Sunday 16 August 2015

Why doesn’t an Indian child speak Japanese?

Are you from India, native? Does your child speak Japanese? Korean? French? Russian?
Of course NO! because they haven’t seen a single person who speak those languages here in India. We call Keralite a Malayalee, but a Thiruvananthapuram child does not speak the Kannur Malayalam, because he/she doesn’t see such slang

Then why do you expect your child to behave as someone else apart from what they see or perceive from society?!

Shouldn’t movies have a considerable influence in a society; in shaping trends, culture, ideologies about ethics, concepts about behavior etc???
Whenever I point out this ‘fact’, I was always been asked ‘ha ha! Have you ever heard of people committed crimes seeing movies??? Or is there anyone at your fingertip who became a noble person seeing good movies?’

And now,
We do see the ‘Premam’ effect in Kerala; released on May 29 2015. Quite a lot of students grow beard in my institute, and they plan to wear similar costumes from the same movie for Onam celebration! The vocabulary of the youngsters has been extended only because of certain ‘hit’ movies…

Also, you must have seen statutory warning in movies whenever someone smokes or drinks alcohol, isn’t it? But, there is no warning if someone drives with no helmet or seatbelt or if someone drops waste on public place or molests someone
I don’t want to make this article lengthy by putting such scenes. You will find it a common movie; it’s guaranteed. Most of the time our ‘hero’ disobeys rules (only because he is hero and he may do whatever he wants to do)

In brief there is no warning whenever someone violates a LAW or some unethical practice happen!

Children imitates a lot… when I was a child of age around 5, I climbed over a small papaya tree; it got cut off halfway and I fell down along with the tree (hero used to climb up areca palm tree in a movie I saw on that day, and for me all that available was a small papaya tree ).
I have seen several news in which children of age less than ten used to rape, seeing blue films or porn movies…

India has first place in producing movies, twice as that of Hollywood. In a year, nearly 2000 movies are being released in India; one of the biggest industry.

Well, it is certain that movies are not of priority than food, shelter, money or education. Why can’t we just cut short the number of movies and make the censor board even stricter? Or else you can’t expect your child to be a ‘good’ citizen and hence the development of a nation!



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