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"If you think you have an original idea, stop reading or risk discovering otherwise." --I read this line somewhere. And it holds so true for the our ever entertaining film industry. Even as Yash Chopra bemoans the lack of original scriptwriters and battles with critics over his over the Top and trying too hard to be a "cool" film with push up bras and gelled hair, one wonders where have all the scriptwriters and screenplay writers disappered to. Are they really not there? Or is the film Industry shying away from them? Are they too bogged down by those oft-repeated formulas that supposedly work at the Box office? Where has the original story idea disappered?
Bollywood will soon see remakes of entertainers like 'Ramgopal Varma Ke Sholay', 'Don', 'Umrao Jaan', 'Victoria No 203', 'Sahib Biwi aur Ghulam' to name a few. Does this mean the end of actual creativity in so colourful a fraternity as our filmdom is always thought of being? So maybe all stories have been thought before and everything that needs to be shown already depicted on celluloid, so all that's left is rehashing what's been done before and making contemporary versions of earlier films. There are some films made in this day and age that have a little if not too much of an original screenplay to boast about. But then again maybe what is happening is that the audience are unwilling to accept new kinds of cinema and hanker for the tried and tested kind of work.
I recall lyricist and writer Javed Akhtar saying that the audience deserves the kind of entertainment they get, because if the audience loves 'hollywood-inspired' films and makes them superhits then they deserve such films. He held the opinion that we as an audience are to be blamed for all the bad films because we watch them, we endorse them and then those very films are seen as formulas that work at the box-office. So do we deserve all the mind numbing entertainment among the seldom pearls of cinematic excellence we get to see these days?
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