Piracy: A Whole New World of Cinema

Once I had a brief encounter with a film producer. Later when I read interviews given by him, I found out that he said, next time he produces a film, he may himself upload it in the internet, so that everyone can share. The reason was simple. The previous film which he produced was a small budget film and they were short of cash. Thus, they barely managed with the campaigning for the film. The film was not much of a success in the beginning. Suddenly there film was climbing up the ranks and was doing the rounds all of its own! As the reason they found out later that some one has uploaded the film in the internet and helped others to know about it.

Now a very glamorous and trendy slogan is "Kill piracy, save (my whatever product)". Talking of films they shut down normal cinema halls one by one and force you to go for the multiplexes. It’s true that most of the people can pay to see films in these places. Who cares if for that I am forced to watch only one cinema in my budget where I used to watch many? But the question is what if I don't want to see the films which they are showing? Are we puppets of the system? To see what they show? Talking about world cinema literally nothing get screened in the cinema halls in here. People are not ashamed of that. Maybe they are afraid of that. Because if that happens there profits from selling cheap celluloid s will fall drastically. They may argue that all the people are not ready for that much exposure. Then how come a world movie gets popular when some one knows that there home production is a copy from that? Stupid quiz shows where knowing a set of answers make you famous help people to get a global exposure. But if knowing the name was enough then why the printing presses or the sets? If we could bypass these in between processes like letting other know something only after a number of people has made there profits from it, maybe people would be benefited.

It is more or less true that people can buy some of the global cinema DVD s which comes lately in stores. If that is true, then how come millionaires cry telling that they are broke because some students have downloaded there films from internet? They can also do with a little less profit! Someone who spends crores on publicity, is surely interested in profit rather than making people know about there product. That publicity or "kill piracy" slogan in itself are generating other avenues for making profits. Now people determines a film's success in all sort of ways other than those related to cinema. Like how much was spent to make that movie or whose son directed it or how many stars acted there etc.. In the past an actor used to get famous after acting in a film. Nowadays a film gets famous depending upon who is acting in the film.

Piracy or the Internet gave access to the vast collection of films, knowledge. It’s hard to believe that these geniuses are failing to understand that if world cinemas along with home productions are screened here in a reasonable quantity and price, then why will someone take all the trouble to do piracy? Piracy also helps a lot of people to earn there bread. When they cry because they may be forced to eat bread in place of there pastries, its justified. But those who ate bread from the beginning should be forced to believe that they can spend more and they are there only to supply the God pastries. It’s a common image that a millionaire should not cough! They cannot get angry just because some more number of people has seen or got the access to something. They can only feel insecure. They are no more Gods sitting in a sofa and pretending to casually drop some names of films to which only they have the access. There time of offering no choices to people than watch there movies may very well end. If cinema is made for the sake of cinema, then its supreme goal is to be watched, not money. In past money was not a constraint in making masterpieces.