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Churukk!!!
October 1st, 2004
Churukk to Our Movie Industry
Our film industry
controversy is taking new direction each day. There was election in the
film chamber and few people got changed. New people are having opinions
different from Basanth Kumar Patil, who was shouting against non-Kannada
films like anything! Hence there is indifference within them itself! In
that case, we can least expect anything good coming out of this situation.
It clearly looks like this protest’s main intention is money and not to do
any good to our language!
If we ever want to improve the
condition of Kannadigas, we have to have a common agenda and a common
motive, even if different people work with different visions. I urge people
to get united, before fighting against such serious issues and against the
strong (?) forces (non-Kannadigas!!!) Yes, if we become soft, they become
harder. On the other hand, they (non-Kannadigas) are anyhow softer at
international arena when it comes to tackling non-Indians! So the
inference is: “Kannadigas are the softest (read “guggugalu”!!!) in the
entire world”
North
Karnataka people are struggling without development. They are urging for a
separate state. NRKs (Non resident Kannadigas) of
Goa,
Kasargodu, etc are crying for help. We can’t hear that (I come from
Bangalore
and I assume that most readers of this website hail from Bangalore & Mysore
predominantly). Without their (North Karnatakans’) help and without all of
us getting united, how can we fight against strong forces?
I bet, if
North Karnataka people get developed (at least half of the
development and facilities compared to
Bangalore,
Mandya and Mysore), they will solve the entire problem of Karnataka on their
own. I assure they are not soft people at all. They are like cobras. If
an anonymous or disliked person touches them, they will bite them for sure.
They can guard all the interests of Kannada. But first they should get
their share, isn’t it? Their stomach should be filled at least to get the
energy to fight, isn’t it? They should believe that they belong to
Karnataka. They actually fought for unity of all Kannadigas to form a
single Karnataka (Mysore
state wasn’t interested in this). Now their dream is becoming false.
People sitting in air-cooled
Bangalore,
rather than hot Bidar (applies even to me!) would not understand these
problems. Ok… Our industry might be facing some problems. But I put the
problems of North Kannadigas (poverty, unemployment etc) ahead of this.
There should be some meaning when we fight for Kannada. These bastards
should first learn to produce proper films (Have you seen the Kannada films
in the last 5 years or so, one or two excuses are not enough. OK, even if
the other language films are not great, don’t point fingers on them. Why
should we imitate them? Their situation is completely different from
ours’).
Even with so many problems, some of
the dirty films like Excuse me (observe the poor techniques, camera work and
absurd dialogues through out this film), Chandra chakori (see the ugly
comedy scenes of this film), remakes like Yejamaana etc are becoming hits.
So what else these bastards want. Are they suffering more than the innocent
north Kannadigas? Some people migrating from
North Karnataka
to Bangalore are getting changed to Bangalorean mentality, so we can’t call
them as innocent people. The innocents are guys like Patil Puttappa and
others who treat
North Karnataka
as also a Kannada region and are resided there for a long period.
Why to care on Kannada film industry
when there are far severe problems faced by Karnataka (Kaveri,
Krishna,
Belgaum,
etc.). Karnataka is also struggling with caste problems (even today!) At
least the industry men are having more than 3 meals every day. I still
think that if they give proper films, they will not have too many problems.
Not too long ago, didn’t films like
OM, Nammoora Mandhara hoove, Janumadha
Jodi, A,
Upendra,
America
America etc compete with other language films? Mind you, in those days even
the non-Kannada films were good. But now they are also poor. If we are
conscious enough, this is the ideal time to beat the non-Kannada films! I’m
sure plenty of non-Kannadigas residing in
Bangalore would turn up to Kannada films, if
they are good.
Cosmopolitan
Bangalore itself would become the gateway for
Kannada films to shine at not just national arena, but maybe at
international level too! This will solve all the problems faced by
Kannadigas—as I believe in films changing the status of an Indian language.
We should stop shouting that outsiders are occupying our land, tell me how
on earth can we stop this? We should instead do some constructive thinking.
The film-makers should solve the
problems for themselves (if they give proper films consistently, it’s all
over—all their problems are solved automatically! They don’t need to do
anything else) and then try to solve the general problems faced by Kannada.
Most Kannada films today are focused only at
Bangalore
& Mysore and involve only masala and remake concepts.
North
Kannadigas and coastal Karnatakans are treated like buffoons in their
films. Films are not attracting all kinds of people in our land. In such
case there is no point in just shouting Kaveri, Kannada, etc in songs. The
film-makers (who mostly hail from Southern Karnataka) don’t have any moral
reason to seek the help of entire Karnataka for their protests.
Dirty crooks, try to understand the
situation carefully—because all your efforts will go in vain. You can’t
fight against the cosmopolitan
Bangalore
and the fragile borders (Maratha dominant Mumbai-Karnataka, Telugu dominant
Hyderabad-Karnataka. I don’t know from where they got these names:
Mumbai-Karnataka, Hyderabad-Karnataka!!! Very unique to us!!!).
If you want to do any good to our
language, please first throw away those Tamilians and Telugites from your
film units, stop bringing so many foreign artists, stop remakes. This is
like licking their (other language people) feet closing your eyes and then
kicking on their back showing all your 32 teeth with an ugly smile.
Understood idiots??? Now it’s time to check if all your teeth are firmly
placed in your jaws!!!
See slowly the non-Kannada films are
getting released. Now you yourselves have created a tough situation for
Kannada films. I’m sure there will be half-moon on every Kannada film
released from now on. The theater-owners, distributors are all against us
now. Definitely such protests are substantial if we first sort out
ourselves, get united and have a strong motive and procedure before stepping
into such mission. Don’t ever compare this protest with Gokak chaluvali
please… To add to the worries, high court as issued notice to Karnataka
government and Kannada film industry considering a petition against the
7-week deferral in release of non-Kannada films in Karnataka.
Chaps, first do something
meaningful—even if Karnataka is not getting the required resources &
facilities from the centre, at least we will distribute whatever little we
are getting and whatever we have among all of us (We are not such a poor
state definitely, we have a major city like
Bangalore in
Karnataka). We should first correct our own indifferences. Then we will
see from there…
The sad part however is, “Kaveri is
Mandya’s problem and not Karnataka’s”, “Krishna
is North Karnataka’s problem and not Karnataka’s”, “Kannada is Karnataka’s
problem and not India’s”, “India is Indians’ problem and not other
countries’!!!” This is how we are creating boundaries! We can’t think
beyond these boundaries.
“Our family only, our relatives only, our friends
only”—finally the boundaries would become “I’m only… rest die!!!” and
ultimately even this “I” will be torn into pieces… Before that happens, let
us get reunited…
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