India looked so much cleaner in old movies

Have you noticed this? that in old movies from the 1960's and 70's, streets and cities in India looked so clean and pollution free compared to the dirt/pollution today.

Was it actually like that? were the Indian cities much cleaner then?

Yes I noticed it in song Mein chali mein chali

Population was not as high as now.

Cleaner, classier, more beautiful, less populated, buildings were architecturally great not cheap looking and safe.

Yes in 1940s and 50s and 60s people were way more cleaner

They do not throw garbage on roads or spit or dirty public property

That is also because immigration was very less

People stayed in same city all life so they had attachment to that place and kept it neat

Now people hop from one place to another they have no love or care for that place

Otherwise also people 60-80 years back were more hygenic and cleaner than now

Like our grandparents they are so much more neat and clean whether in kitchen or house how they keep compared to our gen

That also because now gen goes to work 10 to 12 hours a day compared to old times

So they have no energy left to do house work or keep clean may be

Yes..Due to great increase in population & material progress , much more polluted & pandemonic now (even a city like Chandigarh though still much better than all major UP towns including Noida imo)..In that backdrop , the enhanced,conspicuous development in cities has just been gaudy than anything else..

Originally posted by: Tippy-top

Population was not as high as now.

1960 - 450m

3x population increase in just 60 years.

Even bigger growth in the cities - Mumbai from 4.5m to 20m+ , Delhi - 2.3m to 30m+