Yet another open letter…

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This letter is addressed to film makers who in a moment of madness make movies like “Yaaradi Nee Mogini(YNM)”, “Race”, “Tashan” and the likes.

Dear Sir,

I am an average twenty something , who grew up on the staple diet of watching masala movies right through 90’s, slightly matured later on to appreciate really good movies made by Mani Rathnam and the likes, worships the one and only thalaivar (Rajini, of course), uttufies peter in blog about movies, meejic and Rehman and every weekend religiously watches movies made by you people in theater/dvd/tv. Sometimes with pleasure and sometimes with pain. In short, a movie buff.

We, the audience, you say, should try to understand the efforts you people put into making a movie , and watch movies only in theaters and not on “thiruttu” vcds/dvds. We oblige, despite the unearthly tickets prices in multiplexes. And all we expect in return is some entertainment in the name of decent cinema. I am unable to fathom the reason why, but off late the movies you’ve been churning out lately are more of pain.

Just how stupid do you think we, the audience, are when you make such type of movies? Do you think the moment we enter the cinema hall we’ll become brainless zombies and will lap up anything and everything you throw at us ?? Is it wrong to expect a bit of logic in the movies you make? Even a 10 year old will point fingers at the glaring mistakes you make. And to top it all, if a film reviewer criticizes and thrashes your movie you hold a grudge against him/her. Isn’t there something called work ethics? Do you even watch the despicable movies that you make? If you slip once or twice you may be forgiven. But if an entire bunch of directors decide to go on a making-idiotic movies- rampage, how can you blame the audience for not coming to the theaters to watch the crap of a movie that you’ve made?

And also when was the last time the heroine in you movie was a decent lady? Either she has to be the singing and dancing doll dressed in the skimpiest of clothes who comes and goes whenever its time to gyrate to ear drum-tearing tunes with lyrics full of double entendres and vulgar innuendos or she’s this extremely nasty woman who’s full of vice and is plotting all the time to bring about the downfall of the hero and is brought to senses by the hero in the climax or she’s the snob who turns down the advances of the hero for some trivial reason and in the end comes and falls in his feet or last but most liked by the mega serial makers — she’s the perfect woman who can see/hear/do no evil types.

Gimme a break. Why does everything has to be larger than life? Will it be ok for you if your wife/sister is of any one of the above types? And the best part is, if any lady dresses up the way she does in the movies for some function involving the so called “dignitaries” she’s dragged all over the place by “katchies” and made to issue an apology. Hypocrites !!!!

You may have made some good movies in the past. But if you cannot make decent movies anymore, please quit. Don’t lift stories from all over the world in the name of remakes and torture us more. We’d be happier to watch the original movies with subtitles rather than sit through the rubbish that you make. If making movies is all that you’ve ever lived for, make sure you do some justice to it. Even if you make one movie in 4 years see to it that it has an impact. This is just a piece of suggestion if I may say so.

Thank You for reading this far.

PS: This post resulted out of sheer exasperation. I watched “The Prestige” and “YNM” last week. 2 movies as different as chalk and cheese. At the end of “YNM” my brother and I were so riled that we stood up and applauded the director who had the guts to make such a movie and the lead actors who’d left their brains at home during the course of the shooting . I’m sure there are a lot of movies to be included in this list. Thankfully I didn’t watch movies like 1 2 3, Bheema etc .

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