Coup On Literature – 10 [Literacy and ideology]

Similar to other languages in India, in world, my mother tongue Telugu had risen up to high peaks in terms of quality and quantity as well as in terms of script and ideas. It is flourished with the beauty of both literacy and ideology. There were thrillful and magical talents in narrations, in description, in story making and in forming of prose & poetry with grammar. There was literal glamour. With prosody also there was melody. So large poems like Vikata Kavi i.e. words which are similar from A to Z and Z to A. there were so many symmetry and variety in our literature like అనురాగం అనురాగం నేనాలపిస్తా that means I’ll sing a tune of love. Here first ‘Anuragam’ means love, next Anuragam means tune. Like that so many countless lyrics.

On this background in certain 70’s & 80’s movies of Telugu had shown that the scarcity of literature and talents. I give you two examples.

In one movie Kokilamma, hero sang as

“వినిపించనా వినిపించనా నీకో సంగీతం
నీకోసం గీతం”

Means shall I sing, for you a melody

For you a song.

Neko Sangetham means for you a melody i.e. music

Nekosam Geetham means for you a song.

It is good presentation okay. But for this much bit, the director presented non-stop clapping for more than 1 minute of 2 minutes song is not okay. That shows the poverty of feelings i.e. deficiency of talents.

Another movie ‘Swathi Kiranam’, There the actress shown ecstasy when the hero and other roles were singing where as nobody in the theatre could experience such quality in those songs. That was the fact. Those songs not got popularity even among public. Such was the strategy to kill the quality of talents gradually. The directors and artists might deceive like that. It was a coup, especially spying coup in India. By killing the talents, discouraging the artists, it is easy to destroy a Nation. In such coup, how many souls got suffered, we can’t determine now. It is helpless to count it.

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