Burnt
When I first started work as a houseman, my Obstetrics and Gynae boss who is an Indian, at that time use to be totally against Indian movies. He blame them for the negative influence among the lower and middle income groups of Indians. As always though not a fan, took his sayings with a pinch of salt. “There must be some truth in that after having been in the service for more than 20years” I told myself.
I must say that there are some excellent Indian movies but a few compared to the hundreds produced. So few, that the hundreds that are shown seem to have more impact.
After having worked till date, I have come to agree with my boss. Shockingly, I am not alone. Many other Indians within the fraternity seem to say the same. Some even bar their children and teens from watching them. I have to agree — they tend to portray plenty of negativity for the youth. Obviously, too clean and much positivity is boring and will be a flop in the Indian movie industry.
Now with the introduction of soap operas things have got worse. But the rest of the community, I think do not agree with this view. But what if I were to say that certain acts are in particular almost exclusive among the indian community. Examples of these are drinking of paraquat, self burning, gansterism and many more.
Look at the pictures below:
That is a 17 year old boy who torched himself after pouring petrol over himself and sustained almost a 95% burn sparing only his feet. He feels like thick leather and he is charred. He will most likely succumb to this. How did he learn this and from where? why is it almost always involve an indian?
For me all Indian movies must be viewed with close supervision or barred especially to those below 21 years! What do you think?
October 25th, 2006 at 9:53 am
I have always believed this! This is sad.You know what? When I worked in Seremban hospital between 1991-1995 I have tested so many paraquat poisoning cases. Everyday there would be at least 1 case. Most of the positive cases were among young female Indians from the estates. Their excuses were failure in love, husband had run off or having affairs.
There was one case which particularly stuck in my memory where the wife was doused by kerosene and torched by her husband. He was apparently having an affair and did not want the wife in the way. She was fighting for her life in ICU but managed to tell her mother before she died after 3 days.
This was in the Malay Mail.
How do you educate the parents baffles me as the soaps are too good to miss! The soaps are so addictive! The children are watching the show as parents are too involved in the soaps or movies! I guess since this is mainly an Indian problem, MIC need to take pains to educate the people since they say they have better access to the grassroots! I guess the leaders are more interested in putting their mouth at where the money is!
I have barred Indian movies to my young children and I myself have no interest to watch this shows unless they are good movies.