Comments on: We disagree with Blessy http://varnachitram.com/2006/02/08/we-disagree-with-blessy/ A Blog on Cinema Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:26:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: vc http://varnachitram.com/2006/02/08/we-disagree-with-blessy/comment-page-1/#comment-353 vc Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:45:06 +0000 http://varnachitram.com/2006/02/08/we-disagree-with-blessy/#comment-353 A film lasts for maximum of 3hours, which is an escape from reality. After that you have about 21 hours of life remaining in a day to face reality. So by viewing a mimicry film, no one gets detached from the world, unless the man is sitting in a room watching one Salim Kumar or Jayasurya movie one after the other. School children commit suicide due to fear of scolding from parents for bad grades. Women commit suicide due to abuse. Watching reality or comedy movies will have negligible effect on such people. A film lasts for maximum of 3hours, which is an escape from reality. After that you have about 21 hours of life remaining in a day to face reality. So by viewing a mimicry film, no one gets detached from the world, unless the man is sitting in a room watching one Salim Kumar or Jayasurya movie one after the other.

School children commit suicide due to fear of scolding from parents for bad grades. Women commit suicide due to abuse. Watching reality or comedy movies will have negligible effect on such people.

]]> By: Ramesh http://varnachitram.com/2006/02/08/we-disagree-with-blessy/comment-page-1/#comment-349 Ramesh Thu, 13 Apr 2006 02:29:44 +0000 http://varnachitram.com/2006/02/08/we-disagree-with-blessy/#comment-349 Suicides tend to occur because of the flight from reality. Exposure to reality (by this I don't mean real happenings - as someone seemed to think saying that the events in kazhcha does not depict reality -- on the other hand, it means exposure to 'real human thoughts and emotions')can make one more stable and less likely to commit suicide. A guy who escapes from the raw emotions and reality of his life through compulsive viewing of mimicry and slapstick movies, I guess, has a greater chance of plunging into the depths of depression that lead to suicide! Because if you escape from reality, reality doesn't go away, but hunts you down like a vengeful hound sooner or later. Movies like kazhcha and tanmatra don't cause depression- on the contrary help alleviate it. Suicides tend to occur because of the flight from reality. Exposure to reality (by this I don’t mean real happenings – as someone seemed to think saying that the events in kazhcha does not depict reality — on the other hand, it means exposure to ‘real human thoughts and emotions’)can make one more stable and less likely to commit suicide. A guy who escapes from the raw emotions and reality of his life through compulsive viewing of mimicry and slapstick movies, I guess, has a greater chance of plunging into the depths of depression that lead to suicide! Because if you escape from reality, reality doesn’t go away, but hunts you down like a vengeful hound sooner or later.
Movies like kazhcha and tanmatra don’t cause depression- on the contrary help alleviate it.

]]> By: Unnikrishnan G Nair http://varnachitram.com/2006/02/08/we-disagree-with-blessy/comment-page-1/#comment-212 Unnikrishnan G Nair Tue, 14 Mar 2006 09:13:18 +0000 http://varnachitram.com/2006/02/08/we-disagree-with-blessy/#comment-212 <a href="http://sify.com/imagegallery/gallery/index.php?hcategory=13709686&hgallery=14161578&sort_idx=" rel="nofollow"><b>Blessy honoured</b></a> in his hometown Tiruvalla!! Chief guests for the evening, the stalwarts of Malayalam cinema and Blessy's heroes Mammooty and Mohan Lal... Blessy honoured in his hometown Tiruvalla!! Chief guests for the evening, the stalwarts of Malayalam cinema and Blessy’s heroes Mammooty and Mohan Lal…

]]> By: withhleld http://varnachitram.com/2006/02/08/we-disagree-with-blessy/comment-page-1/#comment-106 withhleld Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:27:06 +0000 http://varnachitram.com/2006/02/08/we-disagree-with-blessy/#comment-106 Persuant to an interview with Blessy published in Deepika Newspaper, in the column Cinema, I feel that I need to write the following. As I do not have the time and this page does not permit writing more, I would just like to point to out to Blessy’s statement ‘Nowadays a father hesitate to pamper her daughter at the age of 15 years, having her sit in his lap as he did when she was a child.’ My question: Does a father spoon feed a 15 year old daughter as he did when she was a child. If not, is that due to his lacking of love and affection or the acceptance of the growth of a child. More than physical pampeing and attention, a girl at 15 years old needs mental care and attention. This is not something new which happens in our society recetly, but something being practised by every human society since ancient days. By way of criticing the society and saying something with is natural as an abnoraml abberation is an act to self escalate by thinking that the whole society are fools and that they accept everything. One more statement of Blessy, A child try to engulf the principle or Newton and Archimedes, when it does not know, how he was created. My Question: Do the parents demonstrate in front of him to make him aware that how he was created. This is also quiet natural Mr Blessy, he will be able to learn it when he is at the right age. Just to add a street saying, No need to teach a little squirrel, how to climb on a tree. Still, we Malayalees keeping mum to hear the sermon of the so-called genius. Persuant to an interview with Blessy published in Deepika Newspaper, in the column Cinema, I feel that I need to write the following. As I do not have the time and this page does not permit writing more, I would just like to point to out to Blessy’s statement ‘Nowadays a father hesitate to pamper her daughter at the age of 15 years, having her sit in his lap as he did when she was a child.’ My question: Does a father spoon feed a 15 year old daughter as he did when she was a child. If not, is that due to his lacking of love and affection or the acceptance of the growth of a child. More than physical pampeing and attention, a girl at 15 years old needs mental care and attention. This is not something new which happens in our society recetly, but something being practised by every human society since ancient days. By way of criticing the society and saying something with is natural as an abnoraml abberation is an act to self escalate by thinking that the whole society are fools and that they accept everything. One more statement of Blessy, A child try to engulf the principle or Newton and Archimedes, when it does not know, how he was created. My Question: Do the parents demonstrate in front of him to make him aware that how he was created. This is also quiet natural Mr Blessy, he will be able to learn it when he is at the right age. Just to add a street saying, No need to teach a little squirrel, how to climb on a tree.

Still, we Malayalees keeping mum to hear the sermon of the so-called genius.

]]> By: karthiksn http://varnachitram.com/2006/02/08/we-disagree-with-blessy/comment-page-1/#comment-77 karthiksn Sat, 11 Feb 2006 14:02:30 +0000 http://varnachitram.com/2006/02/08/we-disagree-with-blessy/#comment-77 I dont say we need mimickry movies but when we see same things wat we see in our life on screen also it gets boring after some time dont u think. I dont say we need mimickry movies but when we see same things wat we see in our life on screen also it gets boring after some time dont u think.

]]> By: Unni http://varnachitram.com/2006/02/08/we-disagree-with-blessy/comment-page-1/#comment-72 Unni Fri, 10 Feb 2006 12:51:19 +0000 http://varnachitram.com/2006/02/08/we-disagree-with-blessy/#comment-72 ** Copied my comment from the original site of vellithira ** Directors can have their own opinions. But when they substantiate that through their movies, you gotta agree with them. I dont think we should be so harsh on Blessy. He was just speaking his mind ( and also proved to one and all that hes a king in making realistic movies). At the end of the day, everyone is entitled to their opinions. Blessy just voiced his. Kaazcha and Thanmaathra are examples of excellent cinema and not one moment is unreal. Now what is an example of good cinema - is it something totally unreal, a fantasy without an iota of realism or is it something out and out realistic ? Priyadarshan is an example of the former and Blessy the later. Take a blend of these two, then you have a Sathyan Anthikad. Now all three are excellent directors. Bottomline is all three make good cinema. PS: Now if you talk about originality - thats a different matter altogether :-) ** Copied my comment from the original site of vellithira **

Directors can have their own opinions. But when they substantiate that through their movies, you gotta agree with them.

I dont think we should be so harsh on Blessy. He was just speaking his mind ( and also proved to one and all that hes a king in making realistic movies). At the end of the day, everyone is entitled to their opinions. Blessy just voiced his.

Kaazcha and Thanmaathra are examples of excellent cinema and not one moment is unreal. Now what is an example of good cinema – is it something totally unreal, a fantasy without an iota of realism or is it something out and out realistic ? Priyadarshan is an example of the former and Blessy the later. Take a blend of these two, then you have a Sathyan Anthikad. Now all three are excellent directors. Bottomline is all three make good cinema.

PS: Now if you talk about originality – thats a different matter altogether :-)

]]> By: vc http://varnachitram.com/2006/02/08/we-disagree-with-blessy/comment-page-1/#comment-71 vc Thu, 09 Feb 2006 22:39:07 +0000 http://varnachitram.com/2006/02/08/we-disagree-with-blessy/#comment-71 Jo, Thanks. It is the Wordpress Dark Maple Theme. Karthik, Kerala has the highest suicide rate in the nation. What we need is more and more mimicry movies. (Just kidding). Jo, Thanks. It is the WordPress Dark Maple Theme.
Karthik, Kerala has the highest suicide rate in the nation. What we need is more and more mimicry movies. (Just kidding).

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