1 month old macbook sounds like a hair blower while playing movies

Today for the first time I played a movie on my mac and it sounded like a hair dryer/blower during that time, is it normal?
Is there any option to reduce the fan noise?
Any tips or advice will be highly appreciated. Thanks.

It's normal.
The fans are cooling down the spinning DVD drive and the computer showing the movie.
If you load a YouTube movie, it'll probably do the same.

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