Impact of Cinema on Society Reformation or Deformation?

INDIAN CINEMA has virtually become a parallel culture. Talk of India with a foreigner and debate virtually centres around Indian films - Amitabh Bachhan

Is it not a folly to expect the faithful depiction of the society in the movie(s)?
To expect cinema to be realistic is just like expecting literary works to be like history books.

The theory of Imitation.

Poetry does not faithfully depict the reality, says Aristotle. There is no slavish imitation of reality But it is the addition of something more to reality, and this something more is the same reason for why we enjoy movies, which are sometimes just cinematography of lifesketches.

Why do we go to the cinema?

To see what we see everyday? We want something different from our usual, day-to-day life. We may feel it uninteresting if the same usual life of hero is depicted in the movies too. The new events, happenings and unusual things make us think in different way. People dont like it if everything in the movie is same as there is in their real life. It is a pleasure to see the hero doing things which we want to but can not. Even Songs.

The function of cinema

It is to delight and instruct. The prior function of any movie is to delight the audience and then to instruct, for movies are also taken as a form of literature. Indian Cinema acts as a prism to manifest Indian culture in the spectrum of all its hues and shades.

From the ordinary to the extra-ordinary

Black(Helen Kellar) Devdas(Sharat Chandra Chatoppadhyay novella Phir Milenge (the victimized) AWednesday (anti-corruption) Taare Zameen Par (eye-opener) Peepli Live (satire) Aandhi (Indira Gandhi) Shakti, Zanjeer, Sharabee (Angry Young Man and society (authority)), Devdas)

Conflict between individual and

Cinema Impacts on Linguistic Trends of Society

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Jadu ki Jhappi Dhen te nan Dhin chaak Bindaas Jhakaas Tension nahi lene ka Ae Ganpat

Demand of time
Indian film industry is the largest in world, churning(Mixing) out an average of 800 films per year. The audience consists of an estimated 3.6 billion people with 14 territories(Bollywood specific)within India and 52 counties across globe. There are global-in-outlook,Indian-in-ethos films byYashRaj Banners Sharukh Khan starring Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham, Darr, Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayengeetc.