Indian Cinema Hundred Year,s Old

To my Indian Friends


Permit me to express my personal views on the Indian Cinema Industry that has been prevalent in our country for the past one Hundred Years. I recall my first experience of seeing a black and white Cinema AMBIKAPATHI a Tamil film in my village. It was a thrilling moment for me to see actors moving on the screen and speaking to each other as if in real life. The costumes also were appropriate to the roles enacted.

Earlier days the Cinema was intended to impart moral values including sober entertainments in the minds of the people to become better citizens. This trend has totally disappeared in the modern Cinema, and no importance whatsoever is given to moral values of Life. The latest Cinema shows have drifted off from its idealistic virtues and are now bringing in imagination and fantacy, depicting errotic gesticulations and suggestive movements of the body , inducing damaging effects in the minds of the Young and the old, resulting in indiscipline and waverdness in social life.

The Female Figure was fully exploited to attract the baser elements of common man and thereby luring them to social evils such as rape,murder,and other henious crimes.The film makers minted money in this process and there was no agency to curb this low Profile Cinemas.Money was the ultimate end and therefore the Means adopted to achieve the same was justified by several lobbies.

According to me the Cinema- most of them- have not contributed anything substantial to the public at large in building up a healthy and peaceful life style. Instead it has drawn the Younger ,Adolescent children to ruination by instilling in their minds an idea of "Indecent Exposures" and other Sex provoking activities. Most of the Cinemas are based on imaginary writings of Perverted Themes which do not have any bearing on realities of Life.Youngsters who see such fantacy films take them for granted and apply the same in their life style!, resulting in Social Degradation.

Therefore unless there is a thorough shakeup in the Cinema world and makers of Films attach importance to Moral Values and produce Educative and Socially relevant Cinemas, the society will be driven to the point of no return. Also restriction to be imposed on the costumes which expose the body "beyond lakshman rekha".Unless we ensure this in the Films, the rupture already created in the Human Fabric cannot be mended!. Therefore let us Wake up before it is too late and try to improve the Quality of Indian Cinema and also TV SHOWS to create a better living conditions.