10th Class Telugu Movie
In his eagerness to placate the youth, the director of the movie 10th Class, has forgotten his social responsibilities and basic ethos of life. Pandering to such cheap ideas to please the young males shows the lack of character in movie making on part of the filmmaker.
The misdirected bravado with which the hero Bharat, expresses his love for a married woman, both in the face of the lady’s lack of interest and in front of her husband, amounts to goondaism and is downright disgusting. Fine, if creativity requires that such a scene be depicted so be it. But the utter lack of remorse by the character and the handling of the entire issue glorifying it, are highly deplorable. The excuse that since the character is studying in 10th class and hence is immature to fully comprehend the implication of his actions is plausible. But the tragedy is, the issue is glorified and later in the movie, the hero refers to the married woman as a lover. The result: the young ones watching the movie go home with impression that it’s alright (if studying in 10th Class) to barge in to somebody’s house and profess love for a married woman in front of her husband and even threaten the husband.
Movies try to please the audience; there is nothing wrong in that. But movies should not digress from social norms. Filmmakers have a greater responsibility to ensure that good values are imparted through movies. In the eagerness to create sensationalism and attract audience it’s pathetic that directors would stoop to such low levels.
Moreover there has been an attempt to preach in no uncertain terms that falling in love and eloping away from home is easy but then starting a family and sustaining it is difficult. But the movie does just the opposite of what it preaches. It shows that if you run away from your home you might end up getting help from a well-heeled friend, who would lend you a posh flat and her dad would offer a plum job as a director in making advertisements. Wonder if eloping and making advertisements are that easy.
In so many ways the movie 10th Class talks about good things. The Indian superstition sneezing only once before any action would prove to be inauspicious is rubbished in the movie. When a young girl falls in love with a married Srinu and confesses her feelings to her elder sister, there is good counsel followed by sane advice that prompts the girl to apologize. Quite appreciable and sends out the right signals to the young ones. The real life like depiction of the scenes is laudable too.
This is a good movie but for the depiction of unconscionable glorification of love by force under the pretext of immaturity.
