{"id":41802,"date":"2017-01-29T22:26:03","date_gmt":"2017-01-29T22:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2017\/01\/29\/liberating-medium-of-internet-gives-push-to-short-films-say-experts\/"},"modified":"2017-01-29T22:26:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T22:26:03","slug":"liberating-medium-of-internet-gives-push-to-short-films-say-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2017\/01\/29\/liberating-medium-of-internet-gives-push-to-short-films-say-experts\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberating medium of internet gives push to short films, say experts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bollywood director and screenwriter Sujoy Ghosh, whose 14-minute short film \u201cAhalya\u201d created a stir on the internet, feels the increased usage of internet and smartphones has brought about the new wave of making short films.<\/div>\n
Talking on the emergence of short films in India, Ghosh said the internet has provided the short film makers with a perfect platform which was not there earlier.<\/div>\n
\u201cAt the moment, when we make a short film, the internet is our only medium. The number of short films have significantly increased now as there is a medium to put it up for viewing. Earlier, if you made a short film, where would you put it up except for limited screenings at those little specialised film clubs?\u201d Ghosh said at the Tata Steel Kolkata Literary Meet on Sunday.<\/div>\n
The famed director of the 2012 hit film \u201cKahaani\u201d, said internet would continue to be the main medium for short films as going to multiplex for a 15-minute film \u201cwould not be economical\u201d.<\/div>\n
\u201cFor you to have a coffee and watch a short film in a multiplex, they would charge you a ticket and that ticket would not generally make sense for a 15-minute pleasure. So, the economics part of the matter would not make much sense,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n
Lauding the fact that internet has no censorship, he said the short film makers should be given a certain amount of creative freedom to experiment, so that it strikes the viewers within the short span.<\/div>\n
\u201cWith a short film, you have to give the maker a certain amount of creative freedom. If you don\u2019t do something interesting or out-of-the-box, then people are not going to talk about it. If they don\u2019t talk about it, you are dead. Then there is no point in making a short film,\u201d Ghosh said.<\/div>\n
Bollywood actor Tisca Chopra, who produced \u201cChutney\u201d and was a co-panelist in the talk show, said she finds short films to be more free and liberating where the maker can do away with the cliched requirements of popular cinema.<\/div>\n
\u201cBecause the short films are sponsored in a way by somebody, the normal criteria of a film — like having a star — goes out of the window. The content tells you which person to cast or what music to put. There is more scope for experimentation,\u201d she said.<\/div>\n
She also said micro-contents like short films are going to be the key in the future as the audience of today would pick and choose the time and content of what they want to see.<\/div>\n
\u201cI think micro content has a great future. People want to watch things at their own time and in their own pace. So growth of individualism is happening. Viewers are now deciding what they want to watch and when they want to watch it. That is what is so liberating about the internet,\u201d Chopra said.<\/div>\n
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Bollywood director and screenwriter Sujoy Ghosh, whose 14-minute short film \u201cAhalya\u201d created a stir on the internet, feels the increased usage of internet and smartphones has brought about the new wave of making short films. Talking on the emergence of short films in India, Ghosh said the internet has provided the short film makers with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}