Poverty and the multiplex movies

Before reading this piece, please read Swati's response to my previous blog. I'm not going to argue with Swati in this blog. I've never argued with her. Apart from admiring how beautifully she puts across her ideas, I have a few addendums.

I was not drawing any conclusions with Hindu's new design. But this has been my nagging question for a long time. The answer is perhaps what Swati has suggested somewhere inside her reply. Poverty has taken out the sense of beauty and leisure from our lives. We seem to be quite busy earning our dhal and chaval. In Maslow's hierarchy of needs, there's a three layer of gap between physiological and congnitive needs. Congnitivity is where the appreciation of novelty falls under. That's quite a distance to bridge.

That tendency is perhaps what is reflecting in our dirty pavements, torn, metal pieces hanging out of public transports, apathetic education system, graceless, insensitive movies, and drab, sexist novels.

Interestingly, to support this phenomena, any slick movie with a designer presentation is quickly termed as 'multiplex movie'. This is to indicate that such flicks are meant for people who have enough money to worry about gay relationships and the problem of the party culture in the cities.