Vishal Kohli: Wanna be phillim maker: Will you listen to me?

A filmmaker would say “Jo bikta hai, wo banta hai”. A film maker like Dibakar Benarjee says, “The audience mind has been corrupted to what I called Emotional pornography. Porno has that comeshotand you are building up to it. Similarly ye Emotional pornography hai. Ke BH**C**D har wakt kuch na kuch hona chaiya.” Moving further with the discourse on films, a question what do films do? They reflect the societal realities , they entertain etc are the most generic answers you will get. No one will ever say, and I am talking about the people in this business, that films make money. Big Money !! So, the question how they make money? It makes money through distribution channels like cinema hall releases, music sale, overseas collection etc. But who pays that money? It’s the audience. And why will they pay money to see which someone else has made? To be entertained! So far so good! But let’s try to see another aspect for films, especially in context of commercial films. Talking about main ...

“ I am employed, I am employed” were the first words uttered by me, when I got campus placement for my first job. “ Thank God I am free ” were the words that I spoke when I quit my job after 2years. Rest assured, I worked with one of the top software firm in India and what happened in-between is history. My first three months in the firm were training time. I studied and made projects in languages like: C/C++, UNIX, Java, MS-SQL etc. It was necessary to get a minimum of 50% marks in each subject and an overall of 60% to clear the training. Only I know how I could complete the humongous task. Expectation after completion: The gates to the fantasy world of I.T. Industry would open up, rolling out the red carpet for me. On the contrary: I had to sit idle (on bench as they say) for 1 month before some dumb ass would give a damn. I went to office everyday with the hope that “today someone will introduce me to the enigmatic world”, but the world is a busy place (busy being idle) and I was...