The Concept of the Transactional Cinema
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The Concept of the Transactional Cinema
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Cinema in Asia20181/20/2018
Cinema in Asia 1Transnational Indian dramaTransnational cinema is a developing theory in the film studies of India that incorporates a variety of theories that are related to the effects of the globalization upon the economic and cultural aspects of the film. The concept of the transactional cinema shows how the Indian cinema is able to bring the changes in the films from the various cultures since the implementation of the globalization (Higbee & Lim, 2010). There are a numerous number of movies in which the concept of transnational is clearly visible and these movies include ‘My name is Khan’, ‘Bride and Prejudice’ and many others. The beginning of the Indian cinema was done by the Dadasaheb Phalke in the year 1913 with theintroduction of the first ever full-length feature film named as ‘Raja Harishchandra’, who is also known as the father of the Indian cinema. Dadasaheb was not only the producer of the film but was writer, director, editor, cameraman, make-up artists and the art director. The movie was also screened in London in the year 1914 (Grant, 2017). Later Dadasaheb supervised and managed the production of twenty-three films from the year 1913 to 1918. The early growth of the Indian Film Industry was not rapid as compared to the Hollywood. The word of Bollywood is a play on Hollywood with the B that comes from Bombay (currently known as Mumbai), the center of the film world. Later on, many people contributed to bringing new movies in India and these people get the inspiration of film from the culture of the country (Souza, 2014). The culture of India is diverse that is providing a large dose of ethnicity to the Bollywood nowadays. Most of the filmmakers are getting the inspiration from the various communities, cultures and combining culture in an interesting picture on the silver screen. Taran Adarsh sharedthe opinion that the cultures and ethnicity are importantly included in the course of the
Cinema in Asia 2filmmaking in India (Mankermi, 2013). Bollywood is well-known for the full of colorful people who are willing to explore the cultures and represent it.For instance: - Bride and prejudice is a film that is produced by the Gurinder Chadha’s. The movie is inspired by the Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice that emphasis on the difference between an American idea of weddings and marriage along with that an Indian idea of the marriage and weddings. This movie reflects the culture of the marriage and weddings with the fact that there is the difference in the rituals and weddings of India and America. The idea of the marriage is adopted with the culture of India. This culture of an Indian wedding is represented in numerous numbers of films in Bollywood but this is the film in which the filmmaker has tried to reflect the transnational Indian drama (Oliete-Aldea, 2012). Similarly, in another movie, my name is Khan; there is on the role of the Hindu women that reflects the culture and drama of India. The movie shows the collaboration of two religions Hindu and Muslim, in which a boy belongs to the Muslim cast. In one of the scenes of the movie,they were praying according to their religion. So, the filmmaker is reflecting the diverse culture in the movie ‘My name is Khan’ (GlobalVoices, 2010). The filmmakers of Indian can’t make the movie without the drama so the movie includes the drama which is reflected in the form of performance. Drama is the particular mode of fiction thatis represented in the performance. The drama and theatre in India are as old as the dance and music. In the early times, the drama was recognized as Natya and Nautanki. In the recent times, the filmmakers present the people related to the art festivals and cultural functions. There are many people in India who are influenced by the modern theatre rather than the classical theatre. For people who like to do drama, no place is better than film industry which is commonly knownas Bollywood. Drama in Hindi movies can focus on the life of the characters and on different
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