I've been thinking about what is going on in India right now.. Just a
few minutes back, I read this amazing comment by someone saying as India
is already on a "banspree" lets ban X (X, because it's totally
unrelated to the context). So, as it appears freedom of speech and
freedom of expression is a far off dream in The Republic of India as of
2015. Ban the documentary BBC, a foreign channel made on a very famous
rape incidence that happened in India and not on one that happened in UK
or US or some other country, and because according to the statistics
the number of rape cases reported in India is far less than what is in
US or UK (the percentage of cases actually reported because has
absolutely no value!), this is an international conspiracy to malign the
name of our country!! *Wow, just wow!!
Then, they go on to ban Fifty Shades of Grey almost 2-3 weeks after it was released because people who really wanted to watch it are so waiting to do so after so many days! Also, apparently movies like that are never/will never be made in India (okay, maybe not on the large scale but can you actually vouch for that?).. *Are you serious???!!
Then comes the phase where stupid people like us try to make certain few people understand that it doesn't really matter, it should be a personal choice of everyone whether or not they want to watch something or not.. This choice should not be enforced on them in any way. How two different individuals interpret something is completely independent of the other. Also, the image and culture of a country is not reflected or affected by singular incidents like these, especially a country like ours.. And if it is being affected, the fault lies with us and not with people who make/produce movies/documentaries like these.
About the BBC documentary, I read somebody's comment saying it generalizes all Indian men as chauvinists and their mentality similar to that of the people interviewed. What I want to ask is how is that?? Aren't the father and the friend of the woman men or Indian men?? Why is their mentality not a reflection of the male population of India?? Why do we have to take up the negative from something and completely ignore the positive?? Why can't we for once accept something without being so closed up?? If this documentary hadn't be made into such a controversial topic, probably most of the Indian population wouldn't even come to know about its existence!! You don't like something but still you are the one imparting undue importance to that very thing.
I know nobody has the time to read just a stream of thoughts, so unorganized too, but if you can make sense of it... just give it a thought. Life is not the black and white, there are many more colors to it. If you can, try to accept it in its entirety and not typecast something into good or bad. It's completely up to us to decide the take-home message from something... It doesn't depend on the creators but the viewers.
Then, they go on to ban Fifty Shades of Grey almost 2-3 weeks after it was released because people who really wanted to watch it are so waiting to do so after so many days! Also, apparently movies like that are never/will never be made in India (okay, maybe not on the large scale but can you actually vouch for that?).. *Are you serious???!!
Then comes the phase where stupid people like us try to make certain few people understand that it doesn't really matter, it should be a personal choice of everyone whether or not they want to watch something or not.. This choice should not be enforced on them in any way. How two different individuals interpret something is completely independent of the other. Also, the image and culture of a country is not reflected or affected by singular incidents like these, especially a country like ours.. And if it is being affected, the fault lies with us and not with people who make/produce movies/documentaries like these.
About the BBC documentary, I read somebody's comment saying it generalizes all Indian men as chauvinists and their mentality similar to that of the people interviewed. What I want to ask is how is that?? Aren't the father and the friend of the woman men or Indian men?? Why is their mentality not a reflection of the male population of India?? Why do we have to take up the negative from something and completely ignore the positive?? Why can't we for once accept something without being so closed up?? If this documentary hadn't be made into such a controversial topic, probably most of the Indian population wouldn't even come to know about its existence!! You don't like something but still you are the one imparting undue importance to that very thing.
I know nobody has the time to read just a stream of thoughts, so unorganized too, but if you can make sense of it... just give it a thought. Life is not the black and white, there are many more colors to it. If you can, try to accept it in its entirety and not typecast something into good or bad. It's completely up to us to decide the take-home message from something... It doesn't depend on the creators but the viewers.
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