Biopics are to stay in Indian Film Industry. A
Biopic is a cinematic conversion of the life of an individual who has earned
fame in the career and reached the status of a celebrity. The intention of this
venture is to highlight the ups and downs of the individual in the career
graph. In recent times we have had a lot of Biopic. The question is, are these
Biopics necessary???
Biopics are not new to us earlier any historical
movie made was indeed a Biopic. We never questioned those Biopics two decades
back, why are we sceptical about them now???
As I understand earlier a biopic gave an inner view of the character
regarding both personal as well as public life. Audience were double thrilled
when their favourite actor was donning the role of their favourite personality.
Many untold or unrecorded events in the life of the character that were veiled
by the media or biographers can be revealed in a biopic. Sometimes Biopic was
to be a summed up version of various writes on a particular character.
Then why do we have to have such uproar on a Biopic
when it is made on a gangster???
Biopics made in recent times do not reflect the
event as it is for commercial reasons. In the climax of the movie Dangal the
father of the wrestler was shown to be locked up in the rest room. In reality
Mahavir Phogat, the real life father was very much present at the final bout.
The screenplay was twisted a little to make the audience more emotional.
Biopics are meant to glorify but not to the extent of making it a pro-film. If the
Biopic is on a gangster there is no doubt the director will show the police,
judiciary and media in low light to highlight gangster character.
Cinemas do not remain purely entertainment any
longer now it has been used as a medium to instil a thought. We had many movies
that glorified crimes which started from the English movie “Godfather” a
frictional novel by Mario Puzo. We had many Indian movies which glorified the
crime like Satya by Ram Gopal Varma. I would say it was glorifying criminality.
Movies reach the masses and impress the youth. Youngsters who watch them begin
to think that crimes are normal. After feeding our audience with such movies
now the trend is to glorify criminals.
Unfortunately we have become such an
audience that we readily accept a Biopic of a criminal. Recently we had a Biopic of a gangster in Gujarat with a leading actor playing the role of the
gangster. Now we have a brilliant director in Bollywood who has made a movie on a Movie
Star by spicing up things. To make the movie hit among masses he conveniently avoids showing the underworld in bad light
and adds imaginary story bits that would make the fans go-gaga-over.
It is so unfortunate that while Hollywood makes a
movie on “The Man Who Knew Infinity” a great Indian Mathematician called
Srinivasa Ramanujan, we have our own directors scripting on Gangsters and directing Criminals. Not that we do not make Biopic on inspirational personalities, a
Biopic was directed by Sandeep Varma on Manjunath (remember him he was an
employee of Indian Oil Corporation Limited). He was shot dead for sealing down
two petrol pumps in Uttar Pradesh for selling adulterated fuel. He hailed from
a poor family and had taken a loan to complete his management course at IIM,
Lucknow. He never wanted to join the private sector or a multinational company,
his aim was to improve the system of allotting at filling stations.
If only our brilliant directors script a Biopic on such characters and our ace actors don the
role of such personalities, the real meaning of a Biopic can be justified.
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