| AXN banned for 'indecent' programme Times of India - NEW DELHI: It's a first - according to many a dubious first. Outraged by a programme on AXN, 'World's Sexiest Commercials', the government on Wednesday got into the moral policing act and banned the channel until March 15. AXN too hot, sent off air till March India bans TV channel on grounds of good taste |
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QUOTE(google-rss @ Jan 18 2007, 12:22 AM) 
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<font size=-1><font color=#6f6f6f>Times of India -</font> <nobr>3 hours ago</nobr></font>
<font size=-1>NEW DELHI: It's a first - according to many a dubious first. Outraged by a programme on AXN, 'World's Sexiest Commercials', the government on Wednesday got into the moral policing act and banned the channel until March 15.</font>
<font size=-1><a href="http://news.google.co.in/news/url?sa=T&ct=in/3-1&fd=R&url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/5922_1903387,0015002100000000.htm&cid=1112798875&ei=y6auRcXSK7mKsgHvzJDMAQ">AXN too hot, sent off air till March</a> <font size=-1 color=#6f6f6f><nobr>Hindustan Times</nobr></font></font>
<font size=-1><a href="http://news.google.co.in/news/url?sa=T&ct=in/3-2&fd=R&url=http://today.reuters.com/News/newsArticle.aspx%3Ftype%3DtelevisionNews%26storyID%3D2007-01-17T174858Z_01_DEL255672_RTRIDST_0_TELEVISION-INDIA-OBSCENE-DC.XML%26WTmodLoc%3DEntNewsTV_C1_%255BFeed%255D-3&cid=1112798875&ei=y6auRcXSK7mKsgHvzJDMAQ">India bans TV channel on grounds of good taste</a> <font size=-1 color=#6f6f6f><nobr>Reuters</nobr></font></font>
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MORAL POLICING?
The headmistress mentality continues in the country. What's good taste? Is there any definition anywhere? Does not the taste change even in the kitchen. As long as no one is hurt, no privacy is intruded upon, no unhappiness created what's wrong with the late-night shows?
The programme in question was a late-night show about some sexy ads. To under this one, it requires mature sensibility and a certain level of the knowledge of English knowledge. So what was the point in banning AXN I fail to understand.
This has also to be seen in the background of the happenings in and around India. Gruesome Nithali murders have left even the western countries. The open ads of condoms and Aid-related matters on the TV Channels is the order of the day. Don't the children see them? Prostitutes are being elicitated by the government and celebrities and now given a soft name of Sex Workers. Rampant corruptions at all levels of the government exist. Brothels abound everywhere. Late-night smack and liquore parties are the happening things. Skimpy clothing in ads, local movies and song re-mixes and item numbers are rampant on the TV screens.
And now one with holier-than-thou attitude bans an English language channel for some ads which, I'm sure, only a few can understand..
When will we grow up?
NASIR.
Exactly my feelings Nasir.......
I too agree fully. ....jinhen naaz hai Hind par woh kahan hain...
The dialogues, lyrics and the scenes depicted on Indian screen (more particularly from the south) are more suggestive and the stuff from the west is more revealing, in comparison. Suggestiveness is more provocative than revealing.
--Balaji
The dialogues, lyrics and the scenes depicted on Indian screen (more particularly from the south) are more suggestive and the stuff from the west is more revealing, in comparison. Suggestiveness is more provocative than revealing.
--Balaji
QUOTE(Reeth @ Jan 19 2007, 04:21 PM)
Exactly my feelings Nasir.......Thanks Reeth.
Don't they have something more constructive to do?
NASIR.
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