Could have been more encouraging…

By Divya Solgama(03 Feb 2012)
There was a time when films use to portray the social issues around us. The “Aam Aadmi” or a commoner was shown as sufferer, lover, angry young man, naïve, revenge taker, depressed, misguided and many other forms. We had actors like Raj Kapoor, Dilip Kumar, Manoj Kumar, Amol Palekar, Amitabh Bachchan, Anil Kapoor, Naseerudin Shah and many more enhancing the common man in all types of shades. But slowly the common man started disappearing from our silver screen and was reduced to some small budget films only. Similarly the makers too stopped making films on common man and ... » read more