Been to Pune on a brief trip – a wedding was on the cards.
While coming back, they showed this stupid totally crappy Hindi movie, Koi Anjana Sa (or something to that effect) in our coach. It was a Balaji Telefilms production, and that should tell you in great detail about the film quality. (For the uninitiated, google for Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi and Ekta Kapoor.) I had no alternative but to watch it; it’d not go away even though I tried to block it with my earphones!
Anyway, so this movie is rated U, or open to all.
And it has a rape scene. No flesh or anything is shown, but the act is pretty much portrayed.
That’s the funny part: The man takes off his shirt, loosens his belt, but does not take off his pants, and neither does he undress the girl in any way except taking off her dupatta. I wonder if they do it some other way… Or is it only dry humping! (That can’t be it, because she does indeed get pregnant later on, which brings a lot of stupid things in itself, and I’ll refrain from going there as this post is not about the film.)
The point in consideration is that how is the movie rated U? It should atleast be a U/A (or PG in the American Censor Board terms). Or is our censor board of the view that if they don’t take off their clothes, nothing really happened, and the kids will not understand what’s happening. (Actually, they very well do, they always do!) Only if bare flesh is portrayed in some form, will they wake up?
Maybe the censor board is a skin tone detection machine! Anything down below the inner thighs is okay, so long as it’s not in a rape scene, where you need to wear full clothes, and the rape can be symbolic, with just the dupatta being taken away. Happens in almost every family film… Pardes had it as well… I’m sure there will be more, I don’t watch as many Hindi movies, so…
Double standards… Hypocrites…
And frankly, who the hell cares? The internet makes it all very easy anyway.