GD 2: Effect of cinema on youth

[Manish Salian]

Viral Vora

(1) Motivational and Positive
e.g., impact that Rang De Basanti had on the youth voicing their opinion in Jesicca Lal case or re-awakening to Ganghigiri after Munnabhai MBBS

(2) On the whole, very ephemeral impact. Because Bollywood churns out over 800 films a year coupled with the demanding life of toay's youth, they watch movies mostly for entertainment and do not get affected much.



Merup Kapadia

(1) Censor board plays an important role in determining correct and ethically right things to the people as the cinema we watch in someway or the other directly impacts us.

(2) Not only the youth watching the cinema but also youth involved in making the cinema are impacted. eg, if path breaking films are not made, youth might never be able to do out-of-the box thinking, for eg. films like Dor, Iqbal, 3 deewarein, being cyrus (may not be commercially hit but critically acclaimed), do encuorage young film-makers to try and do something new.

(3) Adding to the point of Viral, films/cinema do actually generate positive ideas in youth, for example, we have films like Yuva where in Ajay Devgan forms his own political party for fighting against injustice, so in real life there are political parties been formed in states by youth eg.(Five IITians have formed a new political party in India, named Paritrana & organizations like Youth for Equality.)



Devanshi Vaishnav

(1) 3.1 bn tickets sold everyday in India as compared to 2.9bn in the US

(2) Another direct impact is by the virtue of employments. Bollywood employs 6 million people.

(3) When we say Bollywood, it covers movies produced in all languages and the fact that only 20% of movies (of 1000 produced a year )are Hindi.

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Biren Master

(1) On the flip side, movies are one of the channels/medium through which western culture has influenced today's youth from fashion to relationships.

(2) The increased importance of glamour over substance in today's movies must also be discouraged.

(3) Noticeably, not many films these days address the 'traditional' social issues like poverty, dowry, plight of rural women (except 'Dor'), domestic violence, casteism and others due to which youth (atleast urban youth) are more or less ignorant of these issues.

(4) On the positive side, path breaking movies like 'Chak De India' have come to inspire sportsfans, 'Taare Zameen Par' allowed people to understand and address the issue of 'special' kids and the need for initiatives that need to be taken for them for us to be truly called an evolved and civilised society.



Vikas Kappe

(1) Cinema is a kind of digital media which has lot of power in order to impact minds of millions of people and specially youths in a short span of time. The impact can be positive or negative.

(2) Effect of cinema majorly(except some rare cases) depends on how individual youth perceives it. e.g. from adventurous film, one individual young person may go for unnecessary adventure whereas other sensible individual can use this adventurous impact on his mind in his work to bring himself to upper level in his career/life.

(3) Unfortunately many bollywood films are more focused on comic part and style culture by assumption of removing daily fatiguness in routine life. They avoid to touch important social issues which can also attract a lot of crowd like done by Madhur bhandarkar's films and Amir khan's recent film "Tare zamin par" as mentioned by Biren.

(4) If we expect a positive effect of cinema on youth in India then many Indian film makers have to bring orignality to the films instead of copying some parts from hollywood films and also try to make films enjoyable as well as a learning experience for the youths.



Vikrant Bawkar

I would also like to make a point here.
(1) Today we can see that the youth also got into the habit of smoking like how Shahrukh or Sanjay Dutt does in their films. The youth found themselves very proud to smoke like these superstars.

(2) The other example is, in films like Vaastav and Traffic Signal wherein the Red Alert Areas were shown, todays youth is also getting attracted towards Red Alert Areas and wants those ares to be visited often. This is a very dangerous thing for the country like India which is going to be the Powerful Democratic country in near future.

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Saurabh P

(1) Effect of cinema on youth is, according to me, wide and varied. We could have an optimistic view and say how movies like "Rang De basanti" and "yuva" have positively influenced the society. While there are several movies which have just added to the negative influence on society.

(2) Considering a country like India where cricketers and movie-stars are considered to be demi-gods, movies play a crucial role in shaping the mindset of the youth of the country who are the most influenced. The success of the products endorsed by the movie-stars like Shahrukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Amitabh Bacchan,etc are classic examples to support the case.

(3) In such a case, movie-makers and filmstars become a set of leaders whose ideas are followed by the young generation. It is therefore necessary for the filmmakers to be responsible towards the society and set a good precedent in front of the youth.

(4) Having said this, we as the educated youth of India should also act responsibly and not blindly follow the ideas depicted by cinema.
Here, self-censorship comes into picture and plays a very important role as cinema is a feedback-oriented industry.

(5) Unfortunately, in our country, the censor board is treated like a puppet and has no teeth. The state of affairs in the cine-industry could get much better if the censor board becomes more powerful.

(6) Apart from this, Indian cinema , of late has been greatly influenced by the western culture. Though the positives drawn could be that the Indian mentality is slowly becoming liberal and open-minded, its very important to understand that the traditional Indian culture should not be compromised upon.



Alok Thakkar

(1) Every coin has 2 sides there r also some –ve impact on people & childrens
• Such as Krish movie which influence the childrens –vely .As there were many cases eg. That kids jumped from the bulding thinking that they can fly like Krish which took place in many cities in India.
• In India bollywood stars r like a living God for the Youth , the bollywood stars are much involves in the ads for colas, fast foods like pizzas, chips, lays & alchohal which is not good for the youth to get addicted to it & to consume it , but they do it as their favourites star are involve in it eg. Saif ali khan involves in ad of alchohal .
• Movies like Nishabd & chenikum are not accepted in Indian culture & it was a big shame that the star of the millennium MR.A.B was involve in this movies.
• Movies like Girlfriend & Ajnabi are inspiring the youth wrongly .

(2) On the other side movies like Corporate, Page3, Traffic signal & Chandni bar r showing the dark side of the life which is not known by the comman people.



Shraddha Kamat

(1) Inspite of the fact that most films that are made are 'flops', the fact remains that they are still produced. Isn't there a huge risk factor involved on the investment? Is there no entrepreneurial aspect to this

(2)An awaking call. Films like 'Tingya' being accepted and appreciated after the world has given various rewards to it

(3) Censor board is now only remnants of what it was. Films portray what they want to portray - the good the bad and the ugly



Karishma Savla

(1) The impact depends upon two things the kind of cinema we are talking about and the receptors state of mind.

(2) At a very young and vulnerable age , movies which depict violence, vulgarity,
horror,sex and meaningless entertainment create a negative impact.

(3) The latest six pack ab makeover by Shahrukh Khan and Kareena's Extreme weightloss regime for certain character in her film, created such a negative impact, that youngsters already obsessed to achive great looks and physique resorted to means like taking weight loss pills(drugs)and extreme starvation to emulate their role models creating serious health concerns.

(4) Looking at the flip side, just as music and aroma therapy there is something called as film therapy, founded in a research centre in Moscow.

Film therapy uses , health films (like health foods) to cure patients suffering from mental depressions, frustration, mood-swings,fatigue, disorintation, stress etc.

The health films are nothing but comedy films which use simple and accidental humor that induce laughter which helps in reducing the mental strain and stress and helps release healthy hormones in the system.


Regards,

Manish sir

[Manish Salian]

Hi,

Here is how all of you have fared in GD 1: Effect of cinema on youth

Viral Vora: 6 marks

Devanshi Vaishnav: 6 marks

Alok Thakkar: 6 marks

Merup Kapadia: 3 marks

Karishma Savla: 5 marks

Vikas Kappe: 4 marks

Vikrant Bawkar: 4 marks

Saurabh P: 4 marks

Biren Master: 2 marks

Shraddha Kamat: 1 mark

You would have realized that responding early can fetch you a lot of brownie points for 'originality'!

Regards,

Manish sir