Stereotyping - as we know it..!

Everyone will face a bad phase where actually everything is messed up. Nothing is permanent in this world. but change .but this rule applies to all fields of life? Not really. Yes, changes do take place with the passing time, but certain things remain constant no matter what .one such thing is stereotyping in films we see...yes STEREOTYPING.

I would say Films typically stereotype us like In the present generation the medium " Films" play a major role in our characterization and behavior.

If a protagonist is with beard na He's considered rugged, arrogant, broken etc..blah blah. In the same, if a protagonist is a clean shave with proper dressing means he's loyal, goodhearted blah blah.

Like these film thought us how to dress and look indeed of our natural way of dressing. Like it stereotyped us basically on how we wanna show us to others.

Characters above in the picture is an example of how Looks and Dressings stereotyped us indirectly. If Jeeva from katradhu Tamil is with long Beard and broken glasses and with a kurta na we tend to understand that he's mentally ill and dangerous to normal human beings. But whereas Director Myskin given a character "Angulimala" in his film Psycho with neat and clean gentlemen look, yet with mental illness and psychopathic. Can we consider Clean shave as a gentlemen material or a psychedelic?

But the actual problem the characters undergo in films is not even connected to today's youngsters in today's generation.

Speaking on Arjun Reddy, growing a good beard wouldn't portray someone really broken. What if someone couldn't grow a beard and also yet broken. Will, this society considers him broken.?

What am trying to say is The character may undergo a different situation or a phase but we people doing those portrayals ourselves to show us like them. But it's actually not. Like the same, the Protagonist is also come up with a good looking, neatly dressed, clean-shaven look. Do we really follow them? The creators of those characters changes their pattern of characters in their upcoming films , but we are the one who stuck by stereotyped by the past films and still hang on with it.

The happy phase after bad ones are beautifully conveyed through these lyrics by Vairamuthu in the song

"Endha pakkam" in Dharmadhurai

" எப்போதுமே இன்பம்

என்றால் முன்னேற்றமேது

எப்போதுமே பகலாய் போனால்

வெப்பம் தாங்காதே

மனசை சலவை

செய்ய ஒரு கண்ணீர் நதிதான்

உண்டு உன் உயிரை சலவை செய்ய

ஒரு காதல் நதி உண்டு

 உன் சுவாசப்பையை மாற்று

அதில் சுத்தக்காற்றை ஏற்று

நீ இன்னோா் உயிாில் இன்னோரு

பெயாில் வாழ்ந்துவிடு…… ஓ… ".

This is what Director Ram trying to convey in an Interview, the Film medium totally stereotyped the people in the society indeed of their actual environment. "FILMS SHOULD BE A LEARNING MATERIAL OF AN ART " It shouldn't be a medium which stereotypes us or we shouldn't get stereotyped.