User talk:Dipendra Nath Guha

Regime Of Copy-Cats : Short-Lived
Gone are the days when the Bengali Film Industry ruled the roost. Fiftie, sixties and "seventies enjoyed the "Salad Days" of the Benbali cinema. Even the main stream would remain nourished with saps of aesthetics. "Saptapadi", "Harano-Sur","Uttarfalguni","Maru Teertha Hinglaj","Deep Jele Jai","Kancher Swarga","Ami Se O Sakha"-- and the innumerable quality films had gemmed the Bengali Cine edifice. Such film were made, not merely for making sake, but creating sake. Directors, producers, story-writers,musicians, script-writers and all the related associates sat in a body, strained their nerves to procure the best, and with impeccable sincerity and dedications films were, in the long run, projected on the screen. The makers would bend for literature and the bare-bones were borrowed from Rabindranath, Bibhutibhusan, Tarasankar,Banaphool, Ashapurna Devi and the host of literary genius.As the health of a child is determined by proper nutrients,nurturing,nursing, a quality film too is an issue of sound genesis. Other than a very few, the present Bengali films, by and large, are made from "step-motherly" nursing. Most of them are laid up with the ailments of "plagiarism". Influence is not theiving."Harano Sur"made in late fifties was an infuential aftermath of Hollywood classic "Ransome Harvest". The films, made of late,are the typed products of the beaten track, mostly culled and cultured from the Mumbai hits. Even there are the films in which scene for scene is the document of copy-cating.Like road-side so called Chinese Chow-mein, they are gulped by hungry consumers, and the sale of antacid boosts up. Consequently, notwithstanding their commercial pregnancy, barrenness of tastes can hardly be altered. The worst effect is that such films, before long, pass into oblivion. Art of story-telling cannot be everybody's cup of tea, chiefly, not of the copy-cats.