But the business of cinema is being seriously eroded by digital technology and the Internet. Popular cinema and democracyThe time has come to take a cold look at issues behind the impending doom. It has now been proven that the best popular films emerge only from democracies. Second, the film form was inscribed within the sacrosanct tenets of a fixed format and a finite duration. Cinema is waiting to tear out of these confines of a fixed space and rigid duration.

Source: The Hindu April 02, 2017 20:48 UTC