Censorship in Movies & Our Culture

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.

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 .

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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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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.