Farhan Akhtar, whether he likes it or not, is a bookmark in Bollywood's Bible of Movie Making, Themes and Techniques.When he burst into the ketchup and kohl littered landscape of our Planet Bollywood, he chose to tell us the colorful and emotional transition from teenage to life as we know it, with three different perspectives to life.
It could have been made in the classic mould of Bollywood pot-boilers, but he chose to do it, with more strings attached to the 'Life as we see around', and that gave a fresh impetus to the staid old Bollywood Locomotive, that was more or less chugging at a bored,disinterested pace till then.
It was his first movie. And it was a fresh idea.
And it retained its freshness and thereby its individuality when it reached the Cinemas.
The film went on to win critical acclaim, winning that year's National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi.It also gave confidence to scores of young film makers, with fantastic little creative concepts to conceive their dreams in celluloid in Bollywood.
Outrageous, out-of-the-box and sometimes outright hilarious, some hit the box-office, made people sit up and notice and some, regardless of the quality and uniqueness sputtered at the Box-Office.
But, that is an entirely different discussion altogether.
This new influx of talent also started a movement in Bollywood that is now snowballing with a momentum that has never been witnessed in Indian Cinema before.
It can be termed, for convenience, the Invasion of Rocking ideas and its time has come.
Take a look at the slew of those 'Fresh Movies' that has come post DCH.
Each of them, regardless of their commercial faring, is a little nail, firmly hammered down the trite coffin of mindless fare, which has been timelessly dished out from the Big Wigs, for public consumption.
Rang de basanti, Khosla ka Ghosla, Hazaaron Kwaishein Aisi, Bheja Fry, Cheeni Kum each different from the other like chalk and cheese, but each managed to find its 'Needing' audience.
And this Friday, its the time of ROCK ON.
The initial drawings are good, but the first week would be judgmental in its verdict on the commercial faring at the Box-Office.
The point is this.
That dividing, thick and bold line between commercial and art cinema has faded.
There have been more variety in the subjects of mainstream commercial fare in the past 7 years than the past 97 years put together.
Technology has helped, no doubt.
But, to think, you still need an organic, creative brain. That is becoming a watershed for our Indian moviescape.
Interesting, when you think about it - It is almost 100 years since Raja Harishchandra graced our Silver Screen in meaningful mime. 100 years for Spring to bless Bollywood.
The Refreshing Season of unbridled creativity is here, at last.
Maybe, Farhan Akhtar was the first Sparrow.
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