Read the extract carefully and answer the questions given below :
After all we do passes the primary tools film making. The complaint of the technicians not withstanding, mechanical devices such as the crane shot and the process shot are useful, but by no means indispensable. Infact, what tools we have been used on occasion with real intelligence. What our cinema needs above everything else is a style, an idiom, a sort of iconography of cinema, which would be uniquely and recognisably Indians.
After all we do passes the primary tools film making. The complaint of the technicians not withstanding, mechanical devices such as the crane shot and the process shot are useful, but by no means indispensable. Infact, what tools we have been used on occasion with real intelligence. What our cinema needs above everything else is a style, an idiom, a sort of iconography of cinema, which would be uniquely and recognisably Indians.
It is only in a drastic simplification of style and content that hope for the Indian cinema resides. At present, it would appear that nearly all the prevailing practices go against such as simplification.
(i) Name the topic and the author.
(ii) What does Indian cinema need?
(iii) What is the type of our films?
(iv) What type of material does Indian cinema need?
(v) What do you mean by simplification?
