Indian film director and theatre personality, Sadananda Suvarna, spoke at an Indian short film competition about the creative limitations of commercial films, saying they use stereotypes to attract the masses. Short films, however, presumably for their smaller budgets, allow the filmmaker more creative latitude.
Speaking at the valedictory function of Shooting Stars, a short film-making competition organised by St. Aloysius College, Mr. Suvarna said that short films afforded the opportunity to explore one’s creativity and experiment with the medium of cinema.
He said that it was important to understand that commercial films use stereotypes as entertainment. Commercial films have several ingredients to attract the masses such as item songs, fighting scenes and sex. Makers of commercial films had to recover the huge sums of money invested in making the film. Short films on the other hand gave one the liberty to create something that one did not see in commercial cinema, Mr. Suvarna said.
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