Censorship in Movies & Our Culture

Censor Boards do play an important role in media and vis a vis society, however, there must be a uniformity in the exercise. This uniformity may transcend beyond the Boards capacity. Hundreds of millions of people of India go to temples, being exposed to sex, nudity, Violent pictures and what not, through the carvings, drawings etc, This is acceptable, but the fighting scenes in X-men days of future past were deemed unsuitable? This is just an example. The scene was practically mangled beyond recognition. The Board would be better of Banning some of these movies outright.

How about, public defecation and urination. You mean extended kissing scenes are more vulgar to viewers than that? The whole process of censorship is laughable, until the social behaviors in public arena are cleaned up.

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.

According to me, censor board should not be abolished. Some of the scenes in the films are not suitable for our Little ones. I'm not saying only about different adult Scenes but also those which involves violence. It affects the mind of everyone. Especially the mind of little ones is affected the most. So censor board is just providing a protective layer to our Minds. Because films are jobs to actors they have to do what they get even right or wrong. So, censor board is there who picks out some of the things which they thought are not suitable for our society, and remember one thing that they have to think about all ages and not only a particular. So, they are doing a good thing. Rest depends on your thoughts and thinking.

Thanks it's a GARVIT'S view.

Well, if we go through the definition it would be very clear that, censorship in case of films is the board of certification rather than censoring and its business is to classify films on the basis of age appropriate level.

Right to freedoms is very important tenet of a democracy, and morality of country should not subjected to the political dispensation.

India, is a democracy where different strata of people are there, something which is sarcastic for one may be downright outrageous and offensive for others. So censoring is sometimes necessary for smooth functioning of the country. But most of the times its completely ridiculous. I, appreciate UN model where it is decided within industry, what they want to cut and what they know.

Anything which exceeds a certain limit is not good at all. The same applies to censorship in movies. The view about a particular movie is personal and in no way imposable. The Censor board is also made up of a group of human beings given the specific task of approving a movie weighing it in all aspects. These few people cannot decide what the others can see. Views and interests vary from person to person and cannot be thrust upon them. If this happens censorship amounts to dictatorship in the movie industry. Often many producers have to cut various painstakingly shot scenes which may also have cost much. This may also ruin the beauty of the movie and make the audience disinterested to watch it.

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.

Hi friends,

I am Hamri. According to my point of view, Censorship in Movies Must be strictly follwed by censorship board. In 2013, Indian cinema celebearted it's 100th year. At this Moment we are proud to be an Indian. Since 100 years, Indian cinema Giving a good movies for Society. Watching Movies are the main Entertainment Zoner in India. At every Time they learn Some good habbits from Movies. Some of the movies are showing motivational thoughts to the society. I am sure that all the Movies are giving good thoughts to the society. 50% of the movies have to teach Bad thoughts, Showing vulgar scenes on the screen. It must be censored before it is getting into the theatre.

THE increased number of crimes are also having a direct relationship with the films as it is already stated by my friends that movies have a very strong potential to influence people's mind and then the youngsters already have a very tender mind which imprints quickly.

So I think censorship should actually be taken very serious issue making up the future. Parents and teachers should provide the teenagers with the necessary information about the basic biological phenomenon so that they do not find unlawful means to gather the information. As said by bala it is the high time to educate! as it is rightly said that" the best way to solve a problem is to face it. ".

Hello, everyone.

I read all your comments and I respect your individual perspectives. So I have few lines to share. Movies are made to reflect the reality though mass media only. Directors and producers make movies yo convey some message. In this process, they have to use few lines or scenes which are need of the cinema. The role of censorship is to filter bad and obscene contents of the movies but by doing so they are hurting the sentiments of the maker. So instead of eliminating contents from the movies. They must certify the movies and leave them to the viewers to decide whether to go and watch the movies or make it a big flop. Thank you.

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.