Tamil Cinema is notoriously famous for one brand of story being told, again and again. A very ordinary looking "hero", who would actually be serving tea in a roadside tea stall, if he were to sheer luck not enter the film industry, would fall in love with a very beautiful girl, and chase her all over town to even the forests, and propose his love. The girl would naturally frown at him, but later "realize' his "true affection" for the hero, and eventually accept his love.
One horrible actor, Dhanush is guilty of bringing this theme, and there have been others who have faithfully imitated this formula.
However, in a State where the Cinema has a huge influence on youth, particularly men, the worst has recently happened -- a very ordinary looking Ramkumar, who had not even completed his Engineering degree, try to woo a girl called Swati, working in Infosys Technologies, in Chennai. The girl seemed to have mocked at his physical appearance and our hero had gone to ridiculous levels to look good. But the girl had just accepted him as a friend.
Unable to win her "love", this rascal has murdered her in broad daylight in the ever busy Nungambakkam station.
How should we go about reforming the society and stopping the bad influence of cinema? It was the case of this Ramkumar, obviously taking lessons from Tamil Cinema, but the same could be true of Telugu Cinema or even Kannada movies.
The point is, apart from moral education that is nowadays neglected badly, what are the various remedies possible, to reform young men and their fickle minds? How do we ensure that another Swati is not killed in the very same fashion?