CBFC chairman says film stars have lost the sheen

BAMBOLIM: Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) Chairman, Prasoon Joshi on Sunday claimed that empowering towering presence of the film stars in films has gone with entertainment industry facing newer challenges.

“In the past, the one film which used to come up, people used to wait for it. But now they are smacking it the whole day, they watch it on YouTube or television. By the time it really comes out, people have indigestion with the entertainment,” said Joshi at the India Ideas Conclave 2017

“Technology has changed many more things. Now the piece of entertainment that he would wait for has become one of the pieces of entertainment. In the past, it used to be in a theatre where the film star was projected on a screen with larger than life image where he was mesmerizing, now the same person whom you used to look up to, you are looking down upon on small screen,” he said.

With the advent of the era smacking entertainment, he said the challenges of entertainment have also changed.

“We in this country want to be truly democratic; we will have to find a new way to listening to arguments and win the arguments. It can’t be this byte based, one line sort of argument. This is language extremism. So many times you look at the people in the argument and you will feel they are helpless,” Joshi said.

However, responding to a question by a delegate on artists becoming political activists, Joshi said, “that they should be sensitive towards what they are expressing. Of course you are free to express yourself but there is difference between expression and aggression. In the free world you can express yourself.”