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.

If a movie come to society it must take certificate from the censorship board, because some movie 18+ movies spoil the society so it mandatory know a days most of movies abusing words are used it must be cancel in the movie.

Keeping aside the action and drama, the vulgarity depicted knows no bounds. India has always been known for its culture. However it's rare to find movies based on any culture. Thanks to the media and the hype created of the celebrities personal lives, youngsters get influenced in the wrong way.

Keeping aside the action and drama, the vulgarity depicted knows no bounds. India has always been known for its culture. However it's rare to find movies based on any culture. Thanks to the media and the hype created of the celebrities personal lives, youngsters get influenced in the wrong way.

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.

Now a days, the movies are showing totally wrong face of the society by showing sex and kissing scene. These are the privacy of our society that should be respected. Directors have made a habit of adding some offended (so called hot scene) to earn a lot.

But how these get passed through censor board? It's corruption. Yes corruption! These days We hardly find a movie that we can see with our family. So The censorship should remove the scenes completely not partly. Then I will believe that the board worth existing.

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.

Come on people, are you living in ancient Indus Valley Civilization? Does some censor board know us better than our own self? Can we not choose what's going to harm us? Do we need any external agency to check what we watch?

My point here is, the sensor can very well warn us about the contents of any movie but has no right to mess around with somebody's hard work. The person is not dumb if he's making a movie or a documentary. He has some sort of practical knowledge and experience.

Secondly, we cannot rule out that the so-called "bad things" shown in the piece are not alien, they exist in our own society.

Thirdly, You can't tell me what to watch until I am not offending someone. The person by making his creation public has given me his consent to view it, so no third person has the right to mess around.

Fourthly, will we ourselves not be a hypocrite if we support these people? On one hand we are ready to beat a person to pulp on roads, but on the other hand, we cannot bear violence on screen. What harm has the poor X-Men done to you?!

Fifthly, our main concern is children. Do you think its hard to find an uncensored clipping on the internet? You get my point!

Ultimately, my point is that we don't need a sensor.

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.

This is not only about sex scenes or nude scenes. What about the violence depicted? After seeing Agneepath, a kid went and shot his teacher. Reason? Revenge. They saying that we are ready for movies that show a lot of violence is not true. My mom cringed at the violence shown in Title, Nh 10 etc. Yes, we have to accept the changes that are going on in our society. But does that mean we have forgotten what we were?