When man comes home after day’s work, he needs some sort of
entertainment and relaxation. Cinema has proved a wonderful and
forceful means of entertainment and amusement. A young man of today can
go without food but not without a film. The cinema is the cheapest and
the most popular form of amusement. Laborers can afford to miss their
evening meal, not their evening show.
Students prefer films to reading books. Thus, cinema exercises a very powerful effect on society.
Cinema is a universal teacher. It educates the people in different
branches of learning. Our film producers have made very purposeful
films to collect public opinion against some of the social evils as
dowry system, the labour exploitation. It can teach us natural history,
geography, botany, chemistry etc. Documentary films lead us to a
street in New York are to a park of Tokyo.
These films increase our knowledge, broaden our outlook. Social
pictures throw light on social evils as untouchability, casteism,
unemployment and the curse of widowhood, etc. These films ripen our
eyes and create in us an urge for improvement.
Cinema has a great commercial value also. It is itself a great
industry, Lacs of men and women are directly or indirectly employed in
this industry. It is a good and easy means of advertisement. Things and
articles can be shown in practical use through the films.
Most of the modern Indian movies ignore higher ideals. It is wrong to
say that the public wants vulgarity. Too much cinema going is
injurious to eyesight, health and purse. Bad films leave a very
vitiating effect on the minds of youth. They give rise to different
kinds of crimes. The vulgar obscene pictures should not be allowed to
be exhibited. They cause morality in society.
The films which make the people gamblers, dacoits, etc. should
totally be banned. The traders of film industry should not be ill owed
to profit by showing sensual scenes and physical demonstration of love.
These films effect the moral character of young boys and girls badly.
Cinema, on the whole, is a powerful means of recreation as well as of
education. It is not itself bad. The film producers should select good
stories classical mythology, historical subjects and Indian literary
master-pieces. Documentary films on scientific, historical and literary
subjects should be shown to students. The producers are misusing
cinema for making huge profits.
It should be moral duty of producers to produce noble and inspiring
films. The Government should take care of this. If cinema industry
produces noble and inspiring films, the cinema would be a true friend,
philosopher and guide of the masses.
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