The Great Train Robbery merged in fiction and nonfiction

The Great Train Robbery merged in fiction and nonfiction

Any form of art is a replication of reality. Any artist get inspiration from real life to mimic the experience through some medium and that is art. As poetry is considered the creative creation of poet and his emotions some where it deals with real life experiences and aspirations. Novel is a literary form which opens a different platform for human life and experiences. Cinema came is considered to be very young form of art which came in to existence just 100 years ago. A Russian legendary film director Andreai Tarkavosky said long back, “Cinema is a reflection of life.”

Cinema is an art from which amalgamate all other forms of art right from poetry, literature, sculpture, music, drama and graphics. This particular form has been a powerful medium. It started 19^th Century and proved its power by invading Russian government and making a way for Communism.  Adolf Hitlar already used it during Second World War for his own agenda. Many film makers have made films on famous novels, famous personalities and social incidences. Film has made a great impact on humankind. Today we all humans are connected with only one language which is not bound by any border of country or state. It is the language of Cinema. It is always wonderful way to watch a film and analysis the social change. 

Special26 has been a successful film. This film is based on a real life incidence of 1986, a year of no mobile and internet. We vehemently notice this fact. We also see the neatly crated plan of robbery and their style of execution. Even today this case is pending. Last week police have caught thugs. Who has confessed, of their inspiration out of film ‘Special26’. The plan they have made and executed it. Certainly this is an unfortunate incidence. This should not have taken place and we are not the only country where this happens.

‘The Great Train Robbery’ 1903 very famous silent film it became noticeable for its use of cross cut of editing. Later many films have been made like that. In 1960 an incidence of Train Robbery took place in United Kingdom, where a train was traveling from UK to France. Five people were the culprits Ronnie Biggs who was one of them died very recently. In 1963 US made color film of this substance by the name of ‘The Great Train Robbery’. Novel on this got published in 1975 by Micheal Crichton. He wrote this novel on the incidence of 1805 robbery.

Train Robbery has been a part of classical plot in Bollywood. We can see some of the glaring examples like Sholey, Tees Maar Khan, Dhoom, Race and many more.

Films do not encourage crimes. Do not built criminals it is the audience who not only watch films they live it. This is high time to realize, Film is a powerful medium, and it has to be used judiciously. It helps records history and not it is proved that it is even shaping literature. All literary critis should expand their horizons by clinging films as a part of ‘art form’.