please do and share this as your comments or additions to the author.

I  can foresee the future when such small things which are not taken care. The future definitely looks no less rude of making the habit not giving credits but may also end up stealing the others thoughts and owning them.  Then you have some people who occupy some coveted space fraudulently.  I am sure all those with a sense of common sense understand what I say rest I leave it to your INTELLIGENCE

Shivaram S Vinjamuri