Globalisation has changed filmmaking

GLOBALISATION has completely changed the concept of filmmaking at the Bollywood. Film producers are now more keen to make films for the ?dollar people? who preferred to watch the movies in multiplex cinema houses.

GLOBALISATION has completely changed the concept of filmmaking at the Bollywood. Film producers are now more keen to make films for the ‘dollar people’ who preferred to watch the movies in multiplex cinema houses.

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It was a general feeling of the producers that ordinary cinema halls, which catered to the needs of the ordinary viewers, would fetch more profits for them and hence they were concentrating on the people who could go to multiplex cinema.

This was stated by the noted film scriptwriter Atul Tiwari while talking to newspersons here at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-K) here on Saturday.

Atul had come to participate at the ten-day film festival ‘Umang-2006’ organised by the members of the IIT Film Society.

Atul said the ongoing trend in the film industry under compulsions of globalisation was likely to deprive the middle class film audience of its right to watch good films at the ordinary cinema halls. He said scripts are suggested to be prepared in a manner, which could draw crowd from among the NRIs living in distant countries as they could afford to pay handsomely to the film.

Atul said that normally the scriptwriter was free to develop his own innovative idea for a producer and the director. But in real sense, script writing was a collaborative effort of the writer, director, producer and the actors. “The producer cannot allow a script which goes against his business interests. The director on the other hand can give suggestion for making the script more appealing. Finally, we have to consider the suggestions of the actors of the films to give a final shape to the story.”