"Ultimately every performance for an audience is made with a intention that the audience should like it. If an audience does not like a performance, then the performance is not a good public performance".
This was said by I.
However I know that there are people who will disagree.
Imagine a test Match (Cricket) where a batsman bats all day in a painfully slow manner - which bores the crowd to death, but ensures his team has a good score on board and hence a good chance to win.
I have to agree that its not just the masses who can judge a good performance. If that is the case everything will be a herd mentality and originality/creativity will be lost.
For every Dabaang, or Ready is not the best film made but it works. Then there are films like Laashak which critics love but it is not a hit.
The revised statement here is thus that "while a performer is free to perform the way he/she wants, the ultimate aim of the performance is to win (game / critics approval) in the bigger picture and also gain popularity of the masses (if possible) while doing do.
This conversation would not have been possible with out the fabulous Veena performance I heard one night (sarcastic) which was so note worthy (that it actually played one note for two hours), that it made me go to sleep. May be that raaga was Raaga nirdra.
That apart I feel that every performer can perform the way he/she likes in private. But in a public performance, it is a public performance - shouldn't they like it.
This was said by I.
However I know that there are people who will disagree.
Imagine a test Match (Cricket) where a batsman bats all day in a painfully slow manner - which bores the crowd to death, but ensures his team has a good score on board and hence a good chance to win.
I have to agree that its not just the masses who can judge a good performance. If that is the case everything will be a herd mentality and originality/creativity will be lost.
For every Dabaang, or Ready is not the best film made but it works. Then there are films like Laashak which critics love but it is not a hit.
The revised statement here is thus that "while a performer is free to perform the way he/she wants, the ultimate aim of the performance is to win (game / critics approval) in the bigger picture and also gain popularity of the masses (if possible) while doing do.
This conversation would not have been possible with out the fabulous Veena performance I heard one night (sarcastic) which was so note worthy (that it actually played one note for two hours), that it made me go to sleep. May be that raaga was Raaga nirdra.
That apart I feel that every performer can perform the way he/she likes in private. But in a public performance, it is a public performance - shouldn't they like it.
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