The utterance of this simple word or even the simplest mentioning of it in any respect brings to us at once the a huge world of glamour and an attempt to experiment with the human emotions and also to depict at the same time a better future, a noble future that will give the youth a future and old age a security.
From its inception in the late 90’s of the nineteenth century this has been utilized both as a medium of entertainment and a novel way of earning money. The earliest period being under the whims of the private or theatre owners had been the witness of the serious absence of any such through provoking subject. In India the earliest progenitors of the Cinema had been driven by the same mercantile concept though there were certain productions like Raja Harischandra by Dada Saheb Phalke, which spoke eloquently of the exalted influence of the myth and history on the Indian audience.
But with the dialectical changes happening in different parts of the world in the realm of international economic and political realm of affairs, the most prominent being the Bolshevik Revolution in the late years of the second decade of the twenty first century, the entire concept of cinema almost took a u-turn. The saga of profit that was so long in a suzerain position was somewhat changed yielding place to a new and rising consciousness of making films that directly spoke of the presence of people at large. The new cinematic language placed ‘we’ in the place of ‘me’ or ‘mine’. The awe inspiring cinemas of Sergei Eizenstein, the legendary Soviet filmmaker like ‘Battleship Potemkin’ or the ‘Strike’ spoke of a new sensation and consciousness influencing the aspiring intelligentsia of the entire world at the highest extent. Thus the cinema, which from the very beginning has been under the purview of profit orientation found a new way of associating the people through the effective application of the cinematic language. The creation of Pather Panchali (Song of the Road) by Satyajit Ray in 1955 for the first time presented a true picture of the Indian civilization clubbed with its traditional beliefs and changed the course of the direction of the Indian cinema forever.
