Petty tips for film-making

Now,I take my position as a normal cine-goer. A not-so-regular one at that. I tried to do some little analysis of films myself. of late, I conscioulsy started observing myself on how i responded to the sequence of events of a cinema . Here are excerpts.
Appreciation of any kind of art stems from the viewers' ability to interpret a seemingly complicated piece of art, which inturn gives him appreciation of his own genius . Then he thinks of the artist's genius on how the artist could come up with such a thing. And then comes appreciation to the artist. This concerns arts like painting, photography, handi-craft etc. where your primary goal is to communicate with the viewer( you point your view of life and how beautifu things look to you). And how interesting you make it for the viewer give a measure of merit in the piece of art.

Now to cinema. Golden rule for mediocre commercial films. Never disappoint the viewer. In the sense, do not show radical things to orthodox viewers who are immune to change. Depict a society which the viewer wants to see. And then play around with the story.
For other mainstream films, I have found that these things add. One of the strongest emotions that can be so easily created is nostalgia. And the cumilative effect of that is what the viewer has when he leaves the cinema. Associate the viewer with the characters. Make them identifiable. Generate familiarity with a few particular locations or background tunes. Like what Roobaroo and the fort do at the very end of RDB.
Let the film be informative. Let it have the same old story on strong new grounds. Okkadunnadu, Aithe are examples as such . Stress on societal values and unexpressed love between companions(Like how each person in a family has a soft corner for another even though they dont express it). As I have already said , make the plot open , obscure and complicated.Let the viewer decide the angle in which he wants to view the film. Let the viewer have something to understand even after the film is up. Now, when he gets over the unexplained things , he is convinced about his own genius and then he thinks of how beautifully the director has shown the essentials of the movie without compromising on anything that he wished to convey. The bottomline is that, you have something to say, and you dont want to spoon-feed it to the viewer. Just give him only quintessential things and let him develop the rest. Like what Fight-club , Matrix and other movies did. It is easy to tell the story just the way you conceived, but it is really difficult to complicate it, and still convey the message.

The next time you go to a film,notice the different kinds of emotions you go through and just see what in the story drove the emotion, and you will be clear on what basic grounds each scene in the story stands . I shall keep updating this column as and when I have new things to say. Thank-you for bearing with me.