Has Cinema Lost It’s Charm ?
Actually, the problem is that today in the field of filmmaking, book-publishing, creativity has taken a back seat, and money is seen sitting at the wheel, driving . The real star and base of any film or book is its story yet the writer or author is the most neglected segment of the process. He is one of the least paid.
Leaving aside monetary considerations the major problem occurs when literature has to be made so bland that it does not surprise or offend anyone. By sanitizing literature/scripts to suit the sensibilities of the Indian censor, board you lose its power, its ability to make an impact is totally lost.
When you lose genuine creativity, you are like the fly by night operator who just wants to make a quick buck and move on to the next innocent victim. Today’s theater going audience and book readers are a bunch of half wits watching cheap
