Assignment for Prerana Rao
My daughter, Prerana Rao had asked me to send her write-up on Cinema bringing disaster to youth for submission of an essay in her college.
Deadly March of Cinema and TV is pushing our youth to the brink of disaster
I wish to take all of you to the time of World War 2. The Allied Forces gave much importance to the intensive technology in order to defeat the Nazis. A lot of money was spent on innovation of telecommunication networks. This led to the invention of Computers in the late 1950s.
Slowly the computer machines were being used in information technology which brought the world into one unit especially when Television was invented in the 1970s. There was a revolution in telecommunication technology during the 1980s and the Indian engineers in America played a key role. Today we are living in the era of telecommunication and India is one of the main players in Software development.
Coming to the movie aspect, right from the days of Mauryan Empire in 100 BC, the Indian Kings gave encouragement to art and culture. Indian cinema witnessed the first ever movie in the year 1939. On account of her special culture encouragement in art witnessed a massive growth in production of cinema by the 1960s. Today India is the largest producer of cinemas or movies in the world.
Now let us examine the merits and demerits of cinema and TV
One can argue the various merits with reference to education, updation of knowledge, knowing the current affairs etc, which were definitely true to the advantage of the Indian youth in the beginning. But alas! The same merits have brought in lots of demerits leading to spoilage of youth's career.
Today we see more than 100 channels on TV which are operated by multinational companies and cable operators. Every day not less than 50 movies are shown on TV. There are not less than 10 specially meant for music lovers. Our youth are fascinated to view the various unwanted music and cinema channels for hours together wasting their future or career.
Likewise we see enormous growth in the number of productions of cinemas in India. Indian States are divided on linguistic approach and each State has its own official regional language. Hence regional cinema has become more popular leading to production of hundreds of regional cinemas in a year. Again our youth is attracted by these movies. The youth never minds skipping the classes but are ready to stand in long queues to view the latest released movie. The value-less movies have spoiled the morale of the youth.
The valuable time of our youth which could have been used for productive purposes is simply wasted in front of the Idiot Box, i.e., TV.
Today's youth is tomorrow's responsible citizens. India is a poor nation with rich natural resources. These rich resources can be tapped provided India produces intelligent and hard working citizens. On account of cinemas and TV fascination by youth, they are unable to put hard efforts in studies and thereby stand on their own legs.
Attraction of western culture and the urge by the youth to imitate the same has brought the youth in a position of dilemma.
India is a poor nation. More than 70% of the 102 crore population lives in rural areas without any basic necessities of ROTI KAPDA AUR MAKAAN, meaning without proper food to eat, without proper dress to wear and without a proper shelter. This being so I wish to place my further arguments as below:
- Imitation in reality of the stunned scenes shown in the movies has led the parents in America and western countries a very difficult situation to handle.
- Viewing vulgar scenes by the youth leads to the spoilage of the mind of the youth.
- Where would there be time to study when the student is attracted to movies and TVs?
- Is it not the duty of all the elders to fight against the liberalised policies especially with regard to running movie and music channels on TV?
- What right one has to spoil the morale of the Indian youth?
- Is it not the duty of the Government to ban the viewing of movies by minors? (a minor is one who has not completed the age of 18 years) The ban would definitely assist the parents in inducing the children to study.
end- written sometime ಇನ್ 2004
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