(This article was originally published in the newspaper ‘THE HINDU’)
Art
is the visage or the display of human creative dexterity and mentality. Its
object is to give life an outline and optimism. All art is but the facsimile of
nature and the art of imitating someone or something classically in order to
entertain is mimicry. Mimicry, a requisite for entertainment on the stage or
screen has given a focus and façade to the life’s leisure.
Mimicking
the popular person’s personas cannot be deemed as character assassination. On
one perspective it is the creativity in different way and on the other a kind
of criticism in a constructive way. Creativity and criticism are a part of self
expression and mimicry is the synthesis of both and cannot be considered as an
art of aspersion.
Article
19(1) inscribed in the Indian constitution gives the right to self expression
and burlesque is a self expression and a right of performers who lampoon anyone
and everyone. Mimicker emulates all sorts of persons irrespective of their
occupation, position and prestige. Mostly they imitate politicians and film stars
by focusing on the negative phase and expressing it in comical and critical
way. The travesty elevates awareness and amusement in the audience and instead
of traumatizing the tranquility in the folks it spotlight on the verity and
variety. Then is the current fuss needed?
If
panegyric oration and outburst are entertained, why cannot there be reflective
realistic representation? Divulging the squalid certainty concerning the
celebrity will be odious. However, the mimicry epigones present them in a
convincing manner. We have to eulogize and encourage them in place of depriving
and denying. Let the nascent youngsters in the mimicry meadow boom in the
climate of redundancy. The whole world of art and heart should give a
substratum and strengthen their panache of imitation, imagination and
improvisation.
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