VIOLENCE IN PASHTO MOVIES AND ITS IMPACT ON YOUTH BEHAVIOR: A CASE STUDY OF MARDAN CITY

Abstract

The current study aims to explore the violence in Pashto movies and its impact on youth in Mardan city. Movie plays a paramount role in shaping people behavior. Similarly violence in Pashto movies also molds the behavior of Pakhtun youth. Writers through movies construct its own standard of reality which viewers follow in their actual social life. It is evident that Pashto movies propagate messages of violence which has direct impact on those youth who watch it. For this purpose data is collected from eight viewers and five nonviewers where the saturation point took place. This study is qualitative in nature. Study found that viewers are more exposed towards Pashto violent movies which influenced them for excessive use of Kalashnikov; make them vulgar and immoral in their social life. Data also indicated that viewers are more inclined towards committing crimes than non-viewers because of their exposure to Pashto movies.