Finally, a Bill to cleanse OTT content
There have been protests over the gratuitous gore, vulgarity, filthy language, nudity, and sex depicted in OTT platforms' programming ever since they first appeared in India. To some extent, it is expected that international OTT programmes will contain this type of content, but when indian content creators—particularly those who specialise in Hindi—entered the market, they went absolutely crazy. They made violence and sex look more repulsive!
Films have been harshly censored for even the smallest of details in scenes or sequences that are deemed offensive. The word "objectionable material" was not defined and was largely up to the whims and preferences of the numerous reviewing committees who watched the movies. Even the chairpersons may occasionally be too controlling and nitpicky. The censors never followed precedents, and their own judgments were never consistent.
Therefore, how and why was the material that would have resulted in a film's permanent prohibition publicly displayed on OTT platforms? Just because the government overlooked this pattern and allowed it to persist? Why must profanity, gore, and bad language pass unchallenged on OTT platforms in the name of entertainment when pornographic movies and websites are outlawed? Why can't we have rules like this to shield impressionable young indian minds with easy access to OTT content if we can have regulations protecting animals from violence during a film shoot?
Films have been harshly censored for even the smallest of details in scenes or sequences that are deemed offensive. The word "objectionable material" was not defined and was largely up to the whims and preferences of the numerous reviewing committees who watched the movies. Even the chairpersons may occasionally be too controlling and nitpicky. The censors never followed precedents, and their own judgments were never consistent.
Therefore, how and why was the material that would have resulted in a film's permanent prohibition publicly displayed on OTT platforms? Just because the government overlooked this pattern and allowed it to persist? Why must profanity, gore, and bad language pass unchallenged on OTT platforms in the name of entertainment when pornographic movies and websites are outlawed? Why can't we have rules like this to shield impressionable young indian minds with easy access to OTT content if we can have regulations protecting animals from violence during a film shoot?