Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Comedy in Telugu movies?

The buffoonery of two characters, an elder and a dark unattractive man, who would hit each other for no reason, aping donkeys-that was the film farce for a few days. Now it is the season of joke book jesting- a few stale jokes are selected from the collection of jokes, they are enacted and inserted in the movie. We hardly find any link between one scene and the other. Gone were the days of situational comedy when humour formed an integral part of the plot of the movie. Now it appears as if a few comic scenes are shot separately and kept ready for sale so that the producers can buy a few and attach them to their movies in between.

Comedy in Telugu movies- it won’t make you burst in to laughter. What they show are but a few old jokes straight away lifted from a joke book and a comedian accompanying the hero would serve the purpose in such cases. In some other ‘hilarious comedies’ humour is found in scenes such as woman beating her husband, a man having extra marital adventures, and a comedian lecturer teaching naughty students.
Campus humour in films has become so monotonous that we have to tickle ourselves to make ourselves laugh. They always make a buffoon of a teacher. In case of a woman teacher, its more atrocious, she would be portrayed as a seductress and the movie doesn’t need a vamp any more. Is there a showman who can redo the good old situational comedies (of Bapu and Ramana) to quench the thirst of humour lovers?

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