Here's a 'bashing' question.

Page

Next Last

Marybarton

@Marybarton

Rocker

+ 8

Posted: 13 years ago

I am going to ask a rhetorical question with many and no answers. It was asked by my present favorite actor, Michael Fassbender of the Western, not Asian world. It is not just an Asian thing.

This level of violence is okay to show a young audience, but no intimacy is allowed. Why?

It's not just about this show. It is not a negative, bashing comment as I am sure many fawners will cry about. It is a simple question about media and violence as we see across the board.

Yes, I get the intimacy and conservative caution against polluting young minds. But studies have proven that violence pollutes too and more gravely.

Firing a gun, kidnapping, is more rare to us. Intimacy, it's just something most people experience sooner or later within or outside relationships, marriage, etc. I am not exactly flying the flag for sexual freedom or asking people to change their cultural views, neither do Hollywood's romance directors.

Personally, I wouldn't mind a kid watching a loving Arnav-Khushi kiss. I would however mind the kid watching Arnav in a face mask being kicked around. All Arnav lacked was an orange suit and he would be truly objectified.

But now - Romance can be censored, not violence.

Edited by Marybarton - 13 years ago

Quote

Frequent Posters

Marybarton

@Marybarton

Rocker

+ 8

Posted: 13 years ago

People you must have an opinion.

Quote

Looks like you are new here. Register for free, learn and contribute.

Ashu

@Ash95

Dazzler

+ 5

Posted: 13 years ago

Romance increases the population

Violence decreases the population

😉

Quote

Nightingale...

@Nightingale...

Dazzler

+ 2

Posted: 13 years ago

I do know many hollywood n bollywood movies that have accessive violence are rated R. But i think the difference in treatment has to do more with tradition n previous generation's outlook towards the two type of scenes. Violence in the past(n present) was always seen as heroic whereas intimacy was always sth done behind curtains n shied from...i guess the ideologies have remained in indian tv serials.
Thats jus what i think it may b.

Quote

Sunara

@princessunara

Trailblazer

+ 8

Posted: 13 years ago

well one answer..we Asians have not yet let go of the age old hypocritical beliefs and still prefer to hush whenever sexual context is broken to the forefront..and brush it under the carpet..

violence..i have always been anti-violence persona..i get sick seeing blood n grime even on TV!! i get nightmares when i see extreme violence that since i was a teen i have been careful not to watch too much violence that i usually close my eyes when real corpses, etc r shown on news.. so in that sense i am extremely against the current situation..
but the level of stuff we saw on the show today..um..i am not exactly categorizing it under extreme violence..somehow the level we saw today was totally fine by me..
i can't pin point it which level of either is ok..but IPKKND hasn't crossed the limit in either aspect..

in the end it all comes down to 'each to ur own'..

Edited by princessunara - 13 years ago

Quote

tttttt1

@tttttt1

Rocker

Posted: 13 years ago

absoIuteIy true

in fact more than vioIence , a show i watched recentIy they show chiId abuse , femaIe foeticide and domestic vioIence in a very detaiIed and disturbing manner in a singIe episode ,

aII in the name of entertainment disgusting

and yes censor ship is appIicabIe to onIy intimate scenes , hypocrisy

PS- i Iiked today's episode , other than the precap

Edited by tttttt1 - 13 years ago

Quote

-JollyJabeen-

@-JollyJabeen-

Inactive

+ 7

Posted: 13 years ago

Originally posted by: Ash95
Romance increases the population
Violence decreases the population

😉

Nicely put. You don! 😛

Quote

.Euphoria.

@.Euphoria.

Rocker

+ 4

Posted: 13 years ago

Violence has always been over glorified in Indian Cinema and so in Indian TV too. No matter what the Hero's personality type is (aggressive or passive), he will always have a streak of this violence in him when faced with goonday.

We've been brought up to think the whole 'dishum-dishum' concept of violence as entertaining, and love scenes to be a taboo, when really, this is only influencing the younger generation negatively.

I think the next Satyamev Jayate epi should be on this 😆

Edited by .Euphoria. - 13 years ago

Quote

ipkbs

@ipkbs

Sparkler

+ 3

Posted: 13 years ago

In south asian communities it is considered taboo to be showing intimacy as it is considered a very private thing...present. but not seen or heard about.

Therefore there is still a majority of people present who follow these traditional and conservative values.

Violence has not been an issue over the ages. but has been condoned and accepted.

It is not the PH's fault with what they show us but the audience with the limitations of what they will accept...