AMOL GUPTE - ROADIE ON CINEMA sT.

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AMOL GUPTE
ROADIE ON CINEMA sT.

Jim Morrison once told Rolling Stone magazine, ‘I’m interested in films because to me, it’s the closest approximation in art form that we have to the actual flow of consciousness, in both dream-life and in the everyday perception of the world.’ The cult rock star’s philosophy would not be too different from Amol Gupte’s – the man who wrote the superbly touching saga about a dyslexic child, Taare Zameen Par (winning the Filmfare award for his endeavour). A man who is consumed by the possibilities of the art form called cinema, Gupte “having gone to the film institute as an actor” admits that he “just got possessed by the spirits there” and his journey took shape from that point on.

Gupte’s is a bold, unconventional and unconstrained mind, and he can easily be the neo-revolutionary face of Bollywood. “There is a tumble of aesthetics that keep forming over a period of 20-30 years; so at every change of that tumble, there is a new aesthetic about which one feels very hopeful. As one stands today, there is a need for that aesthetic to be addressed,” believes the man, who is also a painter.

Indian cinema seems ripe for such a “tumble of aesthetics.” Gupte believes that the emergence of the multiplex and the accessibility to DVDs will be the key factors in taking Indian cinema to the next level so that it can serve the “different palettes to be fed.”

Rare people like Gupte could be the ones leading the new age from the front. He values intellectual prowess and believes in weaving it into the grammar of cinema without upsetting the intrinsic appeal of the medium. “If a certain powerful thought emerges due to intellectual intercourse, then that person would automatically become big for me,” says Gupte, underlining just how much he treasures ‘thinking’.

Collaboration, not competition is his credo (“I don’t believe in competition. There is no competition at all, it is all about living. It is about falling and living. Why competition?”). When told that he has been included in a list of 75 Indians who will make a ‘century’ for India, he first exclaimed, “Goodness, that is a lot of responsibility!” and then said: “It’s about where you are and what you are thinking.” Amol Gupte definitely is thinking, and in the right direction.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008

An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).

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