Sunday, April 20, 2008

Legacy of gibberish

Dont we all love repeating or listening to our favorite movie dialogues and songs? I do. Though less of quoting but more of thinking about them and sometimes finding those particular dialogues or songs very apt in the social going-ons. But here, we are definitely not talking about movies of last few years.All quotable and relatable dialogues and hummable and identifiable songs and their lyrics are of the by-gone era...around late 70's or so when it all stopped, almost. These days the Indian movies have not just emerged as the biggest copy-cats of all times, irony is that indian directors are lousy copy cats. I kind of like cats....so lets think of a more shameless animal, well...let me see...i guess, humans are most shameless, so decided, no simile required. The songs these days are peppy but they do NOT conform to the parameters of a genuine product. They are gibberish, one-two-three-duniya mein aana hai free, sau-sau mausam jhele hai, ek paudha banne ko tree( hilarious, stalwart lyricists of formertimes would have been flabbergasted at such sub-standard creation), baby-baby-baby, yo-yo-yo, bin tere sanam dum-da-dum-da-dum (what does it convey? its clowny ). Tunes are aped from western, middle-east or east asian tracks, all songs are picturized in a disco or pub looking kind of a place as if all boys and girls have started living in there, heroes and especially heroines are depicted to be perpetually in a horny mood (thats unbelievable and even unhealthy), lots of skin show, its almost like attending a class on anatomy, dialogues of all movies (barring few) have no impact what so ever. Are we unlearning the art of writing beautifully and the craft of presentation? Because once we had it, now we dont. Society's superficial functioning reflects in parched celluloid. Nothing touches the soul no more and soul thrives on stirs which validates its existence in a humdrum survival pattern that we all have. Most movies of yesteryears have authentic depiction, powerful dialogues and soulful music (not just pub-centric), but children of today may not have a lot of inspiring choices of creative expression in the contemporary entertainment. What we are leaving them with is a legacy of gibberish, no originality and something quite fleeting.