[IMC Bombay] on censorship of films

[Vickram Crishna]

Very nicely put. Just one point, inserted below.
At 7:21 PM +0000 21/08/2002, shammi nanda wrote:
>I had written a note on censorship as a reaction to the cuts imposed 
>by the censor board on Anand... ...If the Censor Board=92s job is to 
>check the =91corruption of mind=92 and to check pornographic films, in 
>today=92s times where anyone with access to the internet can see 
>infinite amount of pornography, one wonders how much use is the 
>Censor Board  in stopping it.

The Censor Board is not charged with preventing people to access such 
stuff on the Net (and please don't even raise the possibility).

Secondly, (once this point gets raised in public consciousness) the 
access of the Internet today (both in width and depth) is hugely 
different from that of cinema. The Internet is almost totally an 
individual experience, unlike cinema. The two simply aren't 
comparable, and the former is not a valid example for the latter.

Perhaps some modification to your note that comments on the business 
side of this: how a hugely expensive and complex infrastructure like 
film-making and displaying gets support (due to the revenue it 
generates for the government?) whereas live theater gets almost none 
(almost impossible to censor individual shows of street theatre).
-- 
Vickram