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Friday, May 11, 2007

Logic da saamy

Channel KTV...

Movie Mahanadhi..

Scene 1 ...Kamal, Poornam and Rajesh sit together and discuss the unfairness of honest men suffering, after Kamal tries to meet Dhanush(Cochin Hanifa) on return from jail...

Rajesh: ..Nermaiya irukuruvannuku mathipu illai, anal thevidiythanathukku thunai poravannuku maalaiya'nu".....

Scene 2.....Kamal's daughter on coming back from Kolkota mumbles in her sleep......

Kamal's daughter...."Vidungada thevidiya pasangala.....naan enna machina.....


KTV decides that the second utterance of thevidiya is three much so cuts the audio for that portion, while retaining the scene. But it does not do so for the first utterance of the T word. The T word is retained as is the visual.

So what does one infer from this instance selective censoring...

1)Was it a plain case of missing out on the first thevidiya....

2)Was it a case of men using the word being more acceptable than women using it......

3)Or was it a case of pimps being more socially acceptable than bastards....

KTV, kaunse choice ko lock kar diya jaaye ???

Most probably the answer is one...in which case it most certainly means that the person who sat down to decide the censor did not see the movie throughly enough. Also it might be that he/she knew about the occurence of the second T word before hand as it was a much talked about scene. If that is the case what is the point in censoring it? Most people know what was said there anyway. Athu enna logic'o..Devure.....

(BTW I am assuming that it is ok to censor stuff when telecast on TV. That assumption is in itself debatable.)

Kosuru goof up.....
The Kamal Sukanya kissing scene was cut. Now if someone supports that the most natural kissing scene in Tamil movie history, is objectionable to the sensitivities of the viewer, they can jump into koovum....
Nalla velai real life'la intha maari kissing scene'a cut panravnaga ellam illai...:)

7 Comments:

At 11/5/07 13:44, Blogger Bala (Karthik) said...

Sridhar,
Considering the fact that the censor board *works* only for certifying/'vetting' Kamal films, this miss is unpardonable.
panra velaya ozhunga pannungada vennaingala.

Censorship-e irukka koodadhu (almost). Venumna ratings vechikkattum. Indhi censorship is much more consistent and sensible.
It is a malaise of our people in general. andha 'mentality'.

Nalla velai real life'la intha maari kissing scene'a cut panravnaga ellam illai...:)
Yen illa??? namma oorla illadha culture police-a?
Tamil Nadu police, i piss on thou :))

 
At 11/5/07 13:58, Blogger mutRupuLLi said...

Bala, Censor board oru waste...atha vidunga....

When channels do it, it is even more funny...i mean as if TV only telelcasts conventionally "decent scenes/songs movies.......

BTW I mean kissing etc in private.....not in public places......
If we give our culture paathukavalargal a chance they may even insist on a ban on "Kissing even in private"...

I am not very sure about Public Display
of Affection...I get uncomfy when people go about doing it...I don't find it wrong or immoral...but i certainly get uncomfy...and given a chance i won't do it.....yaar kudukuranga chance :))

 
At 17/5/07 13:11, Blogger Cosmic Voices said...

yaar kudukuranga chance?

Shilpa Shetty

 
At 17/5/07 13:43, Blogger mutRupuLLi said...

Shilpa Shetty.....aaha...goo suggestion....but guess there would be a long queue waiting before me...:)
BTW what did the old wise men( &woman) decide..?

 
At 17/5/07 20:38, Blogger Cosmic Voices said...

They decided that I have been enjoying my unemployment for long and it is time for me to work.

 
At 18/5/07 09:52, Blogger mutRupuLLi said...

Hey cool man.........
So this is the end of the Blogger CV....
Now soon we would have the Collector CV...

 
At 18/5/07 12:02, Blogger Cosmic Voices said...

Well, not Collector CV but Taxman CV.

And I will be a blogger who will be a "good citizen".

 

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