{"id":4079,"date":"2009-10-02T07:09:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T01:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=3522"},"modified":"2009-10-02T07:09:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-02T01:39:00","slug":"preemptive-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/preemptive-censorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Preemptive Censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"
HT<\/i> reports<\/a> that the I&B ministry has just given the go-ahead to the producers of a film called The Indian Summer<\/i> to shoot in India. However, after going through the script, it wants four scenes deleted from the film—these show “a kiss between Nehru and Edwina; a dancing scene; one where Nehru says ‘I Love You’; and a scene showing them in bed.”<\/p>\n Normally, when two people have an affair, there is kissing, there are confessions of love (or lust), and there is carnal action. I don’t see the point of pussyfooting around all this—an affair without these would not be an affair, so why should a film about an affair have to avoid these?<\/p>\n The government also insists that the film carry a disclaimer that it is a work of fiction. Why not keep those scenes then?<\/p>\n The ministry says it is doing this because it doesn’t want anyone to “show Nehru in a poor light.” That is bizarre: I don’t think his alleged affair with Edwina shows him in a poor light—the guy was human, after all. (Most Indian men would probably think more highly of him because he scored with a white chick, but leave that aside.) <\/p>\n And even if it did show Nehru in a poor light, so what?<\/p>\n Anyway, as revenge on the Indian government for this preemptive censorship, I suggest that the producers get Salman Khan to play Nehru, and have him sing a Himesh song as Edwina runs around a tree. That will show them.<\/p>\n *<\/p>\n And for what I think of the I&B ministry, see point 3 of this old wishlist<\/a> of mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" HT<\/i> reports<\/a> that the I&B ministry has just given the go-ahead to the producers of a film called The Indian Summer<\/i> to shoot in India. However, after going through the script, it wants four scenes deleted from the film—these show “a kiss between Nehru and Edwina; a dancing scene; one where Nehru says ‘I Love You’; and a scene showing them in bed.”<\/p>\n Normally, when two people have an affair, there is kissing, there are confessions of love (or lust), and there is carnal action. I don’t see the point of pussyfooting around all this—an affair without these would not be an affair, so why should a film about an affair have to avoid these?<\/p>\n The government also insists that the film carry a disclaimer that it is a work of fiction. Why not keep those scenes then?<\/p>\n The ministry says it is doing this because it doesn’t want anyone to “show Nehru in a poor light.” That is bizarre: I don’t think his alleged affair with Edwina shows him in a poor light—the guy was human, after all. (Most Indian men would probably think more highly of him because he scored with a white chick, but leave that aside.) <\/p>\n And even if it did show Nehru in a poor light, so what?<\/p>\n Anyway, as revenge on the Indian government for this preemptive censorship, I suggest that the producers get Salman Khan to play Nehru, and have him sing a Himesh song as Edwina runs around a tree. That will show them.<\/p>\n *<\/p>\n And for what I think of the I&B ministry, see point 3 of this old wishlist<\/a> of mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,9,3,15,4,17],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n