I was watching a Hindi movie recently (sadly I do not get the name ), where the hero influences a heroine saying it is cool to drink on a week day and then get to work , and also to drive after that . Why ? Ya , You bet - our hero has an explanation to that “because its pure fun , and we need to drink and drive to get the real masti effect “ !!!His words are so powerful and so magical that the gal (our heroine , I didn’t think she was so dump , by her looks and her attire ), ignores her so called boyfriend , brands him as boring (because he has a routine and drinks only on weekends!!!! Is that not enough ), and “Enjoys life “(If so called drinking daily and driving with a reeling head can be called so ...)…I did not understand what the director was trying to prove there ? To enjoy life we should not have a routine ?? to enjoy life one needs to use alcohol daily ? we need to drink and drive .. Ya, kill ourselves we will , but we can also knock down someone on the road too.. I didn’t get the logic at all .. Anyways the movie ended with a note happily ever after , and I have nothing against the movie . But I didn’t agree with the movie’s scripts .After all powerful , meaningful ,clear dialogues are still enjoyed by many apart from music and dance! .
Cinema is meant to be for fun , but don’t the directors get this; There are millions of people idolizing their dream hero’s and their ravishing heroines. So MOVIE is not just a form of entertainment, but something more than that. When a movie gets released, it is with the same enthusiasm that a villager or a person from a city enters the hall. . This is true , we wait for days for a movie release and do take out time to watch that movie . Kids are no less . They in fact get more excited to catch a glimpse of their super star and carefully note their accent , their costumes , their styles etc …An average movie hits the market and reaches out to millions and millions of people in towns, cities , villages.
I am not saying that every movie has to convey a message, ok well if it can then Excellent !. But messages in movies are too much to ask for these days ..! In India we have lot of channels and programmes revolving around Cinemas , may be more than the number of news channels. After a tiring day a kid is more interested to sit back and watch a movie than know what is happening in India or abroad. If the kid can get the good from the bad then she will know that “ hey drinking is bad for health. Teacher told me that we should never drink and drive. This is dangerous. Life is not about talking back to parents or not taking responsibilities.. Or is it , hmm, “” . Now, I am not at all surprised if at least 10 of the 100 children who watch hindi movies , these days think this way and getting confused !…
In most of the movies , the heroines have to drink (forget the guys drinking , it’s too casual and ordinary ), guys have to bleed the villains to death , , they have to be bad and impolite ,and not do well in studies etc. etc. … and not to mention the pub culture (shown in a very bad way )etc.. But the point is , there is too much of western influence in the movies these days. We at this age, can say from the good and the bad, Someone from the college, a student , of course can.. But think of a girl or a boy whose middle class parents work day and night and have no time to actually “see” what this guy is eyeing in movies. They may think after all its just a movie..! But hey NO, There are no ratings for the movies like they have in the English movies. All the Indian movies are of general category!!! Ok , so now the kid may think its cool to drink and drive ,to beat up people , be confused , and irresponsible just to idilosie the characters they love in the movies!. He may get highly tempted to try out and booze with his friends at a very early stage of his school life .
Now, analysis 2-A normal Indian kid (I meant financially) has to strive through all the competitions and tension to get a good job .We forget that India is still a developing country. True, India is progressing at a high rate. But yes, we have still not reached a phase where we can proudly say that there is not single family in our country who do not have 3 sumptuous meals a day . In the midst of all this, the directors bring about these confusing concepts, and influence kids at a large scale . After all a gangster is not born in a day . Blurred thoughts and a confused outlook towards life , with no proper guidance can mislead the YOUNG MINDS into wrong paths.
Just like Politics and Press, Cinema is highly influential and something which is looked upon by a large audience. When we say that Politics or Press has got responsibility, why do we forget that directors also should have some moral obligations towards the people of our Country? It is ok to ape the west, but then why can’t we take their good things, TOO!!!. Why can’t there be 1 good movie which conveys their punctuality and their dedication towards work .Why can’t they put the message across the people of India that in THE West , drink and drive is a criminal offence and you will be penalized like hell , If you ever break the Rule ,You are restricted from driving may be throughout your life , and hey rules are rules, one must follow them . If you get caught for drugs , people are send to jails for years and years and the price they pay for their misconduct are too high ! Most of the western countries deny citizenship if a person is caught with enough evidences ..How many kids in India know all this?
Our country has got a beautiful culture and the foreigners look forward to us, when they talk about family and relationships. I do not deny any of them. Most of us are extremely close to our families. We value our traditions. And then comes the villain like directors who brings out and highlight matters which are not at all relevant to the movie or to the time we live for a mass of audience . How many of us drink liquor daily , break rules daily , drink and drive etc .just on the basis of fun ! .Why do we high light so much on the drinking alcohols, or drugs, or violence unnecessarily . Just show only what is required for the movie. Why the hype ?and they end the movie with a happy note which could some where trigger some wrong brain cells in kids . The movies these days do not depict a common man’s India .
A poor man ‘son may get awed by the onscreen alcohol or the drug usage and may feel sad that he has no money to buy them. A rich man’s son has enough awareness of its implications to his health. But think about a middle class or less than an average family. Can his parents always protect him from knowing which is good and the bad or have enough oratory or influencing skills to brain wash his kids to protect him from the bad!
We know that most of the things which happen in the movies do not happen for real .We also put a note in you tube when we hear good old songs and movies as “good old days “, because we loved the movies where we could match and be like hero or heroine of that period. Now a days , movies potray a heroine as some one whom a normal indian girl just cannot compare to . The way the hero talks ,or his mannerism are not the way a normal guy in the city would do . So we as audience fall far behind the dreamy characters that they play . An average Indian knows that all this is just “maya “ or a foam which we need to forget once we leave the theatre, and there is nothing to take back from the movie . The movie was ‘just fun “ But let’s not forget to think and criticize when we hear meaningless scripts
The sensor boards should take serious actions in this regard. The script writer can show his responsibility towards his job, by not spreading wrong messages through his scripts if not a good script !. But more than ever , I would say that a hero should at least have the guts to speak up and say that “hey , is this line really required here , can we change this line slightly “and he should be given this flexibility and freedom . After all a hero/ heroine has the moral obligation to his devoted fans for their love and support. The media who can hype to any extend to get a good public attention can protest against the irrelevant and dirty usage of dialogues. If not a revolution, at least awareness can be created in a huge scale .In the West, the kids are the most protected lot. Why? Because they are the future of a nation , and they like to see their future bright .So if we are actually aping the west , then don’t we all also have the responsibility to protect our children from the compelling clutches of the reel world !
