Literature and News-Itemsboth are Likely to form Baseline for Cinema

A brainstorming panel discussion on 'have newspapers replaced literature as a source for cinema' concluded at 45th IFFI today. Most of the panelists opined that although a trend for picking up newspaper-headlines as raw-material for movies has emerged of late, yet the literature has not altogether vanished from the cinema. Initiating the discussion, senior film critic RatnottamaSenguptaput forth the common perception that cinema today was losing seriousness after it started borrowing less from the literature. She however termed the discussion as the first such interaction between the film critic circle on one hand and media as a whole on the other. She said, it's a paradox that film criticism, most of the times talks about actors and their lifestyle but remains silent on the hurdles, commercial viability and infrastructure available to the cinema.