- A survey conducted by Samir Parikh among 1,000 students in private schools of New Delhi and in the suburban towns of Gurgaon and Noida reveals that as a large number of children in the 14-17 age group watch violent movies, they might be getting more aggressive.
Some facts of the survey:
- Boys - 79 per cent - enjoy watching violent movies, while 34 per cent of girls also love seeing such action-oriented films.
- 44 per cent of boys said they have the urge to hit or harm someone, while the figure was 32 per cent for girls.
- 35 per cent of boys feel that showing some force or bullying someone is important to make friends like them more. Around 24 per cent of girls agree with this.
- 31 per cent of boys said they know of someone being threatened or injured with a weapon in school while the figure is 22 per cent for girls.
- 53 per cent of boys said they felt safer when they are with their own gang or group in school. This is true for girls, too. About 45 per cent of girls said they feel protected in school if they are part of a group.
- The survey says feelings like physically harming someone score quite high among teenagers. "But it is not clear whether they actually act out their urge in harming someone."
- Many children shared their feeling of not wanting to go to school as they feel unsafe. This could also be because of bullying by others or the fear that they could be harmed.
Is this really happening because of violent movies only or is there something else also. The kind of video games one play or is it peer pressure to perform in an aggressive nature. Is it that that boys feel more masculine after showing aggressive behavior only? Or is it true only in metros ? What is it that is actually making such young teenagers become so aggressive, is it lack of parental attention or stress or what??? Somebody needs to address this problem and come out with a solution otherwise god forbids that day isnt far where carrying guns will be normal to school or hurting people becomes "COOL"....
oh yes, only a year back an 8-year old shot his batchmate! Apart from letting children take possession of guns, the bigger problem is when we think that such a young child could become so angry, and have the mind enough to shoot the other. All this may be largely attributed to the cinema. While we cannot ban violent films (which would actually be a pity!), it is parental control (which includes guidance at school) which can greatly give some solution. Unless the parents are vary of the threat which such exposure to violence has on their children (and do something about it), I dont think there's much which can be done by criticising the film makers.
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