Arts as a Source of Entertainment

The first life in metros, the hustle-bustle of the cites, the scorching lights of the pubs and bars and within it the modern man. The picture would be so perfect in a painters canvas, but if the picture could be brought into reality, ask the man who was there in the picture, he undoubtedly would be trapped over there. The scene is actually very enervating and nerve-racking. In the busy lives of the people of the modern era, it is so very difficult to scrape a bit time for yourself and your family. The modern man is in such a rush to earn money and comfort for himself and for his family, that in a way he gets aloof from his own family without even realizing it and within a short span of time he becomes a cog in a machine.

To delineate oneself from this routine life, one takes the help of arts and entertainment. These helps in giving relief from the ever-increasing work load of the people. Arts and entertainment can be of various forms. It is not at all necessary that all the people of the universe have the same views about entertainment. One kind of act may not amuse the other necessarily. Thus the views vary from person to person. For somebody, painting may be of immense pleasure, for other person traveling would give him solace, for yet another person only sitting idly with the members of ones family would be ones world. Thus the form of entertainment has several faces.

With the boom and advancement of the technological and electronics age there have emerged other source of entertainment also. In the past ages there have always been the playwrights, the plays and open theaters. Shakespeare is supposed to be the best in the art of writing plays. His plays are till date brought alive in the theaters. But with the modern era plays have been sent to the back stage and their place have been taken by the television and the motion picture. These have now become the best means of entertainment. These have become so famous can be seen from the fact that due to there popularity government has even imposed entertainment taxes on these, and the state is earning quite a handful from this kind of taxes. The popularity of the television soaps can be seen by the TRP rates of the “saas-bahu” sagas. People are glued to their television sets the moment these soaps get started. People make a cocoon around themselves through these and they can even identify with the characters. Thus these have become the modern source of entertainment, not to forget about the computer games.

But one should give it a real-though that are we not missing our culture, the folk lore, the folk songs and dances which had been once so rich source of arts and entertainment. These arts are dying away in the backdrop of the modern age and the need of the hour today is to bring it back to the main stream as a form of entertainment, so that the coming generation could be proud of the age old art and culture.