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It wasn’t until a few months after I had seen this movie, did I completely comprehend the message. Now, by message, I do not mean the one the makers of this hugely successful Kannada movie were trying to make – if there really was one. But the more subtle and quite possibly the stronger one, that the audience had sent back to the movie making industry in Karnataka.
There had been a bizarre lull of mediocrity and cliché that had surrounded the Karnataka movie world for several years before ‘Mungaru Male’ came along. Remakes galore had reigned supreme – and they still do – in a land where the nectar of home grown screenplays had ruled the box office merely a couple of decades ago. How can one forget Dr. Rajkumar’s pristine performance in the ‘back to roots’ saga ‘Bangarada Manushya’? When can we ever look past the scintillating images of Karnataka’s real picture portrayed in Shankar Nag’s features? How did we manage to go beyond the brilliance that made movies like ‘Sharapanjara’ and ‘Nagarahavu’ Puttanna Kanagal’s signature?
They say movies should be a mirror to the society they represent. While not all movies need to be a ‘learning experience’, they still need to have the ability to connect with the audience it is targeting. Given the multi-ethnic and cross cultural diversity Karnataka now boasts of, the movies being churned out are rarely anything beyond a badly made love story at best.
How many more times would the audience sit through the well organized and prim looking locales of a foreign land as the leading pair danced around it to a borrowed song? How long would it take for the dialogues being written to become more natural and articulate to the common man? Where should they have looked to find authentic family based humor rather than the crass and vulgar menu dished out in the name of comedy? When would the stories finally start moving out of make believe colleges attended by men and women in their 30s?
The success of ‘Mungaru Male’ was not just the success of the movie. It was a successful attempt by the audience in telling all the movie makers of the literature-rich state to kindly put more trust in them. It was a plea sent out to the big wigs of the industry to please try and capture the spectacle Karnataka’s beauty lies in. It was a kind request to dish out different and less predictable screenplays with fresh faces and new voices.
The real meaning of ‘Mungaru Male’ lay in the audience who has always been ready to accept a refreshing offering. Even if it was at the cost of non-Kannada leading ladies and playback singers.
..ShaKri..
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