What is the impact of cinema on society?

Cinema is one of the mass media, so it’s immense penetration among the public. What we see on cinema is later followed in the real life. A simple example is the hairstyle of Salman in the film Tere Nam that became quite a rage. The same is true for clothing the actors don, their body language, certain words they use and their life style in the movies are closely imitated by the public.  What is more important is inner change than the outer one. It’s of no matter of concern if a teenager wears the bell bottoms like his favourite star does but it’s wrong if he follows the same crazy, life threatening steps to impress the girl he wants. Many times, people fail to distinguish between reel life and real life. They forget that what they see is scripted, for entertainment, not worthy to be taken seriously. If they don’t, they could meet the disaster.

It’s sad to note that good messages are not imbibed as faithfully as the bad ones. Or it’s only the few intellectuals who care to give it a serious thought. The kind of cinema viewed by the mass is always the nonsense, which they treat it as gem.

The other way around is ‘society impacts the cinema.’ Because, society is such, cinema merely follows it. It was the correct excuse from the makers of Delhi Belly in terms of the foul language employed in the movie.