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Is a censor board for Television really required?
A face-off between Ekta Kapoor and Pahlaj Nihalani is imminent!
A lot of film producers recently questioned the authorities that if there is a censor board for Films, why is there no such board for TV producers? The authorities have responded with a 'there may soon be a regulatory board' that will monitor TV content as well!
In conversation with a news portal, the CBFC chief Palhaj Nihalani said that Television has only Self-Censorship. This liberty is being taken too far. Recent shows have crossed all boundaries of decency. A crime serial like Crime Patrolshows a man raping his own daughter. Ekta Kapoor made serials showing a woman getting married repeatedly. Film producers want to know why there is censorship only for cinema. Either abolish censorship completely or lay down censor guidelines for television.
Get set TV producers, as Draconian rules, may soon be applied to your shows! But do TV shows really need a censor board?
Firstly, taking into consideration the remarks made by Pahlaj Nihalani about Crime patrol, it is a crime based show! What the show does is that it creates re-enactments of crimes that happened in reality! The show aims at creating an awareness about crimes that happen and which can happen to us as well! This show is highly informative and a study has also proven that such shows reduce the crime rates by putting fear into the minds of culprits and victims too! Just because incest is a taboo in India and that no one opens about, it is not wrong to show it in order to make people aware of it! The show airs in the late night slot and hence they can show slightly mature content and the content that they are showing is not even made up!
About the Ekta Kapoor show, why can't she show a woman getting married multiple times? Just because it's against Indian culture? The authorities need to step into the real world and see this for themselves. Its a woman's choice if she wants to marry 10 different men! She can marry whoever she wishes to stay with and we feel that it's completely okay to show such content on Television!
With reference to context, TV producer Rajan Shahi said,"All the major GEC channels have a strong and respective SNP, which keeps track of our episodes. Before going on air, all the episodes get monitored by them. Every channel has a respective disciplinary board, which looks into each and every episode and if they find something wrong, they cut those portions. The people heading over Bollywood are not clear in what kind of films are correct. How are they planning to work it in TV?"
First films and now Television shows are targetted by Barbaric authorities, who wish to impose 'their' ideologies on the audience. They will decide what's wrong content and what's right content for a population of approximately 1,236,344,631 mature Indians who have the ability to decide what to watch and not to watch!
I guess the concerning authorities are too much into the 'Log Kya Kahenge' thought and stressing over what other people would say about our country. They probably think that such content will put India in a bad light! We live in a country that gave the world Khajuraho and Kamasutra for God's sake! All we have to say is 'Logon ko jo dekhna hai dekhne do, har banda kuch na kuch alag kahega!'
And that's how a society works, people with different opinions coming together!
What Indian TV needs is a board to put a curb on poor quality content that is seen in abundance these days!What do you think about having a censor board for TV? Leave your comments below.
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