Why does the society allow this kind of wasteful activity at a very high cost ignoring essential problems of the maases? Is it only to allow teenagers to have fun in public or to make cinema people
rich robbing common man's share?
Rational thinking is a sign of human development.

Dear Ezhil,

«Why does the society allow this kind of wasteful activity»

This is not a matter for the so-called "society": it is a matter for parents, who are the only legitimate party to allow or disallow their children to do things.

If I had to be a parent to a teenager these days, then I would first need to plough through a long list of worse things before reaching that "cinema" item near the bottom.

One alternative is to provide youth with a similar venue like a cinema where they have the privacy of sitting in the dark in a similar fashion, just without the movie!

And BTW, most activities performed these days by both children and adults, are wasteful anyway. So long as others are not harmed, people will just have to learn from their mistakes.

it is a matter for parents
Yuyutsu,
Well, yes & no. Education lacking in sense & economic woes & most of all social engineering by way of unhinged welfare groups more often than not persecute parents who try to counter outside influences such as the Woke & LGBT outfits.
Give parents the opportunity to be parents & most of these cranks would disappear in no time & kids will be normal again.

Dear Indyvidual,

Without prejudice, it ought to be the parents and them alone who choose the appropriate school(s) for their children.
You may or may not like what they teach there, but unless these are your own children, all that is none of your business.

Didn't the Iranians use Rambo movies to pump up their soldiers before battles? Where is the morality there? Isn't cinema more a tool that gets used by all sorts of people for all sorts of purposes rather than conforming to a very limited view of it being a corrupting western influence?

There was a time when some believed that the written word would bring about a dumbing down of society. Perhaps cinema is intrinsically no different from any other form of human expression?

"This is not a matter for the so-called "society": it is a matter for parents, who are the only legitimate party to allow or disallow their children to do things"

Individual patents and their children do not live in isolation. They are very much part of the society. What is happening in the society and environment will have its impact on parents and their children. Cinema is a highly addiction forming media and immature children will certainly be influenced beyond their parental control. Devilish minds make Cinema to enrich themselves at the cost of overall welfare of the society. This was probably not the idea of cinema in the beginning.