গেল, গেল, গেল, সব গেল রে! বাপ-ঠাকুদ্দার বানানো ভিটে, কেউ রঙ করে! তাহলে আর ওই প্রাসাদোপম পুরোনো বাড়ির Vintage Value রইল কোথায়। এমন classic সম্পদ কেউ রঙ চাপিয়ে নষ্ট করে!
Mr. Rakib Rana, a learned professor from Bengal base working in the US with his astounding proceedings in the realm of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, has experimentally put some clips of the unforgettable classic movies of his favourite directors like Stayajit Ray, Rittwik Ghatak, Akira Kurosawa and Charles Spencer Chaplin keeping Ray in the frontline. Mr. Rana has endeavouerd to show that how AI can work as perfect as human mind in replicating black and white movies with colours, frame to frame. Mr. Rakib’s outstanding proclivity to Bengali movie classics has driven him to choose frames from the directors he loves the most. He never expected a boomerang of protests from the fundamentalists in his venture of using the movie clippings as mere samples of an experiment having no realtion to film making or anything related to films.
The fundamentalists who know less about the cult of ‘cinema’ and shout much are reacting like the allusion in the very beginning. Their thoughts are very puritan in nature. They do not protest when all time favourites like The Lion King and Sholey turn into 3D. However, they think that the doomsday has arrived when the BnW classics are artificially added pallor of colour just for the sake of experiment of something of other kind. Mr. Rana is never wrong with his premonition that a day will come when these classics will be turned into 3Ds.
Mr. Rana's experiment was never with the effort to succeed in finding ready formulae for transformation of the classics from BnW to colour. He was keen looking for some perfect sample to experiment on with his findings of AI which works with a prefect prototypicality of human mind. We have a notion that AI is not able to reach the levels of human perceptions and imagination. Mr. Rana with the use of these samples has proved the notion all wrong. He never proposed to challenge or dared overriding the eternal value of the classics in BnW as he believes that just adding colours and 3Ds to the classics can never tarnish neither the films in original nor the names of their directors. In fact, I believe, this conversion may attract many of the common youth who have no interest in the classics just because they are too classical, outdated and drab, badly lacking the vigour and vibrance of the modern-age movies.
The puritan fundamentalists are hard on their nostalgia with these movies rather than seeing what advent has been made in the realm of AI. Changing the visual medium of the movies is not the objective here. Moreover, they are failing to understand that experimenting on the basics never kills the basics. In turn, the basics are rejuvenated with a whole new spirit to explore the minds of the people to whom it was all unforeseen. Though little far-fetched, it is like Kishore Kumar singing Rabindrasangeet without following the strict protocol of notations as had been laid down by Rabindranath Tagore himself. Kishore Kumar's single album on Rabindrasangeet turned popular among the mass and still retains its popularity and more people, who have hardly any connection with the classic culture, from the base level had come to know about the full lyrics of the songs sung by him along with the knowledge that those were Rabindrasangeets. Kishore's album had hardly any effect on the veterans of Rabindrasangeet like Suchitra Mitra, Debabrata Biswas or Sagar Sen. Lately, various Bangla Bands and contemporary singers are trying their new compositions with Rabindrasangeets. Does that kill either Rabindranath and his creations in the minds of the people at large?
Thus, out-of-the-objective of Mr. Rana, even if the classics in BnW are transformed into Colours, what's the harm done if even some thousands of more people come to know about Ray and Ghatak and Chaplin and Kurosawa and take some interest in them! Does that make anyone insecure? If so, it is that very person who lacks the qualities to survive. Ray or Ghatak or Chaplin or Kurosawa et al never has this crises in them that their works may die too young just because a professor added AI colours to their films to show us all the future of robotics.
Thanks to you all who are about to kill Mr. Rana for this two-and-half-minute video he has created to show the world how marvellous is the AI, for making Ray, Ghatak, Chaplin and Kurosawa bringing back to life.
I believe most of them, who watch this clip shall revert back to the originals to see and discover or re-discover, what masterpieces those works had been and the Gen Y would come to know under whose shadows the world of cinema is running still and whom do the directors of modern cinema follow and salute, and without studying whom any course in film-making remains incomplete.
Watch the clip:
https://youtu.be/syifZ2Ry-tU
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