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The Influence Of Our Films
Our Stars Don't Even Kiss
The other day I met an abnoxious old fogey of the type who thinks anything pertaining to the 20th century is immoral and he said to me "you know my child, I'm very worried about the youth of to-day. Boys and girls are not what they used to be in my day. It makes me sad when I see how our modest homeloving Indian maidens are being demoralised. There is an evil force at work, my child, and that force is the Indian film industry". Here he leered at me as only an ancient of seventy-odd can and dug me in my sparsely covered and therefore ultrasensitive ribs. This latter action was meant as an invitation for me to agree with what he had said; I refused to do so, firstly, because I didnf agree with what he had said, secondly, because I don't like being spoken to as though I'm a drooling infant and lastly, because I don't like being dug in the ribs.
I don't agree with what he said because I Jim a member of the 20th century cmema-going youth and I definitely have not been demoralised. Indian films are mild compared
with some of the blood and thunder American films I have seen and which have not affected my morals in the least.
....the uiUain always dies a repentant man.
When any old friend said "Boys and girls arc not what they used to be in my day* he wasn't honest enough to admit that the boys in his
We never thought Jairaj was good at this. Shobhana and Azurie seem to have taught him in "Nai Duniya", a Circo picture.
... .he dug me in my sparsely covered and therefore ultra-sensitive ribs.
day were all stuffed shirts and crashing bores and the girls had less backbone than an undersized flea has.
If Indian films are responsible for the change in the youth of to-day. then we should all stand up and cheer because it is a change for the better.
The more prehistoric among Indian parents feel that when their son and heir goes to see a film in which villainous men shoot at each other he immediately comes home and starts planning murders. Now if their son is a normally gocd and fairly intelligent boy, a gangster film will not affect his morals in the least. On the other hand if he is inclined to have criminal tendencies a film about criminals will help to cure this because in an Indian film. Good is always made to triumph over Evil in the end. The villain may kill dozens of gocd and innocent people but he is invariably killed in the end and dies a repentant man. A bad boy seeing these films will learn a "crime does not pay' lesson from them.
LOVE AND GIRLS
There are some parents who fear that their sons will begin to think too much of love, romance and the opposite sex if they go to the cinema. However cloistered a life a boy may have led. when he reaches his late teens it is only natural that he should begin to think about love and girls. If thoughts like this are taboo in his parent's home then he will begin to feel that there is
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