Is it me writing this blog? I doubt.
How can I be writing a blog past five posts and haven’t written any thing on cinema? One question that I find hard to answer under any given circumstances is on my favorite movie.
In one of those after dinner sessions mother would ask me about the cinema in my mind and waiting not to listen to my answer would remind me on the importance of ‘family-stories’. You know, the family saga kind of stuff with morals in it. I disagree with her for two reasons. Firstly, don’t intrude into my creative freedom; don’t tell me on what films I should be making. I am being harsh here and she is not happy or rather she is sad. I need to pacify and I say, amma in screen play there is a text book style called ‘linear writing’. It is the format where the boy is born, goes to school, plays his first innings, smokes his first ciggie, drinks his first beer, first kiss and then gets a job. He lives and lives and then lives happily ever after. I am not going to do that. I can’t go to bed when my mother is not happy. Compromise time, I will do one of those kinds one day. But no promises though.
I am having dinner with friends and surfing through the channels and stop at a channel playing film songs. Malayalam songs; and the song on screen for no particular reason ‘show cases’ heroine’s naval button. A rare occurrence in Malayalam cinema in 1990s and early 00s. Are you going to do that? Am I going to do what? To show a belly button? I feel my creative freedom questioned. I make an excuse to leave the dinner table and try to pacify my anger on a cigarette.
Become a blogger and they need to know what sort of movies you like the most. It was funny to note that even matrimonial sites would want to know your movie preferences. Are you telling me that a girl born out of soft porn liking father and action liking mother will do a Paris Hilton when she grows up? I keep quiet, I ignore and move on to the next question.
So are you going to have songs in your movies?
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