Nahulaa and CRY CRY movies
Nahulaa ..a famous dhivehi novelist ,..who turned out to be a movie director and now a co-producer who owns a studio.This lady have one strong weapon,which she uses to get her movies and stories to be a BIG HIT...That is the use of extremely emotional scenes..The common viewers for dhivehi movies have been women...(specially those in thier 30's)..so all she had to do is ...make e'm cry..to do this she put these scenes.Some of which wud harm any one psychologically...now what about our young generations?? The Academy of Pediatrics says “More than one thousand scientific studies and reviews conclude that significant exposure to media violence increases the risk of aggressive behavior in certain children, desensitizes them to violence and makes them believe that the world is a ‘meaner and scarier’ place than it is.” ...do we want this when the crime rates are increasing above levelgoing outta our reach now??now what about ... the hate these movies create???When the villain is shown in a nahulaic-dhivehi movie..the viewers are seen burning in hatred!One instance that brought the worry of violence in media is the Columbine incident. The two young men that committed this act of violence were said to have played numerous hours of violent video games. Their exposure to violence is said to have been the cause since the children involved in Columbine came from secure home environments with active parental influence.Now what about that?!Maldivian children dont grow up in very secure environments normally...but rather with broken families and a corrupt society!!!For Nahula and the likes of her the main idea is to play with the emotions of viewers. Do the sadistic pleasure seeking directors and producers of these movies want that the viewers should start crying from the begining onwards and if they are unable to shed enough tears when it ends. they should howl and scream nearing mid-night watching absolutely mindless and endless movie, ‘naaummeedhu’ . God knows which society or culture does these movies depict? Definitely, it has got nothing Maldivian in it.But it sure does add many problems into the Maldivian society.Especially to the problems within families...Many women do copy these movie characters when they face some family problems..and what we maldivians call 'fanihedhun' is also played within families...Children get emotional easily...More and more sterotypes are born...One is that 'dhon amaa vaanee dhon niyandhurakashey'..which roughly means that; not a single stepmother can be gud to her step chlidren..maybe these directors got the idea from the old fairytale Cinderella...Other streotypes include women are to cry in lonliness..now that these Maldivian directors are copying hindi teledrama series' it is common that a man is slapped on his face several times..but never responds..something like what oprah tries to create in our minds..men are violent ppl sometimes..but to make them care we dont need to create movies with women slapping on a man's face..what we need is understanding.Women do cry..but men too cry..we dont have to picture dat the only ppl who cry is women.More and more ppl..blame them selves easily and cry in lonliness...as the heroine in the movies do ....One of nahulaa'z latest movies..'zuleykhaa'..shows a horrible scene in a song...where a young girl is shown sleeping on a 'fahjehi endhu' or a traditional foldable bed. What happens next is that a relative..(i think it's the step mother this time also) pushes her off the bed..and the little girl fells on the ground weeping... the face of that women is shown to be full of anger (for that child)...now this is too much..Children are innocent and every one knows that.But when we show a child thrown off from her bed for nothing..whats the use of the loabivaashey loabidheyshey stuff?!!?? These are scenes that are to be censored too... its not only what the Mullahs at mathee majilis find out to be sexually arousing (what makes thier P**** jump)..that have to be censored!!!But anything that hurts our culture and the societies moral values!The viewers are forced to watch a xeroxed copy of the same idea...again and again.The story is just the same. Leave aside instruction and the message, the movies are totally devoid of any entertainment. The major part of these movies goes into ‘heynakathuge vaarey hen karuna elhun’ i.e. lamenting, wailing, sobbing and sighing. Be it a male or a female, every one is getting sentimental, ‘semi mental’, impulsive and irrationally and unbelievably emotional.Now nahula's new movie 'keikuraanan' -I shall rather show patience and wait (suffering from this pain..i guess)-is to be started soon after ramadan...Doing it in her own studio this Lady is supected to create more emotioanal stuff this time...she had said in an interview to haveeru that this time only two months from the day it starts; the movie would be complete and ready for premiere...this sure means it wud be yet another easy-to-make-crycry-movie.Sadly enough, there is total absence of wit and good humour which makes u at least chuckle if not laugh. ‘These movies should not be banned' . The viewers have a choice. If they don’t like them they dont watch em' argue the defenders of these movies. O.K. That means the movie makers or media in general have no social responsibility of giving a better choice to their viewers. only with this type of crycry movies released ,what choice an ordinary entertainment seeking viewer has? Making money , no doubt, is the obvious aim of these movies producers and the directors(specially nahulaa), but it should not be at the cost of society’s moral health. Just imagine the illiterate or semiliterate people who are unable to differentiate between right and wrong, or the young children with impressionable minds. With certain people tendency to do evil is comparatively stronger. Suggesting them ways and means which lead to crime can have devastating effects. What women in negative roles often do reflects not ordinary family jealousies , annoyance or hatred, but they commit hard core criminal punishable offences. The movie makers often claim that they teach Maldivian values. Which values these movies preach is a question I would like to ask the money thirsty movie makers? If they lack in creativity, they should read some good literature. They will get plenty of material and ideas.They should immediately stop copying the hindi 'kkusum like' serials..Then they will do a service to society by entertaining and educating people. That will be a reward by itself. ..even though my target this time is nahulaa.all dhivehi film directors , producers and government authuorities concerned ;should take notice of these issues and consider what is better for themselves and also for the Maldivian society in general.
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