AN INSISTENCE TO DECENTRALIZATION

So many news buzzing-up these days about the establishment of an alternate film industry in Bhopal. And the news has brought euphoria in the locales of Madhya Pradesh specially Bhopal, and the resident actor’s lies within reach. Bhopal although do not have the sufficient resources as of now but the transformation is fast, as more and more filmmakers are taking interest in the city of nawabs for its unbeatable and hypnotic beauty. The lakes present its effigy in a pin-up manner.

From ‘Naya Daur’ back in 1957 to the latest Prakash Jha flick Aarakshan, about half a dozen films have been shot in the city, and many more are in the list including Rumy Jaffrey’s ‘Gali Gali Me Chor Hai’ and Prakash Jha’s Satyagrah. The credit of pulling attention on the city should go to Mr. Prakash Jha, who portrayed the city in very beautiful & elegant manner in his two films; and he proved his decision right to select the city. The second and third fiddle cast available here are local theatre or television artists who owing to different situations came into their life wasn’t able to move to Mumbai to pursue their dreams. So when they get an opportunity to work with such eminent directors and stars they agree on the offering they get to know about. In this way concentration of films budget has been cut either, or been shifted in other technical requirements.

The initiative is indeed appreciable to decentralize the talent exist in such a huge country. Whenever one dreams to pursue a career in films and media he/she reluctantly has to move to Mumbai, or else he/she has to abandon the dreams. Likewise in theatre too there an exits very rare opportunity to excel as theatre is a non-paid medium. The trench in between these two modes of entertainment is huge, the bollywood attracts each and everyone right from artists to businessman’s while theatre attracts only passionate artists. The lifestyle also varies of the artists associated; one is miserable while others are highly prosperous.

In India we have the world’s largest talent pool but the process of upbringing the same is as difficult as ‘to burst the coconut with your palm.’ In this case it’s necessary to decentralize the developed hubs for various activities and arts, and transform the other nuffs into the workplaces. It might have required three things – Either Government has to relax the policies to attract more and more activities across the state, or the productive persons has to create niche in the other cities which would then work as a benchmark for others, or the local talent should have to commence their own industry with the support of senior artists and few money-makers to decentralize the actions. Yes but for now the move is indeed significant. I hope that in other streams also this would begin soon and decentralization would help in development of entire nation rather than a few strong destinations’.