Violence in films is exaggerated: Victor Bnnerjee

Actor-director Victor Banerjee, one of the members of the jury at the ongoing 44th International Film Festival of India, feels that the violence that is shown in Bollywood films are highly exaggerated.
"No one can universally accept violence as good or bad. All violence may not be wrong. There may be a fundamental truth to it. I also feel entertainment and violence are exaggerated in films," Banerjee said.
The interactive session also saw the participation of the other jury members like Goran Paskaljevic, Atiq Rahimi, Claire Denis, Prasanna Vithanage and IFFI director Shankar Mohan.
"The beauty of filmmaking is to speak of the good and bad of your society and not criticize others. You have to be courageous to identify what is right or wrong. When I make a film, I first understand the issues my society is facing and how well I can portray it visually to create good content," Paskaljevic said.

French-Afghan director and writer Rahimi, whose latest film 'The Patience Stone' opened the Soul of Asia section at the ongoing festival, said that it is literature and not violence in Afganistan that inspires his films.
"For me, I find literature to be a good medium to talk about my own country, religion and company. We don't have big producers to finance us but yet, we try to do something with the existing mediums. Also, 95 per cent of the people are illiterate and through cinema, we try to educate them and make them more aware of society, values, love and respect," Rahimi said.

On making films on human values and rights, French writer-director Claire Denis said, "For some reason, I have always been interested in the stories of people who are exiled and who are deprived of rights. My main motive to make a film is to keep the society in mind and the hospitality adhered.