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The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has issued a notice to OTT platform Netflix to stop streaming Bombay Begums. It has also asked the streamer to furnish a detailed action report within 24 hours, failing which it will be constrained to initiate appropriate legal action.
Censoring of OTT content seems to be limited to curbing voices of dissent; nuanced regulation could be a way forward Censorship back in the days of single-channel TV was all about providing ‘clean’ entertainment on a mass platform rather than curbing a difference of opinion or catering to the powers-that-be. You’d imagine a 2021 version of that old formula would continue work for the common man. Karishma Upadhyay January 23, 2021 14:24:49 IST A still from the deleted scene in Tandav.
Makers of Amazon Prime’s show
Tandav have agreed to censor out scenes from the show that allegedly hurt religious sentiments. This, perhaps, marks the end of a significant but short phase in Indian entertainment. Away from the hawk-eyes of the Censor Boards, creators have hitherto had complete freedom to tell the kind of stories they want to without having to censor