Don't learn Direction to be come Director

Don't learn Direction to become Director :
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Being a student of Masscomm from a reputed institute in India, also in the world, I had great imaginations of how a Film director could be...But when bombarded with the reality, all those have shattered into pieces...If you want to get a break into making your maiden film and are thinking of creating an impact...Forget it...Either you have to be born with silver spoon, so that your father or uncle doesn't mind a couple of crores on you and don't mind while spending that...
Offlate the whole approach towards feature films production( Especially Tollywoood) has changed its focus from content to persons, creative gratification to sheer onion business...Though there are traces of freshness here and there, they don't yeild much of the limelight deserves...Directors like Sekahar Kammula or Krish have made forays into making films with sensible content..But ask them what all they had to go thru...Sekhar apart from "Godavari" and the present "Leader", had to sell himself literally for every film... Krish had to get his father to put his own money to come out with award winning expression " Gamyam "
Any one, who with a deal of experience or with fresh ideas, first faces the producer/ Hero obstacle...What ever runs in the cinemas will be asked for..Plots, cast... any thing and everything
is asked to be followed from the presently successful films... Why on the earth they dont realise that, if the audiences have seen one content over and over recently, why would they want to see the same scenes and plots again...Now comes the direction..Be it a new producer or old producer, the first thing on his mind is...He is putting/ responsible for the money invested..So he will decide the content, scenes, cast,Music, Dialogues, Locations, Technicians and other things...That leaves nothing for the director to take call on..If the producer thinks he knows every thing, why doesn't he/ she take up the megaphone...They wouldn't do that..Because who wants to the Labour job..Producer takes the creative satisfaction and leaves the labour to one fellow in the name giving one an oppotunity of becoming director...And if the decisions made are mistakesn, Director will take the toll, A lable of unsuccessful director...
If one has to escape from this torture, he has to hide in the bask of a hero, who i spopularly known as to the Collection Bank ( Film's budgets are decided on the basis of the market a Hero is believed to have...And heroes are another pain..Poorthings they cannot judge the potential of any story as their understanding of any script would be limited to their charecter...So if the director has to satisfy the hero, he has to listen to the hero and fill the script and the film with 10 fights and 20 Massy scenes ( Mass is is refered to be popular B Grade
C Grade public Applause)
Out of all these if the director has to win through his debut film, it becomes a case of sheer luck...No wonder out of 24 Debut directors 23 were failures and one director's film did reasonable business...

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