Read the following passage and answer Questions.
1. Cinema has truly played a major role in changing our society. Patriotic movies make us remember to love our nation. Good comedy movies have treated many patients through laughter therapy. Adventure movies have given us a sense of adventure to explore new possibilities. There are many more:
2. In our society, there are many practices and traditions which are based on ignorance and have posed hurdles in the progress of our society. Rigidity of caste system, untouchability, dowry system and the purdah system have done enormous harm to our society. Cinema or films can do a lot to eradicate these evils. They can be used for promoting national integration, prohibition, inter-caste marriages, family planning, eradication of illiteracy, etc. Such themes can help in the transformation of our society. Cinema can be used as an instrument to help people get rid of obscurantism and also to guide them along the right path. It can help in removing ignorance from our society. Not only this, several much needed social reforms can be introduced and brought about with the help of the cinema.
3. The cinema exercises a great influence on the minds of the people. It has a great educative value. It can achieve splendid results in expanding education. There are certain subjects such as science and geography which can be taught more effectively with the help of cinema.
Choose the correct answer from options given below.
Which statement is false?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Film censor should never act in a responsible manner
The question asks for the false statement. The passage does not name censors or producers, so each statement has to be judged by what follows from it. The whole passage is about the great power of cinema over people's minds and its use for social good. Anyone who controls what films show, such as a film censor, must therefore act responsibly. A statement that a censor should never act responsibly goes against the spirit of the passage and against common sense, so it is false.
Why the Other Options are Incorrect?
Option 1: Producers have a responsibility towards society — Incorrect. Holds true: since cinema exercises a great influence on the minds of people, those who make films are responsible for what that influence does.
Option 3: Cinema can strongly influence society in both positive and negative ways — Incorrect. Holds true: the passage shows only the good side, such as removing ignorance, but a medium with a great influence on the mind can equally spread wrong ideas if it is misused.
Option 4: Sometimes a good cinema is more powerful than a book — Incorrect. Holds true: the passage says certain subjects, such as science and geography, can be taught more effectively with the help of cinema, so in some cases a film can do more than a book.