A. “Stupidity is a new Intelligence”
1. One of the toughest challenges in any VFX/CGI movie is managing shadows. Hence most VFX scenes are night scenes (Jurassic Park). Wars in ancient times were prohibited at night. So no great war movie can be made on VFX.
Knowing what to do is smartness; knowing what not to do is wisdom; doing what not to do to appear smart is stupidity!
B. “Human Attention Span is Less than Goldfish”
Hence a movie has to be 480 tik tok 15s scenes attached together. Nana Patekar recites poetry for Madhuri in Wajood for 4 minutes. But such things can’t be shared in Whatsapp status and Shorts and Reels.
All scenes of Adipurush are Shorts and Reels and Status compatible.
C. “Billion Dollar Dream,” “VC Money,” “Cash Burn”
Ram Rajya, a 1943 movie made in ₹5L made ₹60L, 12x. So for ₹8,000 Cr, we need to make a movie on a budget ₹666 Cr. Finally, no one is talking about Cred, Zomato, or Byjus.
D. “Look at What Works Best in the West and Apply Steve Job’s Formula The Great Artist Steals,”
In India, founders had to deeply study “door dash,” and “Instacart,” to build an “Empire of Indian B2B Startups.” Same way Adipurush makers had to invest in Netflix and deeply watch Planet of Apes, Ironman, and other Marvel movies.
E. Indian Tech Space is Powered by GitHub
Over 90% of the fresh coders rip GitHub(up to 10 years one is fresher like 10 years companies are loss-making startups).
Same way, Adipurush makers lifted the Assets from Free games, and existing VFX movies. Oh, copy and paste the same Birds, monkeys, and Asurs(or deformed figures!)
F. Great Resume, Past Success= Great Money; Team Matters, Ok?
Adipurush is the classic story of overpaid “experienced” corporate IIT and IIM pulls into the startups. Spielberg walked on four for hours to visualize how children will view Jurassic Perk. But Bahubali’s prep is enough for Adipurush ok?
G. Don’t Worry Reading and Researching, Take Cocaine, and Imagine
No warrior in history has broken a weapon. How Lord Rama, the Purushottam could break a Bow? It took me 6 months to get the answer to this simple question while writing “Intimacy Laws for Men”, where Lord Rama is in 2.5 pages.
But Adipurush is epic.
Iron=> for the era before the Bronze age.
Stones=>for the era when India used bricks.
Viman=>(No existing model found?)
H. Literature and Conversation is a Thing of the Past
People today are more interested to talk back than conversing. Everyone simply waits for their turn to reply to appear more intelligent. No multi-conversation and nonliterary language, how a movie could portray society better?
I. Lazy Amygdala Aggressive Brains
Today a large part of society uses only the almond size amygdala in their coconut size brain which is a fight-flight-or freeze reaction. Hence characters only react, are feelings based, no emotions, no expressions.
Final Message of Adipurush:
VC money for Stupidity Thrills, but Stupidity eventually Kills.
J. More Education(Indians love free stuff!)
Adipurush has reflected everything about today’s society
1) Neuro Science: Reduced prefrontal cortex and increased Amygdala.
2) Social Problem: Loneliness! See Iron-Rava doesn’t have any ministers even being the king.
3) Fear and Fantasy: Most are afraid today, and to escape from reality people build a fantasy world. Porn substitutes for sex, and Video games for contact sports. Same way Adipurush depicts Fantasy Asurs, Fantasy Lanka, and so on.
4) Wisdom Missing: The movie has not had many older citizens, and no wisdom, a perfect depiction of our youth of today.
5) Jobloss: There are only 15 odd actors, in a Mythological epic, which could have to recruit hundreds of actors. See job loss?
6) Technology Searching for a problem.
7) Lack of preparation.
8) Impulsive rather than impressive.
9) Grandiosity over Greatness.
10) Blame others for one’s stupidity: Make something extraordinarily away from reality, a bad product, and then blame customers, for their lack of maturity.
11) Moonlighting(Multiple jobs) at the same time: Make a game, 3D movie, VFX etc, in different languages at the same time.
12) Culture is a thing of the past: No need to touch the feet of elders.
Adipurush is not a movie, it is an idea that came just in time.
K. How I found a Startup in Adipurush and used the VC technique to mine the learnings
we are startup people. If makers could find a Ramayana in Adipurush, then we are more capable of finding a startup in Adipurush, or Adipurush in a startup.
And because education is heavily loaded towards startups and VCs have taught us to always judge a Technology Startup by its PPT and opportunity from the Excel porn rather than the business. Some recent pundit VCs are a step ahead; as per them, any startup can be judged by the elevator pitch.
So, I took the theory, watched posters, and learned. VCs also say, always do due diligence, so I watched the reels where the entire movie was found.
Dr. Malpani taught us to judge the business based on if the business is delighting the customers.
Taking all this into consideration, and watching the public pitching of the founders, I got educated and decided not to invest in the startup.
But as EduTech is hot, I invested in AdiEdu and tried to add some value.
I don’t care about Dharma or Karma, or Religion. The startup is our religion, business is Karma, innovation is dharma. Adipurush is a good glorified SoftBank-backed startup that tried to exit through IPS(Initial public show), but as usual, like IPOs subscription fell flat on the third day. 🙊
L. The Philosophy of Why Adipurush Failed
We love philosophy. Just because this is a sarcastic post doesn’t mean that we won’t have a serious philosophical dissection of the fail of Adipurush!
Anything that is made for the purpose of profiteering at the expanse of sanity, with the goal to appear smarter, or with the sole goal to make money, without any care for serving will meet the same fate. That is the way the world was, is, and always will be.
British empire once spread across the world and today they are suffering from Obesity, and stagnant growth because they did not focus on serving, but rather profiteering. Roman Empire met the same fate, and so did the conquest of Alexender.
Anyone or any entity(business or organization) that focuses on the self and benefit of the self, profit of the self will meet the same fate. ALWAYS. Adipurush was no different.
When we further dig beneath the profiteering as the purpose, we get to understand deeper reasons of why the movie was a disaster.
Purpose!! Ramayan, Bhagwat Geeta, Mahabharata, and Old Testament are some of the books with extraordinary wisdom.
To acquire wisdom, one has to live a life of struggle and suffering and solve big problems to get the philosophy of life and make sense of wisdom.
One with wisdom then gets a purpose to share the learning with others. Just to find the relevance of the Bow, the eye color of Rama, the significance of the places the trio walked through, the significance of 14 years, the significance of the 10 heads of Ravana, one needs to spend almost 14 years through the dark and forest of the life.
That is why, when philosophy is converted to a story, and the story is perceived as a money-making opportunity, the brain doesn’t attach any emotions, because the brain hasn’t understood the philosophy itself. No one can be passionate about what they are doing if that doesn’t have the component of helping others in an area where he/she has struggled and thus learned.
