Tuesday, December 12, 2006

It is Time for Indian Silver Screen to evolve

The other day I was listening to a report on Tsunami reconstruction in Banda Aceh, Indonesia in NPR, the report started with people in temporary tents watching a dubbed Bollywood movie. Another day on a report on Afghanistan, the report started with a dubbed Bollywood movie. I've heard similar reports as far as the Gulf to the borders of Africa. The teritory from Africa / Arabia to east asia, there is no other big Entertainment Industry. The other big countries China / Japan has a film industry. We could say that probably Japanese film industry produces some quality movies. Being a communist country, China lacks the creative class. But on shear volume basis, no other film industry comes close to the Indian entertainment industry in Asia. China is slowly opening up but its a long way for the people of china to develop a free mindset and for an industry to grow. Thus it is high time that the indian goverment lays out a path to recognize the film development as an industry. Even though I'm personally skeptical about managing creation / innovation, various management gurus and academics have come up with frameworks. The western world is operating the film development as a industry (succesfully to a major extent). Lets brace the inevitable.

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