Thanks to my friend Phani for allowing me to post his article.
This article is an attempt to briefly describe “How does an Ardent Fan think?”
In this post, I wouldn’t like to name any specific cine personality because I would like you to pay more attention on my views rather than my tastes. My views are written in the form of questions in italics.
We usually start watching movies in cinema halls right from the age of two though we do not actually understand what is happening over there. In my case, I could understand that in all the movies, there is a powerful man who hits and bashes up the others when I was at the age of five. I just loved to enjoy seeing him bashing all others, no matter whether he is right or wrong. Since I cannot do that in my real life, I co-related myself with the “hitting man” and made him my Dream hero, sub-consciously. When I started understanding the dialogues, it was not only a visual treat but also a feast to my ears as I was enjoying my hero doing all the things which I dreamt of and he is receiving enormous applause in the form of dialogues, by other characters involved in the film. But I enjoyed all the lead roles equally, no matter who is playing it. But when I was doing my primary education, I came to know that “Favorite hero” is very much important to carry out my identity (just like my name, class and the place where I stay).
Now my favorite HERO/STAR came into the limelight. Since that I had to fulfill my identity, I developed my favorite hero. As I was able to compare one hero and another one, I have chosen the one who was entertaining and frequently in touch with my eyes (ie movies). And probably this is what that happens inside our brain when we say, “Nenu ABC ki puttinappati nunchi fan ni or ooha thesina appati nunchi fan ni”.
And since I have already developed my favorite hero, it made myself committed to that person to such an extent that I even started waiting eagerly for his next movie’s release, ignoring other all movies that did not have my hero. But the moment I entered teens, my concentration from the male lead started getting diverted towards the female lead for obvious reasons, and for more obvious reasons that the diversion did not last long.
When I started hearing the words like “Hits/Flops”, I have written a simple algorithm in my mind that anything and everything that is related to My hero is a HIT and everything else is a Flop. Because I considered the word “Flop” as an abuse and I literally couldn’t take it when that filthy tag (flop) is attached to anything that is related to my hero. And subsequently, I even realized that there are some people who work for the movie apart from my standard favorite hero and flexible favorite heroin, such as Director and Music Director.
But still I did not bother to pay attention on them, because I already made my lifelong commitment to my favorite hero and decided that I will watch movies just for him. As I got virtually engaged with my hero, I started liking his off-screen activities as well and made him my inspiration without knowing what he is actually up to in his personal life. In fact, I started liking my hero off-screen more than on-screen. May be because my hero delivers a splendid performance off-screen with readymade polished words (dialogues) to satisfy the pulse of fans. Anything that was talked by my hero in audio functions, public speeches made me more and more emotional. I even started weeping for his speeches. But I later realized that the main reason behind my tears was not positive emotions, but they were due to the Frustration that my hero had become a flop star. After all, I started LIVING FOR MY GOD !!!
I came to know that my hero is not the only hero in industry, but there are many others too. So I started hating all others out of jealousy, or insecure feeling though they are having better success rate than my hero.
(The term ‘Success rate’ can be manipulated according to my convenience. Let’s say if my hero has more number of hits, I call my hero a successful hero. But if the same hit is tasted by other hero, I term him as “Formula Hero” because I have got no other excuse to defend my hero).
But I never realized that I am surviving on other’s tastes, by calculating the number of hits and flops of any hero. I was so dumb to understand that Hit v/s Flop ratio just determines the number of people who have spent their money in watching the movie in a cinema hall, which practically should not affect my tastes. But since I was suffering from a disease called Ego, I locked up my brain my own dummy thoughts, and never did let any other hero enter into my brain without a “hatred” tag, because I was also suffering from a horrible cancer called INSECURITY, which we often try hard in not showing up directly in all the fields, not just the cinema.
Finally I sold my brain to the majority and its likes, but interestingly this business did not have any profits. But still I enjoyed the god damn calculations and “good looking figures”. Beware, ‘Figures’ here has got nothing to do with girls. They are the sacred collections of the temple (movie), where my hero is my god. Luvvvv yaaa phurruvvuurrrrrrr.
When I started recollecting the story behind my fanism, I liked my favorite hero when he entertained me with his movies. The liking gradually went on increasing as he continued to entertain me. But the moment I got myself stopped from being entertained by the same hero, why should I continue to hold the same positive impression which I had once? When my love towards my hero increased by the time he entertained me, why shouldn’t it decrease when he started torturing me with his movies?
Since this question was unanswerable to my imperfect logic, I threw this question away from my brain. Because I made myself so bendable that I even started fighting for the SHIT delivered by my hero by arguing that they are good quality products and desperately convince the so called critics/antis of my hero to wait for my hero’s next Fart. Because, the smell of my hero’s fart is relatively endurable when compared to my hero’s shit, and anything that is a bit endurable is of a great treat to my nostrils (eyes).
But one thing - The stinking smell differs from hero to hero. I find more comfortable and pleasure by moving with the Shit delivered by my hero, than the Fart (a better movie than the Shit) of another hero. The reason is I have got extra ordinarily flavored perfume bottle called FANATICISM which has the capacity to make even the shit smell as good as a perfume, but I cannot enjoy the fart because I do not carry my powerful perfume when I am watching other movie. Perhaps I was more sensible when I was at the age of Five (look at the first paragraph). Because I enjoyed all the movies equally, no matter whether they are good movies, bad, farts or shits. But I think it still can be considered better than liking a shit and a lot better than arguing for Shit and a way better than forcing others to taste and praise my hero’s shit.
If we all have the same love towards our respective lady loves, there would be hardly any Love failures and Divorces.
No love failures because are used to face the ‘rejections’ (by our heroes when they offer us a polished shit and we consume them).
No Divorces because we are accustomed with ‘adjustments’.
Alright!! We have talked so much about our likes and dislikes and the way we manipulate them. Let’s come to other’s tastes, likes and dislikes. This is really a very serious problem with me. I get provoked when someone doesn’t like my favorite hero’s movie. I develop hatred on him for criticizing my hero and hurt when my hero is disliked by some other person and I call him an ANTI, as if the word “ANTI” is an abuse.
I lack the inch of minimum common sense of liking & disliking, and Loving & Hating – both the pairs are equal kinds of emotions in anywhere and they can be/should be respected/ignored equally depending on how much sense does that make to our sensible brain.
If he doesn’t like the products of your hero, then why are struggling yourself by running after his ass to feed your actor’s Shit?
Few good terms I often use/think when I see something against (?) my hero or anything where my hero is not praised. They are “Edupulu, crying, kadupu manta and Antis” (as mentioned earlier). I really lacked all my senses while using them because the one who is expressing his opinion is neither a rival of my hero, nor a producer/distributor of my rival hero’s film. Then what makes him cry?
When I visit a restaurant, I order an Idly and my friend orders Upma. By this logic; I should start hating Upma or start hating my friend for ordering Upma and for not ordering Idly, or I should keep on eating the same Idly everyday even though I get bored of Idly. Love U Idly foreverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. But at least here, I find some logic in Idly because it is feeding me. But what is the Hero doing to you? NOTHING!!
Since I do not have an answer for this, I would skip this too.
Coming to the most interesting, controversial and hated topic for all the fans --
It is interesting because I love to talk and point out other’s faults (?).
It is controversial because I don’t like my faults to be highlighted along with other’s faults.
It’s the most hated topic too, because I wear a mask that displays “I HATE CASTE FEELING”. But the reality is I hate someone who exploits my faults, and truth is basically it is not a fault of one individual.
Let me get it cleared. My liking an actor or a director who belong to my caste, itself is crap (unless I believe that talent has got something to do with caste). Period.
If I do not belong to that category of liking, it is extremely good. But I have the habit of calling others as “Kula gajji”, and manipulate those tags as per my requirements. When somebody is liking somebody who belongs to his/her caste; Meaning – he is choosing his caste people to have mutual admirations. But I count others castes, and find out their favorites and verify whether they belong to the same caste or not, and have some soft corner if my caste is someone where indulged. I do all the labor work in counting and accounting the castes and castists around me, and I still shout “I HATE CASTE FEELING”. If it’s confusing, then you will understand when you come across such souls.
But yes. Although I do not have literal caste feeling (called as kula gajji), I possess something called “Vamsha Gajji”, where I don’t mind smelling the Shit of the “DOG OF MY GOD” and sometimes the “GOD OF DOG” accordingly. Just like the “Caste feeling”, even this “Clan feeling” is pretty much flexible.
Well well. This is not the end. I am also developing another kind of feeling called, “Regional feeling”. This is just the beginning and I have already started climbing the tree of success when I started Hating a Hero professionally and personally, not for his films, but for his political stand (for/against) on “My Region”.
PS: I have used the word “I” in almost all the cases. Read it in a direct speech and see whether you can connect with the article or not.
Sorry for repeating the words, which might have annoyed you. But considering the present situation of Telugu cinema, the maximum we can expect from a Star is nothing but a “Relatively good smelling Fart”, unless you carry a perfume bottle of Fanism/Fanaticsm in your brain along with you to the cinema hall, as I mentioned earlier.
All kinds of opinions are appreciated :)
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