Movies and our Social behaviour and Cultural values!

We are what we are!

India has a long and rich cultural history. Perhaps it is the one and the only culture which has to its credit Lord Shiva coming down to our world to compose a poem in chaste Tamil , Lord Vishnu going behind a Tamil Poet obeying his command and Lord Ganesha writing the verses composed by Ved Vyas, using His tusk as pen.

Such mystic stories weaved around mythological figures have been a tradition in India to highlight the importance of values and ethics in our day to day life. Ithihasas like Ramayana,Mahabharatha have her oes who have lived a dutiful life as shining examples for the common milieu.

Why this long preamble is required is due to the fact that stories have a strong influence on people in shaping their social behaviour .Since man is a social animal and as he is likely to fall prey to bad habits because there is a natural tendency for vile habits to take quick control of him.He has an attraction for such socially unacceptable habits and behaviour and so our ancestors understood this and wrote stories which will provide him a moral compass guiding him in his life journey making him useful for the society and the nation in general.

Even thirty years back our movies reflected our modern times but were grounded in age old ethical values and cultural heritage. But nowadays movies in the guise of being realistic, have started portraying anti-heroes as models. Such anti-heroes remain as bundle of contradictions- womaniser, drunkard, drug addicts,wayward and what not , but they yearn for the love of their lover!! They will not listen to their parents living a rowdy life but will want to straighten the politicians and the corrupt.!! Not only heroes, heroines are also exhibiting such socially unacceptable behaviour like drinking, having sex with their lover before marriage .

What kind of degraded social and individual values we are bequeathing to our children in the garb of realism. Do we realise that we have not inherited this world from our parents but we have actually borrowed it from our children to whom we should leave footprints for them to follow with their baby steps and blossom.

Quo vadis!

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