Homebound ...


विषमता वादी वागणूक कुणाला दिली जात असेल तर चित्रपटात ती नेमकी कशी दाखवावी या बाबत बऱ्याच दिग्दर्शकांनी त्यांच्या चित्रपटांमधून हे प्रयत्न केले आहेत. 

प्रियकर प्रेयसीला म्हणतो, “तो पहा, चंद्र!”, हे पुस्तकात वाचण्यासाठी ठीकच वाटतं. पण चित्रपटात प्रियकराला असं म्हणण्याची गरज नसते. त्याने फक्त चंद्राकडे निर्देश करायचा असतो. 

चित्रपट ही दृश्य मध्यम आहे म्हणून, असं म्हणणं ही चुकीचं आहे. चित्रपट हे स्थळ काळाशी (spacetime) बांधलेलं माध्यम आहे. Our brain integrates multisensory information to create cohesive experience. 

मेंदू मध्ये दृश्य आणि ध्वनी प्रोसेस होण्याच्या जागा वेगळ्या असल्या तरी माणसासाठी हा एकत्रित अनुभव असतो हे नक्की. चित्रपट हे दृश्य आणि ध्वनी या दोहोंचे माध्यम आहे. 

चित्रपट हे शब्दांचे माध्यम नक्की नाही, जितकी कविता आणि कादंबरी असते. ते ध्वनी चे माध्यम आहे पण शब्दांचे नक्की नाही. ध्वनी आणि शब्द याची गल्लत करता कामा नये - याची गल्लत केल्यामुळेच चित्रपट हे दृश्य माध्यम आहे असे सरसकटपणे अगदी सगळीकडेच सांगितले जाते. 

नीरज घायवान चा होमबाउंड नेमका इथेच गल्लत करतो.

Writing to be continued ... 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Zindagi (without ‘soul’) Na Milegi Dobara

After the release Farhan Akhtar on his tweeter account said, “It’s so fantastic that everyone loves the poems in ZNMD. Thank you pa for injecting soul into the film with your gifted hand.” Undoubtedly, poems recited by Imran and penned by his ‘pa’ ‘inject soul’ into the film, and it’s the poetry in the film which saves the film from becoming a clichéd story of three friends. The poetry in ZNMD certainly gives philosophical touch to the film Effective, extensive and exact usage of the poems and poetry recitation is quite a rare phenomenon in Hindi films. Largely filmmakers prefer poetry in the form of songs and hardly anyone thinks that poetry recitation can be used as an effective technique in the film. Indeed the poems in the film take the film to another level but my question here is, do really characters and their respective journeys in the film reach to the level of the messages which poems emanate? Do the characters in Zindagi Milegi Na Dobara inhale the same air which its p...
Read more

Recipe of a South Indian blockbuster

Umpteen number of cuts, too many and manifold kinds of transitions, convulsing camera angles, usage of all sorts of sound effects, foot tapping electric numbers, choreographed calisthenics, lyrics full of slang words, gimmicking-over-the-top fight sequences, storyline filled with a bit of revenge - a bit of romance – a bit of humour, a glamdoll, an overpowering villain and omnipresent-omniscient-omnipotent superstar hero
Read more

Dear Godfather...

Image
U were different. It was ur first crime but when u killed those bastards, I felt the act was justified. U fled; u betrayed me. U married that Sicilian gal, I kept on understanding u. U came back, took over the business, convinced me, massacred ur enemies - n again the act was justified. U killed your bro-in-law and dared to became Godfather of Connie’s child... So I asked u the ‘Truth’ and u said its not true. Dear Godfather Michael Corleone, I love u and I hate myself for not being able to hate u… I am ur audience, u can call me Kay.
Read more