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Sunday, October 28, 2018

Biopics overdrive

I am not running away from the fact that we need to look into the lives of wonderful human beings who have served the nation and inspire the coming generations but are we really doing that by making movies on those legends and also are we not creating false legends by creating biopics of people who defamed our country.

Firstly, consider that we are creating a biopic of people who have represented our country at international level and bought us fame, but i believe it does not end up showing all facts instead few unnecessary elements are highlighted in most of the biopics such as love, sex etc of the individual just to add the extra oomph for audience to come and watch the film. Some great people have represented the country at international level but I don't think most of their stories will not have a story which last for 2 hours long and hence we need to showcase a one hour premium of their love life with couple of duets which almost makes around 60% of the movie.

Secondly, few people who have disgraced the country at international level are also featuring in these biopics and here we are just replacing facts with fiction. Here we are brainwashed in such a way that the sole aim of the director would be to create a wave of sympathy on the person. Recently there was a film which showcased a actor as a person who was falsely implicated of crimes and was a really good person from heart. This movie sole purpose was to first to create a sympathy in audience and also a market for this tainted actor for his future films or sequels to his already hit movies.

But I still feel that there are more biopics in the pipeline and this hysteria will stay for another couple of years where the film industry cashes on audience curiosity of knowing the personal details of the living/deceased legends and tainted people. Hence we will see more films which follow these three points.
  • Choose a legend/tainted person
  • Focus 60% of the film on his love and affairs and add few duets and 20% of fictitious events
  • Create a wave of sympathy.
  • Release a political biopic at the time of elections, easy investment with good returns.
This will continue until and unless which I don't think will happen, us the audience reject these movies.