One of the most recent controversy in Kerala was that young people are imitating the incidents in the film Premam and that was causing many problems specially inside the colleges. Many people came out criticizing the makers of the film as well as the ones who tries to imitate it. There are supporters for both these viewpoints. Now the legendary Mohanlal has come up with an astonishing blog of his discussing the same matter but with greater depth, precision and can be called the best till date in this regard. Mohanlal said that if you want to imitate someone, then imitate the great life and ideals of great people and not to go behind a film star and his/her characters.
Mohanlal said that he is writing about an issue which is very sensitive and there is a chance that his words might get misinterpreted. But as a person who is in this field for 36 years and indirectly or partially responsible for something like this over the years he had to say his view about this tendency. Mohanlal said that Cinema is just a make belief and the characters doing on that silver screen are just to entertain the mass. It has been in such a way from the beginning of cinema.
Once there was people who imitated the style of a particular star of whom he is a fan of. But later that imitation increased to a level in which people tried to imitate the doings of the character in real life as well. Mohanlal says that is not at all a right thing to do. Because they are performing an art on silver screen and it is not for anyone to imitate them. But it’s just for entertainment of the masses. We can respect them as artist and we can learn from their commitment and dedication towards that art but we should not imitate their doings on silver screen.
Mohanlal says that if you want to imitate things then try to imitate great people like Mahatma Gandhi, APJ Abdul Kalam, Bhagat Singh, Abraham Lincoln, Subhash Chandra Bose etc. Get inspiration from their great lives and imitate their great ideals of life and try to be like them. Great lives are the best thing to imitate than any art forms. Respect and appreciate art and artists but only imitate great doings, great ideals and great lives. If you respect an artist then don’t imitate him but only appreciate him.
Mohanlal has hit the bull’s eye with his blog and once again he proved that when it comes to writing about social issues he is one of the best in Kerala right now.
