Filmmakers Hansal Mehta and Pritish Nandy on Friday questioned the NCPRC s objection to the Netflix series Bombay Begums , wondering if it is another assault on the creative freedom of filmmakers.
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BY VINAYAK CHAKRAVORTY
A bank CEO’s son runs over a lower-class boy. The victim’s poor parent spots a get-rich-quick scheme through blackmail. A public scandal could end the CEO’s career and so it is best to pay up, and then pay some more.
Sounds like standard soap opera drama? Okay, imagine the picture again: The bank CEO is a woman fighting to hold onto that position, in an otherwise all-male board of directors waiting with bated breath to bring her down. The victim’s parent is a sex worker, who has incidentally serviced the CEO’s son who will run over her boy, only minutes before the incident takes place.
The NCPCR sent a notice to Netflix to stop streaming Bombay Begums. Now Hansal Mehta has reacted to the same and questioned if people spend their time watching ott
Netflix’s Bombay Begums issued notice for ‘inappropriate portrayal’ of children
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Bombay Begums
âWe have sought stopping the streaming of
Bombay Begums over inappropriate portrayal of children in the series,â National Commission for Protection of Child Rights Chairperson Priyank Kanoongo said. Netflix has been given 24 hours to remove
Bombay Begums.
National Commission for Protection of Child Rights issues a notice to Netflix for #BombayBegums . Asks it to stop streaming the series in 24 hours. @ETPoliticspic.twitter.com/iWcVWD09IL