Comedy

Comedy is a professional entertainment consisting of jokes and satirical sketches, intended to make an audience laugh. The entertainment can be in the form a stage act, movie, text, pictorial or any other form. The intent is only to make the other person laugh and not to hurt the feeling of anyone. The comedy can range children specific to adult specific.

The evoluton of comedy that has taken place in our society is more clearly visible in our movies. Even though there is a huge debate going on among the so called intellectuals, the movies on average at best represent the inflated aspirations. The inflation is required so as to keep the audience in  awe and make them to want more. Yeh dil mange more type of the need is created in every movie goer and a cult of hero worship happens. Any movie unless it is overtly tilted towards sentimental or some social issue, will contain certain comic scenes. 

Movies generally tend to invoke as many of the eight bhavas (moods)-love, mirth(hasya), sorrow, anger, energy, terror, disgust, astonishment. But since movies are made to entertain people and cinema manuafcturers have found that comedy is one that can always bring the crowds. A good comedy can make the movie less disastrous. There is equal loyal following to great comedians as there are for the big and costly heros. Not to left behind, the big budget heros also want to do comedies, but since they cannot let go of thier ego the success rate is very less.

The simple acts which brought smile on the face of the audience some time ago are now no longer able to achieve the same, unless the acts are extremely creative. The so called ever green shows like charlie chaplin, tom&jerry, road runner show, etc can always be a stress relief. Knowing the potential of the comedy, many coprorations have launched channels dedicated to telecast comedy scenes in various regional languages. There are icons like Brahamanandam, Vadivelu, etc whose mere presence and facial expressions can bring a simle without their uttering a single word. But the heros who want to do the comedy usually endup doing overtly adult comedy with little freshness.

The characters like sardarji, santa-banta, rampa, and many others local and international, in the form short stories or one liners give enough humour dose and keep the people sane from excessive stress. But many people with eminence, intellectual prowess have begun to dissect the acts of comedy and lose the meaning and also the purpose of the act. When in a comedy show, we need to shut our intelligent brains and should become fools. The simple acts that we miss in our day to day life are only shown by those who observe keenly and giveus back what we miss using some ficitious characters.

If not for the humour, comedy in the movies or in other entertainment form the world would be more gloomy and dull. Of all the roits that can happen, Laughter roit is the best and always be part without your intelligent brains and egos. Park them in lockers and enjoy the shows.