Change is inevitable as the arrow of time progresses forward. But the question is whether these changes are progressive, leads towards a better, advanced society. Our cinema has been affected time and again and it has evolved through a lot of stages to become today what it is. Its way of depicting scenes, song sequences and bringing real-life emotions to screen, all have refined for better- from mediocre to admirably superior. And so is its depiction of fights, anger, and even intimacy. There was a time when kissing was banned from the screen and it was comically displayed through touching of flowers. And as it stands today, we've come to an age when the open display of vibrator is on way to become a norm. And explicit long kisses and sex scenes are slowly becoming a staple of every cinema. And, for the dialogues, if one is not talking by interleaving every other sentence with BC and MC, they're not being real. The tasteful cinema where the class is maintained and makes for a brainy intellectual spectacle are gradually disappearing from the scene.
Sure, bold scenes and needed in the cinema when the story calls for it. Saying a permanent no to it when it's actually necessary would make us just backwardly conservative. Take for eg, Anurag Kashyap directed a short film in which Radhika Apte lifted her dress to show her below front and within the context, it was to send a powerful message. Then there's this show American Gods, which if you haven't seen, has a lot of explicit scenes. But it's pretty much required there or otherwise, their whole storyline would crumble. Bold scenes are wholly accepted and even appreciated when they are in place and in due course shape and strengthen the story flow.
But then there exist films with in-your-face vulgar content which is downright distasteful. Movies like Delhi Belly, Hate Story, and Ragini MMS take it to another level with obscenity blown out of proportion. The explicit portrayal of orgasms, open use of sex toys and increasing nudity on screen, which is essentially soft porn, is slowly creeping into our movies. Unhealthy sex comedies like Grand Masti and Kyaa Kool Hai Hum 3 - well talk about going too far and becoming unfit for a large age group.
Change is inevitable as the arrow of time progresses forward. But the question is whether these changes are progressive, leads towards a better, advanced society. Our cinema has been affected time and again and it has evolved through a lot of stages to become today what it is. Its way of depicting scenes, song sequences and bringing real-life emotions to screen, all have refined for better- from mediocre to admirably superior. And so is its depiction of fights, anger, and even intimacy. There was a time when kissing was banned from the screen and it was comically displayed through touching of flowers. And as it stands today, we've come to an age when the open display of vibrator is on way to become a norm. And explicit long kisses and sex scenes are slowly becoming a staple of every cinema. And, for the dialogues, if one is not talking by interleaving every other sentence with BC and MC, they're not being real. The tasteful cinema where the class is maintained and makes for a brainy intellectual spectacle are gradually disappearing from the scene.
Sure, bold scenes and needed in the cinema when the story calls for it. Saying a permanent no to it when it's actually necessary would make us just backwardly conservative. Take for eg, Anurag Kashyap directed a short film in which Radhika Apte lifted her dress to show her below front and within the context, it was to send a powerful message. Then there's this show American Gods, which if you haven't seen, has a lot of explicit scenes. But it's pretty much required there or otherwise, their whole storyline would crumble. Bold scenes are wholly accepted and even appreciated when they are in place and in due course shape and strengthen the story flow.
But then there exist films with in-your-face vulgar content which is downright distasteful. Movies like Delhi Belly, Hate Story, and Ragini MMS take it to another level with obscenity blown out of proportion. The explicit portrayal of orgasms, open use of sex toys and increasing nudity on screen, which is essentially soft porn, is slowly creeping into our movies. Unhealthy sex comedies like Grand Masti and Kyaa Kool Hai Hum 3 - well talk about going too far and becoming unfit for a large age group.
