Censorship in Movies & Our Culture
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Kanadante Mayavadenu said:
(Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:21:39 AM)
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I think the censor board is actually doing a great job by cutting the scenes which should not be shown to the public. We can't blame the censor board for not cutting certain scenes which you think is vulgar because the censor board tells the film maker to cut only those scenes which are not required for the current generation. We can never compare the type of films which were made earlier and now because of the changing trend and technology.
And considering that the censor board has cut some scenes, or given an A certificate to a particular film, what's the guarantee that the younger generation won't see those scenes? And if they see those and had certain impact on them then who has to be blamed?
Film are meant to be for entertainment. So its the job of both censor board as well as parents. Censor board will do their work as usual but parents should also take care that these films are not to be seen by the youngsters and care should be taken that their minds are not affected by whatever they have shown in the film.
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Divya Kukreti said:
(Tue, Mar 12, 2013 12:20:15 AM)
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| In my opinion, censorship is necessary only if it is being followed wisely. Giving grading to a film does not mean you have surely succeeded in disconnecting those peoples who are not meant to digest that matter. In a country like India where we have a totally different culture and values, imposing censorship means helping our youth choose the correct path. Someone should be there to guide the youth if not lovingly then may be forcefully. After all its the question for the existence of an entire race called "THE UNIQUE INDIAN CULTURE" which is famous all over the world. |
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Ymmen Goel said:
(Tue, Oct 16, 2012 07:44:48 PM)
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Hello friends!
I read everyone's comment and they are really appreciable. What I concluded from these are two points.
1. The role of censor board is just to rate the movie as A, U/A or U. Rest depends upon the people, how do they take the film. Director cannot suffice everyone's needs.
Moreover its the duty of threatres that if a film is rated A, it should not allow the respective underage persons to enter the threatres.
2. Censor board can play its role when there are scenes which can cause riots among the religions. For eg. The current case going on in which a american made a film which has provoked the sentiments of Islamist. Such films should be ban or the scenes should be omitted. |
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Sanket said:
(Sun, Aug 26, 2012 12:46:07 PM)
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| Hello friends, I think censorship is really required for movies.Because without censorship there is no control or restriction on movies.Any director can release any movie that would affect our culture.our country's culture is different than other country so our country's culture should not affect by bad movies so censorship is required for movies to decide culture of movies. |
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Navneet said:
(Wed, Aug 22, 2012 09:45:21 PM)
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| I totaly agree with the point that censorship plays an important role but it also depends on the perception of the viewer that how he or she watches the movie. The Indian cinema, our culture, our youth are adversely being affected by this. Indeed some good and educational programmes must be broadcasted on tv in order to provide a good message to the students, teenagers and youngsters. |
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K.Kumar said:
(Mon, Jul 30, 2012 10:20:36 PM)
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I am of the opinion that today's cinemas as well as serials in T. V are mainly concentrating on the duels between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, father-in-law and son- in-law, dowry related threats and molestation, suicides followed by this by the bride, and modern ways of murder and thefts and of course 'Holier than thou' attitude by all. These are either copied down by the new generation or they are becoming mentally become a slave to such ideas and emotions that are shown in these movies and serials. The result is that the family loses the peaceful atmosphere in which it was moving and on a fine morning the relations, love affection etc withers away. Who is responsible for that? Who becomes a prey to these inhuman life style? And who earns out of it? Who loses everything in life? PEACE shatters into PIECES in every house.
Certain social immoral guys with the help of certain powerful authorities in the private and government sector amass wealth and fame out of these poor incidences. We, peace loving people, wants to restore a calm, lovable, friendly and sincere life in future. Life is for enjoyment in the natural way and not in a barbaric style. I request Censor board to censor all such misleading and dreadful scenes from films and serials. Remember, that a guy who works the whole day for his bread and when here turns home to enjoy a leisurely hours, he is been welcomed by these types of nasty vulgar dreadful cinemas and serials. |
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Sushant Burde said:
(Sun, Jul 29, 2012 09:02:21 PM)
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| From my opinions, it is better that the parents should not take there children away for these because in today's generation, kids gets smart enough, they find any ways to reach these and knows about it. 18 declares the age of maturity but it seems in today's generation 13-14 years kids empower them-self as mature and do the vulgar thing and it is the fact. |
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Priya said:
(Thu, Jul 5, 2012 12:39:59 PM)
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| The people above 18 are mature enough to understand the censored stuff and all but with the fast forward generation the kids are also taking interest in all of this. The more we want them away from it, the more they are getting attracted towards it. There is no way to hide it from them because there are many other sources like internet to go through all this even if a movie is banned for below 18 children. The increasing western culture is affecting the brains. |
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Yeanot said:
(Thu, May 3, 2012 09:15:15 AM)
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Censor board plays a pivotal role in the outcome of a cinema in a good way.In olden days there rarely used to be vulgar scenes in a cinema. But things have drastically changed now. More time has been allocated for the scenes which effect human sentiments and which effect our culture. More number of vulgar scenes have been put up by the directors so as to collect high revenues for the movie.
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Gangadhar said:
(Thu, Apr 26, 2012 11:20:11 AM)
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Good morning friends,
We are all know about our Indian culture. In olden days everyone should followed our culture very perfectly. But now a days our culture go to changing. This is occur in some movies. The censor board refuse vulgar words and censes which are not suitable our culture. So censor board is try to rescue our Indian culture. |
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Richa said:
(Fri, Apr 20, 2012 02:28:25 AM)
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| Censor boards duty is not to edit films but to classify the movie according to content, so that people make an informed choice whether to watch the movie or not, films should reflect our society so there is no point in editing the content. |
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Dipesh Mahra said:
(Mon, Apr 2, 2012 01:42:26 PM)
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Hello friends.
I agree with the point that censor plays a vital role in cinema. But if the movie has been rated A then it becomes our responsibility that below 18 must not watch it. Why to blame the censor board. And regarding the sentiments of the people, the filmmaker can not respect everyone's sentiments, as the population of this country is very large in numbers. It is we that how we take the movie. |
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Tanutanu said:
(Sun, Mar 18, 2012 11:20:28 PM)
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India is a religious country and indians are quite sensitive on certain issues and becasue of which censorship plays an important role in our country. It helps in drawing the line and makes sure that we films are not something which could hurt the sentiments of any section of the population. India is a house to so many cultures, religions etc and hence it is our duty to care for everybody's sentiments.
Also, with time, our people's perceptions, attitudes change and censor board should adapt itslef accordingly and deliver an effective censorship. |
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Niharika Drolia said:
(Tue, Feb 7, 2012 12:43:17 PM)
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There is huge diversity in the opinions of people here, and it gives me a great insight to the topic. I personally would like to add on to certain things.
1. The question on censor board is primarily on what and how are they censoring? Sadly there is a hypocracy prevalent on the concept of censoring. As someone already gave examples, there seems to be no clarity on the aims and ideas of the censor board.
2. What are the guidelines on rating movies as A and still censoring portions from it? Then the purpose of rating is not catered to at a large extent.
3. Talking about religion and culture, Indian culture thankfully is the most adaptable culture. It has persisted through all these decades only because of its flexibility. It automatically out throws the bad through its values. Are our values dependants on censorboards of any kind? Or are capable making the choice by themselves? |
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Astha Srivastava said:
(Mon, Jan 30, 2012 11:51:13 AM)
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| Actually it depends on us what we makes our perception at the time of seeing movie. We should not blame on censorship board. According to me its important for entertainment. The main task of censorship is bring right thing for the world. For example most of the people saw the dirty picture for the song oh la la and all. But how many people observe the reality of an actress. I think it depend how me make our perception towards the particular movie. |
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Asghar Ali said:
(Wed, Jan 25, 2012 09:45:47 PM)
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| In my opnion todays movie makers are showing vulger stuff in movies because youth are attracting towards these stuff. So we can not blame on any one we are responsible for these vulger scene in movies. When see movie and if there is any vulger content or scene then we say to our friends vow kia scene tha why we don't say that this scene was bad should be band. So stop barking on censor board avoid by your self to watch such movies. |
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Yashaswini said:
(Sun, Jan 22, 2012 01:20:05 PM)
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| The deletion of vulgarity is NOT the sole purpose of the censor board. Rather it is to supervise cinema content as being appropriate to its viewing population. Therefore instead of focusing on vulgarity (whose degrees are highly subjective, we should focus on the segregation of publics viewing cinema content and enforce rules which set a clear distinction between the publics and accordingly allow content to be viewed, advertisements to be published and followed in all viewing halls. |
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Satyendra Sungh Rathore said:
(Sun, Nov 27, 2011 02:31:07 PM)
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Hello friends...
I appricate your thoughts and addition to this yes cencer should be allowed,because from the aspect of a film maker every scene is gud whether this a velgur or bad scene,but it might give bad immpression to childern & youth . |
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Amit said:
(Thu, Nov 3, 2011 08:08:50 PM)
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| I strongly agree with Anchal. I think after globalisation, things have changed including the perception of people across the country. I believe we are now smart enough in distinguishing between right and wrong. Apart from this, for example if you see from a moviemaker's point of view, then you can easily feel that, change is vital in order to survive and compete in the global market. So finally I would like to conclude here by saying that, the role of censor board & other concerned authorities should be reduced at some extent. |
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Anchal said:
(Sun, Oct 9, 2011 03:55:14 PM)
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I think censorship should be allowed but in a limited way. The censor board should not. Interfere in the thoughts & ideas of film maker by forcing him to sound the " galiyan " as beep. If in a movie, there is a stunt scene, it should be censored. But the national television if showing a serial every weekend of an hour of life threatening stunts, then there is no issue.
I think with the changing time, we should be ready enough to accept the changes. If censor board is giving a movie, a title of A. I Think movie is a complete package of emotions like love, stunts (action) , sad, joy, sacrifice, victory. The thoughts of film maker should not be crushed.
In the end I would like to say that cenorship should be there, when required. In a movie if there is unrequired pornographic material, it should be censored. |
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Kajal said:
(Sat, Sep 24, 2011 01:50:31 PM)
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| From last 5 or 6 years we can notice that our bollywood industry is very much influenced by hollywood. Showing vulgur scenes is very common in hollywood. But I think that the censor board has forgoten that we are living in India which is a religious country. We do have a unique culture which do not permit us for such kind of stuff. So the censor board must band on producing such kind of movies. |
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Austin said:
(Wed, Dec 8, 2010 12:21:32 PM)
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I've read all of these and the two common things I see are these: 1- There are a lot of bad movies and they can/will/are affecting our youth! 2- The censorship board is not doing anything about it.
Yes, there are A LOT of movies out there that are vulgar, profane and just inappropriate for children. But you know what? You're "small children" are NOT BEING FORCED TO WATCH THESE! How about we stop blaming our problems on other people? Hitler's idea didn't end well for anyone.
If you want my opinion into the "final solution to 'cleaning up our youth'" then here it is:.
It's a simple thing called PARENTING!.
Maybe you have 2 to 10 or more jobs and have no time, well who's fault is that? Maybe it's time to stop watching your children from the side lines and take a more active role in their lives. But then again, we are all lazy one way or another, so do what you want. You can keep barking at other people to fix your problems, or you can do something that matters and actually care for your child/children.
Just so you know, I'm a seventeen year old guy who goes to high school. When I was about 6, my mother was a terrible alcoholic and my father died before I could even remember anything. She would let my brother and I watch are rated movies all the time. All through my life I have been exposed to violence, profanity and vulgarity and believe it or not, I'm not some rotten evil teenager who just loves to bully other kids and take advantage of women. I work hard daily to keep up with band, choir, an honors senior English class, a government class, National History Day, Adventures in Supercomputing, a college music class, Harding University Admission applications to the university as well as into an online Bible class with Harding. So you can either continue to be as ignorant as you are and blame everyone else, or you can take some advice from somebody who knows and either make time for your children or take a break from commenting on discussions about how everyone else is the reason your youth is going bad and get involved in your child's life.
P. S. I happened across this discussion while searching for examples of censorship for a satirical speech that I am to do this Monday in my English class and let me just take the time to say thank you very much, this was just what I needed. |
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Vipul Vaibhav said:
(Sun, Oct 10, 2010 02:00:22 AM)
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According to me vulgar scenes are very very common in Hollywood and Bollywood these days. And the censorship is just allowing for it. This will affect the small kids.
Why so vulgar scenes not blocked by sensor board?.
THIS MEANS THERE IS NO USE OF CENSORSHIP IF THEY ONLY ARE ALLOWING FOR THESE VULGAR SCENES. |
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Karnveer said:
(Thu, Sep 23, 2010 11:49:10 PM)
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| In my opinion, the movies are only for our entertainment and whatever scene we see in the movie can be not suitable for society. We should try to avoid these kind of scenes in the movies. |
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Shreyansh said:
(Thu, Jul 1, 2010 07:42:54 AM)
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I don't want that our sensor board should restrict to only cutting vulgar scenes, but it should be something more beyond that.
Because we, all most all, like to watch movies. It is true that it really affects on our thoughts and behavior.
Our culture has given ethics and basics to be followed to become a good person and if a movie is providing something against those ethics then that should get banned. Because it's something by which you can pass on the message or affect large amounts of lives. |
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Shiny said:
(Sat, Jun 26, 2010 01:37:33 AM)
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Censor Board plays an important role in the quality of todays movies. Nowadays movie makers are targetting for money only not for giving a good movie or message to society. They showing more glamor and attracting youth and making profits.
Censor Boards are nominated for providing certificates to the movie whether it suit for all age or for adults. So it helps to know what kind of movie it is one important thing is it slowly decrease the quality of films and spoiling youths and culture. |
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Arun said:
(Wed, Jun 23, 2010 02:07:59 PM)
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According to me vulgar scene is vulgar depending upon the perception of the viewer and its relevence in the movie. If a movie plot is such that it has to show a love making scene then they will show it and the censor board will certify it as A grade.
The A grade itself tells people that it will have some sensual scenes, so why see it if one is not comfortable with such scenes. yes i agree to shanker and teja if the scene is totally irrelevent in the movie like a bar dance or something like that. its time to accept the changes that are occuring in the society and our culture. |
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Shanker said:
(Mon, Jun 21, 2010 09:36:48 PM)
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Today most of the movies do not give meaningful context rather concentrating on social activities, concentrating on vulgarity.And i dont think so even censor board also playing complete role,depending on the industry the role has been playing. when it comes to censor board do not consider whether it is bollywood or kollywood or any other industry.
I think this is the time for delivering rightful message to the people. |
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Teja said:
(Tue, Jun 15, 2010 08:18:33 AM)
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Censor board plays a pivotal role in the outcome of a cinema in a good way.In olden days there rarely used to be vulgar scenes in a cinema. But things have drastically changed now. More time has been allocated for the scenes which effect human sentiments and which effect our culture. More number of vulgar scenes have been put up by the directors so as to collect high revenues for the movie.
I think this is high time for taking strict steps in the censorship board to save our future generation going in a wrong way. |
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