Censorship in Movies & Our Culture

The coins has to side like that in censor board shoe motivational movie or romantic types movie. Like lagan, tare jamin par, bhag mika bhag that type of movie shown by them but for younger generation they show bad scenes which give bad thoughts, or inspire to do that bad scenes. So in motivational part the censor right vise versa.

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.

Censorship involves both the V's - Vulgar and Violence. Taking violence alone doesn't make sense. Lets not take both or take both. The world is moving much faster that we expect it to. In this fast moving world and Rapid increase in technology banning the V's doesn't seem to be a great idea. Lets face the truth and Parent the future in better ways. The need of the hour is not banning the V's. We need to educate the future wise enough for understanding the truth. Banning is not prevention. We are actually postponing the problem for latter. Educate!

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.

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.

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 friends,

I totally agree with the point mentioned here about the censorship in movies, I think censorship is the right thing which can be done to make movies better. It restrict the movies in some areas so that the producer can not misuse it.

But I am shocked also after seeing the old movies and new movies. There is a lot difference, like before there used to be no vulgar scenes at all or at very low extent but nowadays its been common. It can be seen in every movie. Our culture is being affected because of these things as the people are getting attracted towards this fake cinematic effects shown in movies. These are mere the attractions and also the producer adds some spices to it by adding adult content to it.

So I think censor board may be blamed for all these things, if they have not allowed a single movie containing such vulgar scenes then it might not have been the choice of the filmmakers. And public also started demanding all these so its totally affecting our culture.

Movies are an art form, an expression of one's self. We have choice in the decision to watch, or to allow our children to watch, a certain movie.

Before we view, we as parents decide if appropriate or not.

The statue in public, of David, (Florence, Venice?) was not altered to suit censors, centuries ago.

In cinema, I don't like violence, horror but I do like fantasy, sentiment, sensuality and intellectual erotic film.

My children are, fittingly, at the opposite end of the scale. I raise them well, with high standards, so they avoid the public (internet) movies of filth. Further, they have permission to watch select movies.

First question is- Do we tolerate, or is it legal in society, to change someone's art work?

If yes, then remember, we are all different, so if we censor, who decides what to remove, what to leave, and does this get rid of the root problem?

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?

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.