Vishwaroopam mania

It is not every time you sit in front of a computer that you get a bag of ideas or some enlightenment to write something that would matter. It may spark at any time to the human mind to express deep sentiments or record comments that would trigger attention. Nowadays writers and artists have been pushed into a situation where their creation and years of hard work gets rejected for reflecting the truth. Well, I don’t really know whom  I should point at, for this pathetic situation of many artists who have gone through a lot of mental agony, torments, controversies, financial crisis adding to it the courts and cases. We learn from available statistics that the literacy rate and people’s reflections and response is gradually rising towards its pinnacle, and that makes sure that people in art should also be given the credit for producing worthy stuff through cinema.

The Government? The Muslim protesters? or co-actors? Who is making a big issue out of a trivial case that is for sure not worth of three to five court hearings and so much protests. “KAMALHASSAN”, a well sought and admired actor has been in the limelight for the controversy on his latest film "VISHWAROOPAM". Literally, the man who took Tamil cinema to Oscars, a man who made people watch cinema for quality rather than entertainment, a man who could drag audience to his side by a mere look, a man who stood strong amidst lot of controversies, a man who invested all his money for creation and innovation and a man who should have been at least respected for his benchmarks in cinema. He is also the man who has been in the papers, television and number of social networking sites, just for the reason that he has abused Muslim friends(nothing as they say).To mention, a number of films missed this controversy. Is it that those films were not worthy enough to make controversies or is it because they couldn’t stand strong like KamalHassan? He wrote after all,”thadaigalai vendrae sarithiram padaithavan yaruendru purigiradha” and that should have interested the protesters because there is a tendency to nag people who are prone to such disputes. Dependency, is a word that rarely comes across him, he fought it all alone. ”THEY” triggered the problem, cleared the film, again disapproved it for a reason unknown, saying he has to discard unwanted portions which would mount to about  an hour. Breaking the furniture, tearing the screens, throwing petrol bombs etc captured the attention of many. And finally said why should we put all the time into a film, when we have thousands of cases(that could never finish in a lifetime) like Mullaiperiyar problems not sorted out. And still I couldn’t find out who is that “THEY”. Is it really the protestors, because in thousands of cases the government has managed to extinguish the protesters, like in Delhi rape case, even though it was for a social cause, Or is the government backing the protestors? Whatever it is, all the news that has shook the country in the past few days managed to get buried in what the government called as” JUST A FILM”.I think a major reformation is needed here. A film that is certified by Central Board should have no problems with the state. For Kamal Hassan it is negative publicity in a positive way or can also be taken as a publicity in a negative way but that man will go ahead unshaken doing wonders. We people are easily taken by the controversial news, and we tend to completely forget what was making news days back. This has been one of the exemplary techniques used by “THEM” to inearth the issues that could shake the nation. Should we people be so concerned about Muslim names in films? There are thousands of issues, like poverty, child labour, rapes, gang rapes, sexual assaults, inequality, gender discrimination, corruption etc which are kept concealed between these small issues. Let us exhume those instead of going behind “THEM”. After all we are not fools! We are INDIANS!