THE CONTENT WILL ALWAYS REMAIN KING FOR THE WHOLE GAMUT OF THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY!

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  • Since time immemorial, humankind has always remained keenly interested in investing in entertainment aspects of the time. As witnessed over generations and millennia, humankind has evolved tremendously in an organic manner, developing/initiating/ushering in an ingenious entertainment quotient that has always been welcomed with open arms. Of course, human ingenuity needs no further elaboration, and riding high on this inalienable aspect, we have built on our inherent quest for improvising our entertainment needs on hitherto unimaginable features. Dance, music, and various forms of performances have always been a part of human history that have only gained further prominence through welcome alterations over millennia.

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  • Performing arts, fine arts, and various forms of singing have metamorphosed into what we call the entertainment industry in the present times. As we are aware, the modern day is interspersed with diverse forms of entertainment that not only capture our attention through extremely innovative ideas but also keep evolving perpetually, offering consumers such a large bouquet of options that we are spoiled for choice. Looking around would reveal how even the conventional print, electronic, and now digital platforms have completely transformed themselves into such vivid entertainment-offering mediums. As consumers, we are not complaining one bit since the choice to choose what we wish is completely vested in us.

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  • What has not changed one bit over all these centuries is the content on offer. To captivate any audience, the content on offer must be not only premised on a fascinatingly engrossing storyline but also equally served by the chosen ones entrusted with the responsibility of justifying the character being essayed with conviction. The audience is smart enough to call out performances as nothing but a damp squib where the content lacks traction and convincing power, and hence miserably fails to sustain mediocrity. As the popular saying goes, art has no language equally applies to both performing and visual entities. Of late, humankind is more involved in visual content, with electronic, social, and OTT mediums becoming an inalienable part of our daily lives.

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  • The consumption patterns too have undergone unbelievable changes in the last decade or so, what with even the microblogging platforms offering instant entertainment options. However, our penchant for consuming entertainment on the big screen continues to retain supremacy despite the onslaught from innumerable OTT platforms with global boundaries obliterated on the back of the digital revolution. As such, movies on the big screen are much patronized, welcomed, and anticipated not only to soak in the unique experience offered by the medium but also to experience wholesomely in the dark auditorium, which the other platforms fail to offer. Thus, the onus is on content producers to ensure they offer us wholesome entertainment perennially.