WHERE IS HERO IN HINDI CINEMA. WHERE R THEY GONE ??

The concept of Hero itself is personification of contemporary moral values i.e., the moral values of the contemporary society decide the “hero ship” of that time. It means by studying the hero (of novel, story, art forms, cinema, etc.,) we can learn the moral values of the time or vice versa. Moral values always changes with time. We can see the same in Hindi Film “Heroes”.

Who was a hero in Hindi films – he was a hard working, truthful, strong, handsome, kind, action orientated ‘MAN. He also represents a particular class (with all its qualities). In most of the films, Raj Kapoor, Guru datt, Manoj Kumar, Dileep Kumar, etc., represented those heroes. After independence the thirst for social change were seen their characters. In that period the class difference between the hero and Villon is the main stage of drama in many movies. Many of progressive artists came to film industry during that period.

But gradually that hero vanished to angry young man-who takes revenge against the prevailed corrupt society. The hope was changed to anger. “Amitab” was famous for such roles. Jitendra, Shatrughan sinha, Mithun etc., also played such roles.

Now due to globalization those heroes are also slowly vanishing. Now we do not know what should be the moral value of a hero. What should he stand for? The class struggle is almost vanished. Now we have heroes, who are very confused like us. What is right -what is wrong, he does not know. I am not saying whether it is good or bad, but it is the truth.