A study on the bad effect of violence shown in our Indian films
Acknowledgement
I would like to express my profound gratitude
to Mrs. Mousumi Kundu , Department of English, Bankura Sammilani College, and
other faculty members of our department. I would like to express my gratitude
to the honorable principal of our college. Besides, I would like to thank our
library staff for helping me by providing books and study materials, which
helped me enough to complete my presentation. I would like to express my
gratitude to the professors of the English department of the university for
their contribution to the completion of my project.
Abstract
Today’s
internet has made our lives so easy that we can see whatever we want, though
smartphones have played a great role in it. Like everything else, watching a
movie has also become very easy. Like everything else, watching a movie has
also become very easy. Thanks to OTT platforms and many other applications
Previously, people mostly watched movies in cinemas, thanks to OTT platforms
and many other applications. Previously, people mostly used to watch movies in
theatres, but now a Smartphone with an internet connection is doing the job for
us. With society, the themes of the cinema are also changing. Most filmmakers
are busy promoting nudity and hatred.
Though
themes like nudity are not present in every film, in most films there will be
more or less violence, which is named "action" by our modern
filmmakers. If we look at every hit film of these decades, all of them will
have violence like Gangs of Wasseypur Part 1and Gangs of Wasseypur Part 2. Recent release films Pathan, KGF chap 1, KGF chap 2, and Pushpa," all of them celebrate violence. The protagonist
of the film does things that are completely against the rules and laws for
personal gain. Violence is the cornerstone of such films, but they still gain
immense success at the box office.
Keywords: Movie, Theaters, Internet, Violence, Criminal
Introduction
Violence has always
been an integral part of cinema, but previously it was done in a glamorous way,
but now it has become a main theme. Violence is the cornerstone of modern
cinema, and it influences teenagers and adults alike.
Due to their widespread
appeal, violence and crime are the hot topics that have always drawn filmmakers
from all over the world. The main source of violence exposure for people of all
ages is media. Love, crime, and sex have been recognized by researchers as the
three perennial themes that have dominated 75% of the commercial films. From
the invention of cinema in the late 19th century, commercial films have been
made all over the world. It is important to remember that violence is
frequently portrayed in films in an unrealistic and exaggerated manner.
Fighting and murdering are sometimes shown as a quick and easy way out of a
situation without any consideration for the consequences, especially when
heroes and villains are involved.
This
research paper seeks to show how such films have a bad effect on the audience,
especially the youth, and how they influence people to commit violence by
showing the lavishly beautiful life of a criminal in so-called action films.
Literature Review
The research question is the negative effect of violence
shown in Indian films. Indeed, it is an interesting topic to discuss as such
films are earning huge amounts of money at the box office, and movies with
different themes like love, social issues, and art are not coming into the
limelight. Movies based on violence are always there, but previously movies with
different themes used to be appreciated, but in the post-pandemic era, the
scenario has completely changed, and movies with violence and hatred became
very famous. And as a result, cinemas with good stories and acting became very
hard to find, and one can inarguably conclude that action sells like no other
genre among the Indian audience.F0r an example in 2022 a movie Named ”Jersey”
was released it projects how a former cricketer returns to after many years and
faced many difficulties and became a very good player. This movie teaches us we
should never give up but still it failed at
the box ofiice. KGF, Pushpa, Pathan , Gangs of wasseypur
Such movies are having a very bad impact on children and teenagers. Though the
film-makers might think that the violence in the movies is unreal and will have
no effect on our society, there is plenty of evidence, like one schoolboy
beating up another and saying the dialogues of such films or the teenagers
idolizing the so-called hero of such cinemas, which shows how someone can
become so rich and powerful by killing other people. And the guilty always tend
to pin the blame for such a morose act on what they have seen in a film before.
Gangs of Wasseypur
Released
in 2012 and directed by Anurag Kashyap, Gangs
of Wasseypur depicts the story of the coal mafias of Dhanbad and the power
struggle and politics between three families. This movie opens with a group of
people with guns attacking the house of Faizal Khan to kill him and his family.
They fire hundreds of rounds of fire and bombard the house, though no one dies.
Expect violence. What else can we expect? The movie goes into a flashback and
shows where it all started. At the very beginning, it was a struggle between
two Muslim castes, ‘Pathan and Qurasi '. Sahid Khan, who was a Pathan, used to
loot trains in the name of Sultana Daku, as he used to think that the real
Sultana Daku was dead. But he was still alive, and he was Qurasi. When Sultana
came to know about Sahid, he attacked Sahid’s group and killed everyone but Sahid
and one of his friends, who somehow managed to save their lives. The next day,
Sultana told them that if they didn’t leave Wasseypur, he would kill his whole
family. Sahid's friend and her wife went to Dhanbad, and Sahid started to live
as a normal citizen and started working in coal mines under Ramadhir Singh. One
day, when Sahid was working in the mines, his friend came and informed him that
his wife was going to give birth and that she was in a very serious condition.
Sahid requested the conductor, but the conductor refused to let him go, so he
smashed the head of the conductor on the wall and went to the door guard and
asked him to let him go. The doorkeeper also refused, but Ramadhir came and
ordered the guard to let him go. After reaching home, he saw that his wife was
dead and that she had given birth to a boy. The next day, Sahid went to the
mines and killed the doorkeeper by smashing a stone on his head because,
because of the doorkeeper, Sahid failed to see his wife for the last time.
Violence was a prominent theme in the movie; killing and abusive language are
all over the movie, and all of these were happening in colonial India. After
independence, Ramadhir Singh became the owner of five to six coal mines and
hired Sardar to threaten the workers. Sahid fired whole villages as the workers
refused to work. The main goal of Sahid was to kill Ramadhir and get all of his
mines, but Ramadhir came to know about his plan and killed him. He also sent
people to kill his son, Sardar Khan, and his friend, but they failed. Sardar
Khan learned about his father’s murderer and took an oath to kill him.
looting the petrol pumps of Ramadhir Singh.
But when Ramadhir came to know about the real identity of Sardar, the reason
for violence and killing changed; previously, it was for livelihood and money,
but now it was only for revenge. Later, Sardar came back to Wasseypur and
started a war against the Qurasi, who later allied with Ramadhir. In the end,
Sardar failed to kill Ramadhir, and the Qurasi leader Sultan murdered Sardar
Khan.
This is one of the most popular movies of the 21st century. It earned a huge amount of money at the box office and was a huge success. The violence and killing shown in this movie are far different from contemporary movies. The characters are not someone with huge bodies and six-pack abs and with modern guns and bombs; most of the time, Desi Katta and hand-made bombs are used, though later on modern guns came into the scene.The female characters in the movie are not less important than the male characters. We see the women of ‘Gangs of Wasseypur" screaming and dying of childbirth, elaborately cursing out their faithlessness, whoring husbands, and threatening their rivals with violent death. In a scene, the wife of Sardar Khan was seen threatening the police because they came to her house to search Sardar at night.The elder son of Sardar Khan tried to stop the violence, but the leader of the Qurasi sultan refused to do so and killed her sister and husband just because they were from a rival family.In a scene, Azgar, the friend of Sardar Khan, was seen chopping a man of Ramadhir Sing, and the police only found a finger of that dead man. The scene itself is very disturbing; Azgar was completely blood-soaked and cutting the hand of that man. if we take a deeper look, the violence in Gangs of Wasseypur is designed in a way to draw attention to itself. People don’t die instantly after getting shot. It's raw. The violence works as a pay-off; the time of death is elongated for dramatic effect
Pushpa
The Telugu language
film Pushpa: The Rise, directed by
Sukumar and featuring Allu Arjun as the protagonist, is about a labourer who
rises to fame and joins the red sander syndicate. The protagonist's name is
Pushpa, and he is fearless in his pursuit of ultimate power and domination. He
reminds his opponents throughout the film that he is Pushpa the fire, not
Pushpa the flower. It's the prototypical "masala" picture, complete
with famous monologues and slow-motion action sequences. However, with a
running time of 178 minutes, it seemed a little long in some places. Even
though Pushpa worked as a labourer at a mill in his early years, he did not
believe in paying respect to the mill owner for providing him with a fair paycheck.
He worked for money, not for respect. As a result, the film establishes his
boldness from the start. People knew he was going to make it big in life, so he
joined Kesava, intending to gain a few more cash by being Pushpa's trusted man. Pushpa's mother was a widower, and because he
was born out of wedlock, he has forbidden the surname of his father from
boyhood. Pushpa Raj, a man without a surname and so casteless, was known as
Pushpa Raj since boyhood. He was emotionally close to his mother and wanted to
make her happy after all she had gone through. One day, he joined the coolies
in charge of supplying the red sanders unlawfully trafficked from Andhra
Pradesh's Seshachalam Hills. Pushpa discovered at a party that Mangalam Srinu,
the dealer and manager of the red sanders syndicate, was paying them far less
than the cut he received for each tonne. He later spoke with Srinu and asked
for a fair share for the Reddy brothers, but
Srinu refused.
Pushpa made the
decision to sell the goods directly in Chennai. He agreed to be paid 1.5 crores
for each tonne sold. He also struck an agreement with the Reddy brothers to
earn half of the shares. Srinu was enraged by the news, and he attacked the
Reddy brothers, but Konda Reddy was shot. Pushpa was successful in saving Jakka
Reddy. For assaulting the Reddys, he eventually shot Srinu's brother-in-law.
The syndicate became distrustful as a result of this episode.
Bhumireddy Siddappa
Naidu, the MP, attempted to heal the relationship by gathering all syndicate
members at Konda Reddy's burial. Pushpa recounted how Srinu was charging far
too much, which culminated in the confrontation. He informed the MP that if he
was appointed manager of the syndicate, he would ensure that the rate stayed
constant and that the MP would earn a far larger portion than he had previously
received. Pushpa was declared and sworn in as the manager of the Red Sanders
syndicate as a result of this.
It is a matter of debate that
violence in Pushpa is Justified or
not but it shows that through bad path one can also achieve success and
authorities never touch them which may influence small kid and youth to think
that only bad paths lead to success. In south film industry there are many such
movies which promotes violence. Be it Bollywood or Tollywood excessive use of
drug ,vilonce affects the society from many angels specially it leaves a deep
impact on Youths mind.
CONCLUSION
Whether this
amount of action is necessary for the film, filmmakers are well aware that they
will get footfalls only if they have such violence, though they always consider
this unreal. They forgot to think about how these films will impact children,
teenagers, young adults, and other small-town audiences. They show that a man,
after doing all the wrong things, never gets caught by the police and enjoys a
life with money and power, which always attracts a teenager or young adult. To
cite a few examples According to the reports of NDTV after getting influenced by Pushpa, a few minors killed an innocent
to become gangsters, and they also filmed the whole incident to upload on
YouTube so that they could become famous as well In another
incident, a smuggler tried to smuggle red sandalwood worth Rs. 2.45 CR. Just
like Allu Arjun’s Pushpa
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