Censorship in Movies & Our Culture

Hi to all.

Censorship in movies is really important nowadays. As because we are indians and we don't want our kids to be indulged in any wrong activity.

Censor board is doing its job very efficiently and is very praise worthy too, as it is doing a lot for the nation.

See these guys are doing a lot to save our child, our culture from being destroyed.

Now a little bit of responsibility on your shoulders. Because they have done their job by providing certificates to movies. And now its our turn to take care of our children.

Rather than just complaining others for unsuitable material in the film.

Take an initiative protect your kids, from following any misdeed.

Check out their internet history.

Don't give below 18 a ticket for any adult film.

And also the directors have to look for it that they don't make irrelevant sex scenes, because a good story really don't need it. And you can not make all your money by showing the vulgar content to any body.

That's all thank you.

Why is censorship wrong?

The arguments I've heard so far would be that it goes against "our" culture, it is too vulgar for "us", and also that it would be bad for the kids. Now, the "our", and "us" is more like your. Okay. Fine. These scenes offend you, don't go see them. We can't call ourselves a democracy if we ban everything that we don't agree with. There is a reason we have PG, or UA, or some other type of ratings with the movies in our theaters. If you don't want nudity, don't watch A rated movies. It's your choice, as it should be for someone who lives in a democracy. What is not okay, however, is to take that choice away from someone else, just because you don't agree with the contents of a cinema, or, completely unrelated, what someone chooses to eat.

Thank you.

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.

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.

Hello everyone,

According to me, the Censor board is not working truthful work. Because In the past few years, they provide green flag on those movies they affected our Society, I also agree that India is developing very fast, But In my view, India is developing in all of the sector except religious. Because Everywhere rioting In India Because of religion So, If Censor board banned all of the movies those gives the message for hating. When our Society mind developing.

I have seen some of the some of the discussions mentioning parenting and all those stuff. To all those people who say that parents dont have to take their children to cinemas rated Adult, I want to say I am quite sure parents arent so stupid enough to take their children to those cinemas. Forget about cinema halls, we have something called the t.v and a more dangerous equipment the internet. Does anyone think that not taking children to cinema halls is going to prevent them from watching movies in the internet? If anyone does think like that I am so sorry to say think again. This whole thing about cinema's being an expression of art is also ridiculous. I am not talking about cinema being an expression of art, the excuse of using it like that. Cinema is one of the most imaginative and beautiful methods of expression of art. But please dont misuse that concept. We can express ourselves or art of cinema without sex scenes or nudity. More than censorship, our mindsets need to change.

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.

Hello everyone.

I am assuming from my point of view that most of these opinions come from middle-aged men and women who are overprotective of their beloved sons and daughters. I m myself in my early 20s right now and I think our censor board is really overdoing it. What I m saying is what is the point of watching a movie in the theater if we are not gonna see half of it. We can wait a few months to get a rip off from the internet. Sometimes the censoring destroys the continuity of the story, destroys the humour and several other things. I really don't believe a person (let it be a late teen) who watch an A rated film gonna have his mind completely altered to negative mentality. There is a thing called porn if you are worried about nudity and a thing called GTA if you're gonna puke on seeing a person head blown off by a shotgun. I just elaborated on the reality of the situation happening around us right now, censoring a few minutes of a film is never gonna change that. Each one of us gets to decide what we should become.

One point being constantly repeated again and again is that if you don't 'censor' film you and and your children might be left in an awkward position, and it would influence badly in your child's psyche.

But why would you take your 10 year child to an 'A' or 'U/A' rate movie? Some of you might be confused, let me clarify, no one wants to abolish the 'RATING' system, only the 'CENSORING' system you know, the process that determines which parts of the movie {or anything} stays].

Just imagine a handful of people, of whom 50% are mere puppets of the government of the time picking out which and which not to watch for a billion people, you included. Don't you find that enraging? Some idiot decides on what and what not you, an 18 year old adult who can think for yourself and are imbued with the power to elect a representative for the country. Taking you for a fool every step of the way.

Sitting there, condescending on you and your brethren, spouting things like, "This would instigate them", "they are too foolish to not smoke when they see a cigarette "[apparently we are dumb monkeys]"Ah, this scene, this scene would arouse him uncontrollably that he might perform some disgusting act in the cinema".

Tell me people, are we really that mindless? That obnoxious? Censorship may primarily be a jab at the filmmakers' pride but it is ultimately a kick to our intelligence and right to expression. It is a tool with which knowledge, emotion and expression is controlled. So with this final thought I end this note, CERTIFICATION IS MANDATORY I agree but CENSORSHIP IS JUST PURE PROPAGANDA.

Hi friends!

We all know about Indian culture. But day by day it is degrading due to the many reason. One main reason behind this is cinema also. For entertainment, money and need of scene some directors of the film are not avoiding to show bad and vulgar scenes.

Its duty of censor board to cut these type of scene. And actually they are not doing their work well, not cutting these type of ghatia scenes which adversely affect our society. Now days very rare films are there which we can watch with our family. So censor board should filter the film very fairly so that it will not affect our society.

That's it.