Imagine a life, you book a cab, the cab comes exactly on location without calling you three times. The cab arrives super clean. No smell. No random unwashed sofa cover on the seats. The AC is on full blast. You donโt need to ask bhaiya ac on kar do. The driver is not eating ghutka. No religious music is playing. No next cab booking siren is blaring on his phone. The driver doesnโt honk or abuse the car ahead of him. You sit in peace. The destination arrives. You say thank you. Driver says thank you. Just imagine.
Why should we expect the audience to stand with us when we wonโt stand with each other?
How many times do we see a director openly, generously praise another directorโs work? Not often enough. We guard our praise like itโs currency we canโt afford to spend. We measure, we compare, we quietly hope the other one doesnโt get too much attention. And then we wonder why the audience feels no real obligation to us.
Itโs a mistake. A small one that becomes a big one over time.
We donโt need to decide whoโs better. History will take care of that, and it usually does it without much regard for our opinions anyway. What we do need is to understand that when one of us โ especially in independent or parallel work โ breaks through, it doesnโt diminish the rest of us. It makes the ground more fertile. It tells the world that these kinds of films can still find their audience, that risk is still possible, that personal vision still matters.
Your success is not separate from mine. It helps create the conditions in which my next film, or someone elseโs, might also have a chance. When we refuse to celebrate each other, weโre not protecting our own space.,weโre shrinking it.
Cinema has always been fragile. It survives because people who care about it refuse to let it die quietly. That includes us. Especially us.
So celebrate the work when itโs good. Say it out loud. Mean it. Because the alternative isnโt strength. Itโs isolation. And isolation has never made anything stronger ,least of all the kind of cinema we claim to believe in.
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that one screenshot from Chiraiya is so disturbing to even see and mfers here are making memes on it with ghibli filters ??!!
i'd ask everyone here to stop engaging with them, they aint learning basic shit like consent on twitter when they couldnt learn that in their life