We are changed now and changed alot. In terms of our habits, priorities, liking, fashion, lifestyle and almost everything. Somehow we have started accepting the most rejected things and vice versa, This thought came into my mind when few days back i was just sitting in my cab and was listening to FM, suddenly the RJ roarded that she is going to play the title track of an upcoming movie, "Love Sex aur Dhokha". Then the song started with this title "Love Sex Aur Dhokha" numerous times in it. I liked the song even when the lyrics of this song don't make any bloody sense but the voice of Kailash Kher and some foot tapping beat was good enough to make me download this song on my phone.
Let's go 15-20 years back, There was a Govinda movie released and i am still not sure if it was "Dulaara" or "Laadla" with Karishma Kapoor. There was a song in the movie "sexy-sexy-sexy mujhe log bolein" and that time i did not know what does sexy mean and that's why i was not at all bothered about where and when i should sing or humm this song and in result, I got scolded so may times by my dad, teachers and other elders, that time we had only one T.V. channel " Doordarshan" and this song used to get aired multiple times on TV and on "Vividh Bharti (the first radio station playing music)".
However this song was on for few weeks and after that one day when i heard the song, "sexy-sexy-sexy" was replaced by "baby-baby-baby" and i also saw the expession of relief on my dad's face. After few years, I came to know what sexy means and by that time, We had started using this word quite frequently. I guess in the same or few years later or earlier the famous song from the movie "Khalnaayak", "choli ke pichhe kya hai" came into existance and again my father started asking me to fetch some water everytime it aired on TV. However it was not as tricky as "sexy" for me,and as soon as Ila Arun used to ask "Choli ke pichhe kya hai?? ", Alka Yagnik used to "LIE" " Choli mein dil hai mera". However nothing changed in this songs as the writer
tookcare of everything in this song and inspite of a controversial question asked in this song, He did not put accross the right or the exact answer.
I still remember, that Doordarshan used to broadcast some english movies after 11 PM on sundays as well as some english TV shows, and at that time, there was no censorship on those movies and shows and also i was fortunate enough to watch "Kamasutra's" uncut version and few foreign shows with babes showing their "assets".
But things have changed now, if you notice , whenever there is a movie is being aired on a TV channel, especially a hindi movie channel, you hardly get to watch any intimate scene or any voilent sequence. The Hero raises his gun to shoot and in the next scene you see that the villain is dead and you don't get to know if the hero has shot the villian once, twice or thrice. So the much awaited censorship has finally arrived but in an overcaring or you can say an orthodox manner. But this same censorship goes for a toss when it comes to TV shows and now days our own sweet idiot box has been flooded with so many "reality shows".From dating to engagement, enagement to courtship, courtship to marriage and marriage to divorce and at times about how to become a good parent or how to become a good son or daughter.There are about 1-2 reality shows being aired on every popular channel and we get to see and hear so may beeps and blurred images even before 11 PM (as this is a criteria set by the I&B ministory since early 90s).
I am not going to talk about any of these shows as most of my readers have raised this concern that anuj does'nt miss any of the TV shows and this post is more about this change which has taken place, Instead of the content of these shows.
The question which made my right this is still there, do we really need a censor board or censorship??????
Naturally, it falls upon government bureaucrats to decide what should be there and the problem is that India has long had a climate where it’s considered perfectly acceptable for the state to meddle in what its citizens can watch, and listen to. I googled about it and found a really nice fact that In 1968, for instance, “abbreviated skirts” and scenes “suggestive of soliciting” were enough to send “A Tale of Four Cities,” a documentary by KA Abbas partly set in Mumbai’s red-light districts, all the way to the Supreme Court. India’s top judicial body duly upheld its ban , setting a precedent for censorship that is still cited today. It ruled that films had to be scrutinized more carefully than other media because “a person reading a book or other writing (or)hearing a speech or viewing a painting or sculpture is not so deeply stirred as by seeing a motion picture.” In the view of the court, thus, Indians were like putty in the hands of these powerful media, incapable of making their own decisions or using their own discretion.
But, in recent years, things have begun to change. The economic growth triggered by India’s opening up has created a much larger middle class. And the intellectual influences that have poured in from elsewhere in the world have made this middle class more alive to the need to fight for freedom of expression.
Such voices are still few, and these actions not yet loud enough to counter the regressive forces that routinely stifle freedom of expression in India. But they are growing, and offer hope for India’s future.
And the conclusion which i got to after a bit of research and reviews is that there can't be a fixed policy or law about it as we have changed and changing like anything, so the policy and procedures also needed to be changed and it should be a viewer who decides, what he or she wants to see and listen and not a bunch of few old people who have seen changes only in their files and hair colour.
This is what i had , however you all are always welcome to come with your inputs..
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