I accept there is a dark side to the
glamour world but there is another side to show business too, the better side
that only an insider can know. Cinema is perhaps the most sensitive medium
where multiple talents come together There is creativity and compassion, warmth
and wisdom that an outsider will never know. Inaccessibility prevents
identification.
Thirty
years is a long journey and over the many decades I have watched superstars
rise and fall and rise again, I have watched media barons leap and crash
empires. Watched journalism blossom from manual typewriters and spacious tape
recorders into floppies, CDs and now mobile recorders and cameras... There
was a time the printed word was sacrosanct, a time when electronic media was
invasion and today, a time when social media is our lifeline!
Insecurity is an overwhelming
emotion in any creative profession and in the film industry even more so. Film
stars are peddlers of emotion. There are more emotional wrecks in the film
world than in any other place. Every thing comes in excess here. There is shame
and scandal, exhibitionism and eccentricity but there is also diversity and energy,
a fatal attraction about the world of cinema that is obsessive. Once you've
been a part of it you feel incomplete without it.
I’m a film critic because I love
cinema, I’m an author because I love writing and my profession allows me both. The
experiences have been an integral part of my growing up. Today, when someone
asks me the question, ‘How does it feel to be a film journalist’ I look at the
person asking. I wonder if it is worth reacting, strongly. I’m not sure.
@bhawanasomaaya
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