Movie critics in India are intellectually challenged, extremely biased and completely ignorant of their pre-conceived notions. They patronise people who disagree with them and detest people who present a counter-opinion to their non-sense and bull-crap.
Doesn’t this make them an Intellectual Terrorist? (It’s from a movie called Buddha in a Traffic Jam)
One requires no qualification to be a movie critic, no wait, there are a few qualities — one has to be pretentious and entitled with a deep sense of inferiority complex.
In essence, they are a ‘coconut’ — brown from the outside and white from the inside (Idea came from Rajiv Malhotra). Their behaviour is similar to that of the brown sepoys during the British Raj, which helped them rule India for 250 years as they did not permit any intellectual opposition and peddled arguments like “the British Raj is good for us” until Gandhiji came along and provided intellectual opposition to the raj.
These coconuts also follow the same model, having reserved the moral high ground for movies and actors that dance to their tunes and reinforce their bias. They despise movies that make 100s of crores and call them massy (as if that’s bad) and have self-appointed themselves and the movie they like as classy.
They dismiss and contest the government’s attempt to use movies as a medium to encourage good behaviour by displaying a warning for every smoking scene in movies as ‘unfair’, ‘ineffective’ and ‘curbs on creativity’ but hypocritically, slam movies like Kabir Singh for showing inappropriate behaviour as it sends out a wrong message.
If that warning doesn’t affect people then why will Kabir Singh prompt people to behave badly. Why do they behave like their IQ is the same as the temperature of their AC-rooms?
It’s a simple case of ‘Its-a-great-idea-but-I-will-oppose-it-as-it-is-not-mine”. Had they been the ones who had fought for these warning then they would have defended it vociferously with countless open letters and twitter campaigns (as if that matters!).
Most critics in the industry are English-speaking, completely ignorant of Bharat and have a deep-seated inferiority complex about who they are, no wonder they are so out of tune with the Aam Aadmi and are regularly rejected by them (and keep making a comeback like Rahul Gandhi).
Here is another example, Article15 got so much publicity and sparked so many debates among these morons but Hindu Medium did not, any guess why? It’s because it does not fit into the ‘Caste, Cow and Curry’ image of India abroad.
Anyway, market forces as well as the success of Hindi cinema in crafting and developing its own voice and identity despite the coconut's involuntary obstruction to creative freedom is a testament to how creative and determined we Indians can be. We have managed to bulldoze their biased opinions (masquerading as facts) and have compelled them to respect us although the primary force has been regular big numbers at the box-office and social media, which gave a voice to the Aam Aadmi and obliterated their monopoly over media and opinion-making.
Coconut critics have accepted that movies are for entertainment and not a subsidised enterprise meant to educate people (The idea to use movies as a medium to educate people and spread biased propaganda comes from the influence of the Soviet Union who did the same thing in their own now-disintegrated country).
However, they need to understand that the times, people’s mindsets and standard of living are improving and they will and are automatically demanding better cinema but it is a slow process and takes time. In the meantime, we don’t need critics to regulate our minds and tell us what’s right or wrong but then they also have to earn their living by shitting on movies and cause financial losses to the producers so I humbly request them to do a small exercise that will broaden their horizons and help them take their first strides towards creativity.
Give Govinda, who is probably one of the best thespian of Hindi cinema, his due and the respect he deserves. He was and continues to be one of the biggest megastar Bollywood has ever produced but was never fully appreciated, simply because he made a lot of money and was unaffected by their extortion.
Comedy is considered the most difficult form of acting and Govinda excelled in that but was never celebrated as an actor. On the contrary, he was one of a frequent target of their hate and anger (probably stemming from their own failure to make money or anything creative).
Comparing Govinda’s acting skills with Naseeruddin Shah would be sacrilegious and blasphemous for the coconut critics but can anyone who is familiar to both the actors’ repertoire of work, deny that Govinda is as good as Naseeruddin Shah if not better?
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