#TheDailyToast: Raising FTII case in court
The court shall rise.
Already risen sir.
Not Chaitanya Tamhane's Court. The other one.
Which other one milord?
The court of the people. You know, the film heads, the junkies, the points of view holders, outragers. Them.
I heard one of them say they are rethinking Gajendra Chauhan's appointment as the FTII director.
Rethinking how? And why?
You know, because Court has gone for the Oscars, obviously right wing works.
They do know that the FTII director has nothing to do with an Oscar selection right?
Yes. One should hope so.
They also know that Court is not a right wing film, right? It's a regional film. And everything that is regional is not right wing, right?
So what, sir, like all the stars in the galaxy are interconnected, so also, one director is connected to another. All connected.
Are you kidding me with this theory? What are you smoking?
Recently visited FTII sir, some good stuff there.
Ah, ok. Irrelevant. So now where do we stand on this? Do we need more protests?
Of course sir, protests must never cease. Sign of all vibrancy is protest.
What exactly are you protesting at this point?
Good films are not being allowed to be made.
By whom? All the students who ought to be making them are protesting and all the filmmakers busy not being FTII director are making good films.
Irrelevant sir. The point is, in an absolute state of affairs, great films are being obstructed.
By Gajendra Chauhan?
Yes sir. By him. And Pahlaj Nihalani.
In which court of classroom or law do those two work together?
Sir, galaxy, stars, interconnectedness... You're just not on the metaphor are you?
Oh yes. Then why isn't the film world in protest against Nihalani? I haven't seen petitions and sit outs.
It's complicated sir.
Complicated how?
They want approvals sir. They don't want to hold up their releases.
Ok. But they're perfectly fine with students holding up FTII because it doesn't damage their profits?
Correct sir. But I would use "productions" instead of "profits".
Sure. Also, let's be clear, apart from Kamal Swaroop, nobody is really making a life-altering political film that they're about to go fighting for.
But they also fought sir. The good fight.
Really? For which film?
Nihlani is a scoundrel I say.
More films will be joining that list. They are sure of it.
Which one? Is it being made?
The one that hasn't been made yet and isn't going to be released. But it isn't made yet because they know it isn't going to be released sir.
They know this from experience of not having made it yet in anticipation of protesting not releasing it?
That is correct, sir.
So the students who are protesting the FTII who are going to grow up to be our future filmmakers, as sure as ugly ducklings are going to be swans, are protesting the opportunity to not make films they may then not protest the non-release of?
Absolutely, sir. Now you're getting it. Interconnectedness. You are fit to be a filmmaker sir. What intellect. What protest worthy reasoning.
Order order.