Glamorization of Crime and Obscenity

Glamorization of Crime and Obscenity

by Nisaar Y. Nadiadwala on Thursday, August 18, 2011 at 11:44am

  

Two years back  a grue some murder dominated the National newspapers of India. A navy officer flew at midnight hour from a city around 1500 miles from Mumbai and landed up  at his girlfriend's flat. He caught her with another man who was an executive in a local media.  As per the reports, the two men+ got into a fight and the navy man stabbed the boyfriend killing him.. the cruel story did not end here. The killer cut his body into pieces and packed in a bag and threw it away.

     Now a producer from Bollywood is going ahead with the love story and has almost completed his movie. But naturally the movie will have songs, romance and everything that attracts audience. Inother words a gruesome crime will be decorated with music songs and good looking actors and the murder will be beautified with masculine men indulging into fights. 

    Long back in April 27, 1959 a "crime of passion" sent shockwaves rippling through Bombay. A Navy commander Nanavati shot dead Prem Ahuja, a businessman and a philandering high society playboy Nanavati's who was  alluring English wife Sylvia. Play boy, in a modest man's language is a fornicator who corrupts other men's wives, and daughters and then goes away looking other prey. Within few years a director from Bollywood made  a movie on the love triangle and it was beautified with songs and romance to attract the audience. 

    After all, movies are not made to serve society but to fill pockets of the producers. As Mahesh Bhatt once said, " we are shopkeeprs of entertainment, we keep those goods that are in demand....

   When crime and fornication is glamorized and presented  to the masses then it helps promotion of crime and immodesty in the society. There was a movie on underworld dons and mafia and one of the song had "maar de goli bheje mein" (hit the bullet in his brain) the message is a violent one but it passed away as an entertaining song with many young school boys finding it good to hear and murmur. A boy in Mumbai arrested for stealing a motor bike confessed before the Police that it was the movie " Dhoom II " that inspired him to steal bikes...

   The best way or a ready made kit to corrupt a society is to introduce a popular character as a criminal or fornicator and market him as a mass promotion product.... people will not object because everybody sees it as an entertainment. Through entertainment every bad thing including smoking has been promoted to a mass level. Some one should ask the Governments that if they ban smoking why not adultery and crimes in movies too? 

   Nisaar Nadiadwala speaks and writes on socio-educatinal issues from Islamic perspective. He can be reached at nisaar_yusuf@yahoo.com

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