Dear JoeGoaUk, It is really good to read your reconsidered perspective. This is truly the way to do things. Earlier, I wanted to say something but held off. You note now allows me to put up a few points.
We have to develop better forms of interaction. No videographer/photographer can simply walk in and shoot. A procedure has to be set up—this could be contacting the organisers and with the permission of the director. In such cases the cameramen are given a specific spot. They are escorted to a seat if at all or led to a place, which the director has vetted earlier of course making sire that the work will be seen in good light (both meanings). The camera does not obstruct the audience, including even in such cases as a non-paying audience. Some cases are different, and one would make it a point to know that. The INTEGRITY of the performance has to be maintained. OR, they ARE ONLY allowed to shoot a dress rehearsal. Period. No arguments. No creativity jive and all that. Also, no one should consider telling anyone to stop when one is irate for valid reasons, including perhaps for a play gone poorly. His or her world is falling apart AROUND HIM, and this MEDIA PERSON is the catalyst causing the unsettling. I have noticed this too often in India. This is a form of emasculation that our whole nation thrives in. There are parallels to this in other areas. All that convenient, "Zalean te zalem, atan kit(em) korya. Sodd tem. Asundi." The worst is "maguir pouvya." Also, certain words should never even be allowed to creep into our lexicon in phrasing an incident, since they distort sensibilities and convey an inappropriate sense of what happened. In those cases apologies must be made to the individual. Our folks tend to persist towards uncouth behavior, and this will continue in simultaneity with the realization as it slowly dawns upon them, that there is a certain elegance of the spirit in graciousness--at which point things will begin changing. One cannot bang sense into an entire collective unconscious overnight as names of streets are changed overnight, with the attendant expectation that people will let go of their pasts, with their joys and anguishes. Having said that there are times we say things, as in when I for instance, appear harsh on Goanet. Those case are specific and never churlish, or banal, but strive to address certain malaise's in our midst in no uncertain terms. venantius > > From: JoeGoaUk <[email protected]> > Subject: [Goanet] Mario Menezes at Khell Tiatr Festival created a huge > hungama > > Thanks FN, > > i agree with you. > ? > Media etc should stay away from?such things?particularly when they know > 'they don't like it'. And hence I had also coppied to goaJourno > ? > About the 'Flop tiatr' it is a talk of the town, I guess he himself > admitted? by 'abandoning it' half way. I guess, I ?brought it up here at > wrong time (as a part of my resentment over his behaviour?), which was > wrong. > ? > Note: Cyberspace or net was not the issue he raised at the time, he was > more specific on local media or TV channel and?infact,?he?mentioned HCN > showing?his tiatr footage?as part of musical show. > However, media could mean also cyberspace > ? > The media man was also partly to be blamed. > He kept on shooting despite the fact he was approached twice by MM's > messenger requesting him to stop > ? > thanks again > ? > [email protected] >
