Films, fiction, art - Creatives debate method at Lit Festival

Film producers need to focus on creating more colourful and interesting cinema, award-winning novelist-musician Amit Chaudhuri has said.
"From the moment cinema moved from black in white to colour, it is loosing something and producers need to rethink on how they can use colours in such an interesting way that it gives more (to the viewers)," Chaudhuri said at a Jaipur Literature Festival session today.
Despite being shot in black and white, the silent "Charlie Chaplin" was much interesting said the author who was on a panel to discuss "Clearing a Space: Between Fact and Fiction" on third day of the crowded festival in the Pink city.

Chaudhuri, a Sahitya Akademi Award recipient, cited the example of Indian classical dance and western drama, where the sets, lighting and background contributed to bringing the art forms closer to reality.
Journalist and novelist Raj Kamal Jha, meanwhile talked about the difference between fact and fiction.
"Fiction is what is inside and fact is what is outside," Jha said adding that in a fast paced technologically-driven world the only place which does not prevent entry by all and sundry was "one's inside."

The veteran scribe said every moment in the newsroom came up with a new story. "In newsroom, things are fiction until they are shown to be a fact," he said.

Replying to a question from the audience at the end of the session, Chaudhuri said that he necessarily did not advocate for classic minimalism in modern contemporary art.
Meanwhile in another session "Selfie: The Art of Memoir," acclaimed authors spoke about the differences between a memoir and a biography.
"Autobiography is completely your thing, but the memoir could be an interaction with yourself or a beautiful experience worth remembering and later writing it," Basharat Peer, author of "Curfewed Night," said.
Noted writer Mark Gevisser said how as a journalist he had so much to write that could be classified as a memoir because they were mostly based on the experience and interactions with people around him.

"The best way to tell a story is to put yourself to others shoulders," he said.
Gevisser also highlighted the differences between journaling, an automatic kind of writing and autobiography, which was more proper.
Anchee Min, another writer on the panel, suggested jotting down interesting experiences.