Do Terror Movies Inspire Terror Masterminds?
By Madhusree Chatterjee and Jivraj Burman New Delhi/Mumbai Do movies on terrorism really influence the psychology of the masterminds of terror? Could Saturday’s heartless serial bombings in Ahmedabad, including in hospitals where the wounded were being rushed to, have been influenced by the recently released Hindi film “Contract”? While the older generation argues that violent reality movies have an impact on the impressionable youth, others scoff at the idea that the terror masterminds behind the Ahmedabad bombings and at Bangalore the day before took a leaf out of Ram Gopal Verma’s action thriller “Contract”. In the movie released July 18, the villain Sultan plans to set off low-intensity blasts in crowded areas so that when the injured are rushed to the hospitals for first aid, they would trigger bigger explosions to maximize damage. The Ahmedabad blasts followed the “Contract” plot every closely – a fact that even the police has reportedly admitted. “I admit that the Ahmedabad blas
