Attempts in creating awareness on various health problems are going on around the world but one good feature film would do the same job, eminent Psychiatrist and renowned Bollywood actor Mohan Agashe has said.
"A good film means it should make you start thinking once it ends on screen," Agashe, a Homi Bhabha Fellow said at the three-day conclave which concluded here yesterday. With a good film, the audience would think in a way which otherwise would not have been possible, he added.
"Surgery of education with anaesthetic effect of entertainment makes all the difference in making people think and do something bigger than what they otherwise would have," Agashe, who was selected as a Fellow in 1985 for Theatre and Therapy, said.
He said that the entertainment media has become a powerful media to bring about a change and it is for the students and youth to learn about audio-visual literacy, language of image and sound.
"Learning about language of sound and image are important for everyone especially in the management courses and it is not for making films alone if interested but also to protect themselves from filmmakers when needed," he said.
"Earlier we had the liberty to experience and imagine and be creative but with the information superhighways, our experience is pre-determined and no scope for imagining and thinking," he said.
"It is our duty to guide the youth through the jungle of information as they have more information than we had earlier," Agashe, who was among over 100 Homi Bhabha Fellows from all walks of life, gathered for the first time at the Tata Institute of fundamental Research.
As a part of Homi Bhabha centenary celebrations, the Homi Bhabha Fellowships' Council, established 40 years ago by Tata Trusts -- Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, JRD Tata Trust and Ratan Tata Trust -- in collaboration with Ford foundation, had organised a three-day Conclave for the first time bringing all the Fellows together for an intellectual interaction from November 20.
Another Homi Bhabha fellow S Ramani, also a computer wizard, said that today the world community has an opportunity to experience lectures given by some of the best teachers in various universities across the world through the newly introduced Web 2.0 for the world "student" community.
In the Web 2.0, thousands of hours of video materials with great quality pictures are available free and it is a kind of recognition of the best teachers in the world by a scientific community. Homi Bhabha Fellowships Council has been funding research projects in the areas of science, social science and the arts.
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