KG George on Visionary Film Makers
Posted by Kalyan Kumar
What distnguishes an ordinary film maker from a good director is his vision. Thus spake veteran K. G George. As you all remember, the jury headed by George created a furore when it left the best directors's slot vacant in the recent kerala film award selection. Reason proferred was "a suitable candidate could not be found". Adoor Gopalakrishnan had already requested not to consider him for the best director award.
Later in a programme with a TV channel, George confronted the allegations in the media that the jury was partisan and had insulted the genius of many upcoming directors. Making a brilliant defence of himself, George said "The new breed of directors lack vision. And the best cinema award does not mean that its director is the automatic choice for being the best director".
In his view, the vision of the director gets shaped up from the attitude of that craftsman read filmaker towards the helplessness of the human beings, individually as well as collectively. And
surprisingly George and his team could not find a director in Malyalam having that artistic vision. The undertone was that, directors have to raise themselves to a higher plane and become real creators than mere production controllers.
It is not clear this hypothesis was to deliberately snub some of our high brow directors. But George had a point, that if cinema has to be seen as a cultural expression, then it must be more humane. Ditto to its creators also.
What distnguishes an ordinary film maker from a good director is his vision. Thus spake veteran K. G George. As you all remember, the jury headed by George created a furore when it left the best directors's slot vacant in the recent kerala film award selection. Reason proferred was "a suitable candidate could not be found". Adoor Gopalakrishnan had already requested not to consider him for the best director award.
Later in a programme with a TV channel, George confronted the allegations in the media that the jury was partisan and had insulted the genius of many upcoming directors. Making a brilliant defence of himself, George said "The new breed of directors lack vision. And the best cinema award does not mean that its director is the automatic choice for being the best director".
In his view, the vision of the director gets shaped up from the attitude of that craftsman read filmaker towards the helplessness of the human beings, individually as well as collectively. And
surprisingly George and his team could not find a director in Malyalam having that artistic vision. The undertone was that, directors have to raise themselves to a higher plane and become real creators than mere production controllers.
It is not clear this hypothesis was to deliberately snub some of our high brow directors. But George had a point, that if cinema has to be seen as a cultural expression, then it must be more humane. Ditto to its creators also.
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