VISWAROOPAM
LESSONS TO LEARN
Lesson.1: Never Bet
more than 50% of your wealth on a
single venture. In fact, 25% is more appropriate. You will possibly need
balance 50% / 75% for court cases, for new visas, pass ports etc.
Lesson.2 : You can criticize people who are weak and
docile – without reason or with reason. Many films do it routinely. No Law
& Order problem ever comes.
Lesson.3 : Censor Board viewing & satisfaction is
not ENOUGH. Single Judge viewing and satisfaction also is not enough. Do you Know,
what is enough? (I don’t).
Lesson.4 : It is easier to get offended without seeing
the movie - than after it.
Lesson.5 : It is easier to fight matters in court and
abide by decisions of court. Not so easy to make peace with objecting Groups,
whom you can’t even count.
Lesson.6 :
Trouble shooting means – shooting trouble to areas where none existed
earlier. 3 to 4 goons seem to be enough, for a law and order Problem.
Lesson.7 : If you are too much apologetic, many assume
that you are at fault. If you have the courage, and the means, fight. Else, don’t get into the arena.
Lesson.8 : Freedom of Expression is not Free.
Lesson.9 : Which Group ever came forward to condemn
AlQueda or Taliban when they were, are and will be killing- Muslims first,
others next – all in the name of religion? Which Group ever came forward when
Pakistani terrorists were, are and will
be killing women, children and old people also – Muslims first, Others next -
all in the name of religion? Does any reader remember any such protest?
Lesson.10 : So why Kamal Haasan should bother, if Muslim
terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan are killing docile Muslims there in the
name of religion?
Lesson.11 : You can show any amount of sex, violence or
eve-teasing in India. No Problem. Censor Boards do pass them. Each film passed becomes a
precedent for more to come in the next film. Nobody bothers, if the same is
replicated on the streets and in the buses in Delhi and all over the country.
If Minors are becoming more and more violent and sex maniacs – nobody will
attribute it to the violence and sex from Films. From where else is the idea of violence and
violent sex coming to children?
Lesson.12 : But, if you show religious violence in
Pakistan and Afghanistan – you are in trouble in India.
Lesson.12 :
Central Government must find a
final authority who can finally decide matters relating to films, Journalists,
freedom of expression and so on – since censor Board and single Judge Benches are not
final authorities to hear such matters. There should be no appeal from a final
authority.
When I start thinking of what lessons we must all learn
from viswaroopam’s troubles, I find, the list is growing and growing. No end. I
also do not know if these are the lessons Kamal Haasan or any of the readers
want to learn. As always, there will be
supporters, opposers and others. But, we must finally come to a consensus opinion
on what lessons we must learn.
After all, Kamal Haasan has to spend his balance
Property, left if any, on his next movie. Again, ostensibly, his movie,
marudanayagam seams to deal with another contentious issue like religious
conversion. If that be so, he must be prepared to lose all of his property (to be earned in future) once
again.
I like his movies and Kamal as a
person too, but not his fragile guts and not his tendency to spend his total property
and perhaps more than that, on such contentious movies. . But, it happens – when
we don’t know whom we are up against.
Superrrrrrr...............
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