If Hindi films wish to be referred to as a medium of art then the role of film critics is indispensable. The fact of the matter is that most films made today are below average and hardly warrant the time and energy spent on them. In fact I believe Indian critics need to be more scathing. But for that they need to be fantastic writers with a rich sense of irony and intellect. Here's an excert from a article by the British critic A.A.Gill. People this is what actual criticism should be like - " The play was the thing %u2013 a desperate, unbelievable, dramatically inert bit of third-degree embarrassment; secondhand agitprop cliché that would have shamed a drama-GCSE improv class. Not a single word or emotion or reaction was honest or believable or real. Again, I%u2019m speechless with admiration for the Tristram who has been paid money, fed lunch and given a chair that goes up and down and has such insouciant confidence in the idiocy of his audience that he allowed this to be broadcast. And not just cast, but cast with good actors who had agents who suffered the same effortless belief and said: "Do it. Who cares? It%u2019s cash." Finally, and most awe-inspiringly, that someone sat down at a keyboard, tapped away and made The Dinner Party %u2013 a crippling, dribbling, mewling homunculus of plagiarism. And, having done it, they didn't turn white and book themselves into an ashram. They said: "This is cool. I'll show it to the grown-ups", and pressed Send. The next time this writer sees his or he
