EFFECT OF BOLLYWOOD MOVIES ON SOCIETY IN INDIA

The Hindi movies that relate to the audience are generally watched
by the people and movies that reach the people’s heart, are made a
hit by the audience. Today all watching real life matches played by
Indian teams, have in their minds the movie Chak De India. This is
the effect of movies on society

There have been many movies made by the directors and producers
in the Indian cinema. It is many times said by inconsiderate actors
and actresses that movies should be watched by the audience just
for entertainment and not to get prejudiced by the story and
characters in the movie.

In 50s many directors like Bimal Roy and Satyajit Ray were
efficient enough to use the medium of movies like Bandini, Do
Bigha Zameen etc, to aware people of the social norms and
practices and also to fight against the wrong practices in society
.People watched the movies seriously and such movies worked as a
medium to create the current society of India.
In 70s the movie Guddi tried to bring to light the art of movie
making and characters in movies, to inform audience about movie
making techniques and distinguish it from the real life.

Today almost everybody knows that movies made are unrealistic

and should just be watched for entertainment but even today we
find that the movie are taken seriously by the audience. You find
the effect not only in social structure but also other areas.

Like you find India playing matches well after watching the Chak
De India or the family functions are marked by the songs and
dances played in Sooraj R.Barjatya movies. The college going
students watch the movies to copy the hair styles or dresses. Many
times we find the way of talking is effected by the movie
dialogues.
From many examples it can be conclude that movie makers carry a
responsibility on their shoulders towards the society and they
should try to deliver ideas or concept that affects people’s lives for
betterment and not just make money by entertaining people
showing unrealistic superseded stuffs.

EFFECT OF MOVIES ON PEOPLE

Now, the experience of a good movie is being engrossed.

How does it keep you there?

There are answers to do with the nature of the medium, and the
type of meditation.

And a much cruder answer is this: a good film gives you one
interest after another or one pleasure after another. And here the
list of what can fascinate and/or pleasure is endless, just as the list
of what people are curious about and what makes them react is
endless. Surprise, tears, fear, laughter; sexual, aesthetic,
psychological interests; morbid interests; interests of particular
objects, events, activities; interests in seeing a story through to
completion, in seeing justice done, in being supplied with useful
information...

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What of the afterwards? What does it mean to digest a movie?

A complete answer would be as manifold as the actual movie-

watching, and the digestion would involve replaying scenes in your
head, looking for plot holes, returning to mysteries, contemplating
moments, objects, ideas...
But there are two aspects of the process I want particularly to
mention.

One is that every movie has the potential to condition you. Movies
can colour your experience of the world -- with feelings and
thoughts, with reference. “I’ll never look at an x the same way
again.” And this can happen whether you want it or not. And you
can force this on other people. You’re supplied with material you
can use, especially in conversation, especially to amuse, or to assist
with difficult thoughts, or as shorthand for complex or extended
thoughts.

The second is that there's a continual ethical element to watching

films, and to the digestion. “Ethical” in a broad sense: how does
this movie change your life, and how should you change your life?
What is the best way for you to live? What do you think of the
claims the movie is making -- about people, about what’s good and
bad, about the consequences of a thing? And what were the best
choices in the movie's particular situations?

It might even be the case that a religious upbringing prepares

people to treat all texts as parables, with lessons to be learnt.

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These ethical questions, throughout the film and afterwards, are

answered -- consciously and unconsciously.

Perhaps one sign of the mode's prevalence is that people imitate

what they see in movies, even in speech pattern or dress. And in
the course of watching, they engage with the decisions the
characters make, they actively think about the choices.
The fact that we have such a mode, and continually ask and think
about choice, and ingest answers, can be taken to suggest three
general features of human ethics:
-- That we don’t get all our rules of conduct and values from
scripture or parents or any other authority: we get a lot of it,
perhaps most of it, from the world generally, from conversation,
from meetings of ideas, from the hypothetical of art;
-- That broad ethical principles are founded on experience of many
particulars (though some particulars will be more striking, more
vivid in the memory, than others);
-- And that our natural inclination is unabstract -- that “Is it right to
kill?” and “What haircut would suit me?” are the same sort of
question -- that, when the time comes, all problems boil down to
choice in particular situations, to real, practical, things.

ARISTOTLEAN THEORY OF DRAMA

Purpose of tragedy
Aristotle felt that in Tragedy the plight of the central character
should invoke fear and pity within an audience. A tragic character
would evoke pity because the audience would see him as an
unwitting victim of undeserved misfortune. Fear would be evoked
because the audience could relate to the character and see
themselves in his plight.

Catharsis in Tragedy
The conclusion of a tragedy should result in a catharsis.

Catharsis is defined as, “the purging of the emotions or relieving of

emotional tensions, esp. through certain kinds of art, as tragedy or
music” some scholars have found the term “purge” more
favourable in the context of tragedy.

Balance of the Universe

Aristotle believed that Tragedy was rooted in the cause and effect
nature of the universe and that is why people could easily relate to
it. Tragic stories therefore should not be rooted in coincidence or
happenstance. The plot of a Tragedy is the result of actions taken
by the protagonist.

According to many in our society today, there is a huge amount of

violence on television, in the movies, in songs, on the Internet, at
home, and on the streets. Many feel that the younger generation,
which refers to ages including newborn to teenager, is exposed to
more than their share of violence. The younger generation has
many false conceptions about violence, thanks to the mass media.
Most think that violence is a quick way to solve problems and is
also a hero's way to solve problems, not usually as a last resort.
The National Coalition on Television Violence states in a recent
report that three things determine a violent act: the act must
involve an agent and a victim, it must contain an expression of
overt force, and it must be committed with a deliberate and hostile
intent. According to the same report from the National Coalition
on Television Violence, a violent act is not any violence that is
involved in accidents, emotional outbursts, slapstick comedy,
horseplay, or sports. The two largest kinds of media that contain
violence today are the movies and television. The violence in these
two forms of media have a very large impact, due to widespread
movie theaters, and ninety-nine percent of homes having at least
one television.

INFLUENCE OF FILMS ON YOUNG PEOPLE

The popular film industry of India is second to that of America in
the world. Our film industry makes hundreds of films every year.
Both of the films in Hindi and other regional languages are equally
popular in our country. The films telecast on Television their video
versions and those screened in pitcher halls are a craze.
Among the young people the cinema far go to the cinema halls and
see their favourite films a no. of times. Some young people see a
different film quandary. The do not see the film for the sake of
addition in their general knowledge. The rather see it just to kill
their time. Some young people leave all the other activities and
view the films frequently on the T.V. sets.
Excess of every thing is bad. Though the films are cheapest and the
most popular means of entertainment yet they often do a great
harm to the young people in India Most of the films are cheap and
low in standards. Social religions, educational and cultural films
are very few and for between. The film industry is run only on
commercial lines. They keep in mind the box office only and
produce formula films.
Most of the films the are produced three day are devoid of reality
of life. They show such deviations as are not convincing at all they
are full of violence made sex, irrelevant song and vulgate and spicy
dances. They are also full of cheap romance, foreign imitation,
catchy and silly songs. Such films have a very harmful influence
on the modern youth of India because they are full of artificiality.
They mislead the immature and inexperienced young boys and
girls. Indiscipline, unrest and lawlessness have been increased
amongst the modern young boys. They imitate the fashion and
pseudo adventures and misadventures of the film heroes and
heroines. As a result they get into trouble sooner or later.
There has been a rapid increase in the cases of our teasing and
assault on ladies etc. Such events and incidents can be attributed to
a large extent to the films. The immature youth fails to distinguish
between stunts and genuine adventure.
It is an unpleasant matter that the villainous adventures shown on
the cinema screen leave a bold and bad influence on the young
generation. The cinema has eroded the human and their ethical
values to a very large or can say upto very huge extent common
features of the film that we find are only dacoits kidnapping, rapes,
molestations, murders, bloodshed guj- battles and made dances are
the most common care money is the only thing which attract the
young ones to the film industry next we can say is the film
magazines and periodicals which are also playing an important role
in spoiling the moral values and ethical – of the youth. They teach
those gimmicks deception and fashion.
Cinema leaves a deep and lasting impact on the young brains. It
can play a strong education and constructive role as a significant
instrument of creaking communal harmony, national integration
and a sound sense of public morals. It is a matter of concern and
regret that the film makers dodge the censor board and get their
pornographic and ill- deserved films approved. Some young men
and women get ruined out of their ambition to become film hero or
heroine. Greed reigns supreme in out film world. As a result, the
film industry has given rise to a lot of unaccounted and black
money. The censor board should not issue a certificate of approval
to those illogical and bad films which are full of erotic and censer
concerning women and sex. Only the Educational aesthetic and
interactions films which depict human values and true heroism in
life- like situations should meet their approval. Such film would
widen public awareness and understanding and strengthen the
national character and public morals.