Says The Hindu and calls for the immediate recall of the ban notification. Reasons?
1. Films need to depict everything human including weaknesses, depravities, excesses
2. The scope of the notification is too large and will be difficult to implement and
3. Freedom of the media will be infringed
Will a typical Bollywood movie suffer much if smoking is not allowed to be shown? I don't think so. That being the case, maybe smoking could be allowed in meaningful cinema - kids are not likely to see these animals anyway. Assuming the latter works with low budgets - allow smoking in movies with budgets below, say, 10 crores (or whatever). Won't work since the declared budgets of all movies will then plunge below that cut-off amount. Have a list of meaningful movie directors. Won't work. Even Karan Johar thinks he makes serious movies. Allow any movie without a big star (~ anyone charging more than 2 crores,say) to show smoking. Won't work. Star system will crash and smoking will still be everywhere.
All in all, a well-meaning but very difficult to implement notification.
And it may not be on sound legal ground.
1. Films need to depict everything human including weaknesses, depravities, excesses
2. The scope of the notification is too large and will be difficult to implement and
3. Freedom of the media will be infringed
Will a typical Bollywood movie suffer much if smoking is not allowed to be shown? I don't think so. That being the case, maybe smoking could be allowed in meaningful cinema - kids are not likely to see these animals anyway. Assuming the latter works with low budgets - allow smoking in movies with budgets below, say, 10 crores (or whatever). Won't work since the declared budgets of all movies will then plunge below that cut-off amount. Have a list of meaningful movie directors. Won't work. Even Karan Johar thinks he makes serious movies. Allow any movie without a big star (~ anyone charging more than 2 crores,say) to show smoking. Won't work. Star system will crash and smoking will still be everywhere.
All in all, a well-meaning but very difficult to implement notification.
And it may not be on sound legal ground.
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