The movie impact...

The recent box-office hit, "Once upon a time in Mumbai" has surely won the hearts of many Indians, specially the Mumbaikers.
The movie features the very feared era of the 80s when underworld had a strong foot-hold in every nook-n-corner of Mumbai (then Bombay) streets. The complete film portrays the life of two very prominent mafias and their ladder towards the peak of crime. 
Great acting, superb storyline and commendable direction. 
Kudos for that!
But the obvious fact that we have happily missed is that, where on one hand the film has depicted real life story of dons like Haji Mustan and Dawood Ibrahim, on the other hand it has also glamorized crime in inexplicable ways. The audience gets intrigued, later sympathizes and finally comes to respect the character of "Sultan", who despite being a poor orphan, chased his dreams and became a powerful smuggler.
It is known that the Indian audience is very sensitive and gets easily influenced when it comes to Bollywood. It loves to adopt the reel life characters. When an entertaining movie like 3-Idiots can influence students to commit suicide; can't this, being a potential film, pave way for fresh criminal minds?
Join Underworld.....Money, Power and Respect will follow you.
Moreover the entry into the underworld has been rendered as easy and sure-shot path towards fame.
What's more? The 'good-man' , Sultan is at the end killed by the 'bad-man', Shoaib, and the city of Mumbai is doomed to the pits of hell. Quite opposite to the very famous Ramayana phrase, " Victory of good over evil", is'nt it?
Indian audience is largely influenced by what the actors do. For them the hero is the ultimate God. It is therefore quite dangerous to present a real life story in such a raw form. May be it was the requirement of the story, but glamorising crime and underworld has since long attracted many strayed youth towards this dark business..