Tear Syamaprasad For His Bad Films

Gone are the days when Mathrubhumi used to set certain standards for writers. For over 60 years since the first issue of Mathrubhumi Illustrated weekly, as it was called earlier, was released, eminent as well as budding writers often felt recognized when their works saw light in the pages of the weekly. Once a writer was approved by Mathrubhumi, that person was a recognized mainstream writer! Such was the stature of the people who got associated with the weekly. As a regular reader of Mathrubhumi for almost 20 years, I am sad with the current state of affairs. In its eagerness to ape a magazine funded by an extremist fundamentalist organization, a shitty smell emanates from its content. The weekly has stooped to the level of a college magazine or even less! Where has that fragrance of new writing gone?

What prompted me to write this is a recent controversial article by Subhash Chandran about his association with film director Syamaprasad for a film. The gist of the article can be summarized as follows: Syamaprasad hired Subhash to rework and modify some parts of a script he has already done. Subhash, who thought himself belonging to somewhat an elite class of writers attempted to rewrite the whole script. Unfortunately, it was not the director's suggestions, but his own whims and fancies that guided Subhash to reconstruct the script. Syamaprasad, after reading the script, showed his disapproval of Subhash's script in a cordial manner. Out of courtesy, he paid Subhash's remuneration. One allegation against Syamaprasad is that the remuneration was too small to the stature of Subhash! Another thing that irked Subhash is he didn't get any credit in the film.

An impartial reader could easily sense jealousy, slander, and haughtiness in Subhash's article spread in almost 7 pages of the weekly. Everyone know that Syamaprasad as a director is more accomplished than Subhash. It is simply ignorance if he considers himself as a master craftsman of anything he ventures into. Nauseating accounts of his own merits, recognitions, etc ran in to pages. His real problem was an aborted dream of sharing the fame and glory of the tinsel world with Syamaprasad. But who will not agree that a film is what its director visualizes.

As an old friend and neighbor of subhash, i would like him to desist from such mud slinging exercises. If he loves controversies and admires the limelight it generates, ok, let him carry on; because there'll be a lot of flatterers to cheer him up.