Should national anthem be played in cinema halls?

Patriotism comes out of love and respect for one's nation and cannot be force-fed to anyone just by making them stand up while the national anthem plays and the national flag is in view. Cinemas aren't the right place to show patriotism. Cinemas are a place for entertainment and playing national anthem before some adult (18+) movies totally disrespects it.

National anthems are to be played at formal occasions. Patriotism can also be displayed by loving one's country with open eyes and not only by playing the national anthem at cinemas.

I do respect my national anthem and I'm proud to be an Indian.

YES. Our National Anthem reflects our culture. It is the pride of our country. Playing National Anthem in cinema halls is a great step towards evoking a sense of respect and responsibility for the country in the minds of the citizens.

It connects them to their country. It is necessary sometimes to remind the people of their responsibility towards the country and also towards others. National Anthem has so many meanings linked to it, the main being that 'we all are one. ' Everybody is equal in this country irrespective of their caste or creed & the nation should 'rise forever'.

Hello everyone.

In my opinion playing National anthem is a good initiative by GOV of India, since almost every family goes to watch movie and when national anthem is playing kids also become aware of our sense of pride and they have a eagerness for asking question about it.

One thing I want to ask everybody is that how many times in a year you sing our national anthem, so playing it is a good initiative for developing patriotism in people.

Also no matter where and what conditions it is played it is our fundamental duty to respect it.

With my point of view it should not be played because we should do everything in required time its not to do formality for that. Actually theaters are the place for enjoying movies not for showing patriotism. Though if it is played also then also some people sit and enjoy movie but don't respect for that some people eat there food while national anthem is played very few of them stand and give respect to that so no need for playing it.

And we should leave this decision on people only we must show the value of national anthem to the people towards our nation.

Thank you friends.

Namaskar to all Indians who consider playing national anthem in cinema hall is not the right way of showing respect to our Mother India.

As per some of beloved Indians patriotism cannot be forced and as per them playing national anthem in hall is like forcing people to show respect unwillingly to mother India, so my first question to these people is,

We Indians are independent today, can walk freely, talk freely and live life, so whats wrong in showing the respect our land where we stand.

Yea, cinema hall is source of entertainment, but if we start the fun standing for our nation, one should feel pride.

Talking about those who think patriotism is in heart, that's for every Indian, but few things we do because its adds to our confidence of being Indian like playing National anthem.

If one can stand in queue for getting tickets of movie, then whats wrong to stand for our Country. One must have seen while the National Anthem is played, it always shows the group of armies who dedicate their whole life protecting National Flag, so I find no inconvenience in showing honor for our National Flag.

There are many things which we dislike, or which are not required still we do it as they are required for living.

We should feel happy that today we got National Anthem only because we are independent, if suppose we wouldn't have been independent, there wouldn't be cinema hall, no source of entertainment and above all no :freedom of Speech".

So at the end I would say "One should feel pride in being independent and show respect to National Anthem" even in cinema halls.

Thanks.

"52 seconds" never had made people so judgmental, I am completely shocked to see that most so called patriotic people here thinks playing national anthem at cinema halls is completely bad idea; even they have many intellectual reasons too, hats off to them.

Now, when I have ever been to cinema halls I have seen about 98% of people standing and even half of them citing it too with proper respect and love, so that 2% doesn't comes under unpatriotic people, and even that 98% doesn't proves to be a patriotic one, but, the thing is; why we are so much worried for standing up for 52 seconds and showing respect, yeah. Yeah, one don't need to show respect like this but still Why NOT, what is so horrifying and dreadful if it is played, it is our National anthem brother. You can never rationalize your love to mother nation. It is by heart and whenever we are asked to we should do whatever in the name of our mother nation.

Now, when it was played at schools it was also not compulsory (same arguments can be raised for that also) then too but we did daily and that only infused us with the unconditional love for our nation and yes, Tell me friends after school how much you have listened it or stand for it, very rare so, if you are getting an opportunity to stand for it or even just sit and listen with people all around you makes us feel united, makes us feel connected, makes us feel together.

The gooze bombs and butterflies which I always felt while standing for national anthem is unexplainable and I will always whenever, wherever it will be played and I know my fellow brothers and sisters will do the same.

Jai hind.

I think playing national anthem in cinema hall is somewhere diminishing the dignity of national anthem. As people goes cinema for entertainment. And while standing for national anthem only one thing would be running in his mind i.e. when will it finish and I sit.

Yes it should be played in the cinema hall because if we implement such kind of things in our day to day life then there is a rise patriotism we learnt so many things from our environment. Cinema is the place where people often come there so it's good to play national anthem in our cinema halls.

According to me national anthem should not be played in cinema halls become everything should be done at the correct place and at correct time and cinema halls are not the place to show patriotism. People go to cinema halls to have some fun time after there busy and hectic schedule so they should not be forced there to show patriotism by standing compulsorily. Not only this, but as we all know that national anthem should be sung under the sky not under the roof of any room.

We need to stand up when the national anthem is played, absolutely no questions about that. But do we need to play National Anthem in movie halls to instigate patriotism in patrons. That's debatable.

People go to movie halls to get entertained and not to display their patriotism. In my personal opinion we should not trivialize our National Anthem by playing it at every single movie halls across the nation and then start debating whether people should stand up or not.

For me Patriotism is my personal pride and National Anthem is too sacred to be politicized.