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The Hindu
The Hindu
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Lakshmi Sundaram

Social responsibility of media

The entertainment media, both the big and small screens, has a social responsibility, but of late, I find that caution has been thrown to the winds.

The alphabet ‘V’ plays an important role in the scripts — violence, venom, vengeance and vendetta — so much so the films appear as a battle field, leaving the audience petrified as they leave the theatre.

Television is supposed to be a companion to old people confined to home. Unable to go out, they have serials as a main diversion, but here again the script is based on the alphabet ‘V’! The women are shown as having plenty of money in their handbags which they dole out to criminals who do their bidding to eliminate whoever they want to. Often, the script revolves around relatives of a sick old man or woman who plan all the wicked deeds, including mixing of drugs or some tablet in the food and drinks of the old.

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