BURLESQUE Suvidutt M. S.

(This article was originally published in the national newspaper THE HINDU) Art is the visage or the display of human creative dexterity and mentality. Its object is to give life an outline and optimism. All art is but the facsimile of nature and the art of imitating someone or something classically in order to entertain is mimicry. Mimicry, a requisite for entertainment on the stage or screen has given a focus and faade to the lifes leisure. Mimicking the popular persons personas cannot be deemed as character assassination. On one perspective it is the creativity in different way and on the other a kind of criticism in a constructive way. Creativity and criticism are a part of self expression and mimicry is the synthesis of both and cannot be considered as an art of aspersion. Article 19(1) inscribed in the Indian constitution gives the right to self expression and burlesque is a self expression and a right of performers who lampoon anyone and everyone. Mimicker emulates all sorts of persons irrespective of their occupation, position and prestige. Mostly they imitate politicians and film stars by focusing on the negative phase and expressing it in comical and critical way. The travesty elevates awareness and amusement in the audience and instead of traumatizing the tranquility in the folks it spotlight on the verity and variety. Then is the current fuss needed? If panegyric oration and outburst are entertained, why cannot there be reflective realistic representation? Divulging the squalid certainty concerning the celebrity will be odious. However, the mimicry epigones present them in a convincing manner. We have to eulogize and encourage them in place of depriving and denying. Let the nascent youngsters in the mimicry meadow boom in the climate of redundancy. The whole world

of art and heart should give a substratum and strengthen their panache of imitation, imagination and improvisation.