If one has to go by the latest ruling by the apex court on
the superstar Aamir Khan’s forthcoming flick PK, India has indeed become a
matured society and knows to differentiate between the nudity and art.
After 47 years of Independence, we have at least shown excellent growth in a field, so to say.
If the same thing was told to the Hindu hardliners when they protested about the nude pictures allegedly drawn by the acclaimed painter MF Hussain on Hindu Goddesses a few years ago, he won’t had quit the country and died in a distant land.
It’s baffling to understand, why a good actor like Aamir needs such publicity for his movie? His last film Doom 3 was a super-duper hit and still fills fresh in our mind. In one of the latest promotional events, he was asked about the reason for releasing such picture, which would be difficult for a family to watch with children in India. His answer was vague. He said, he wanted to check whether his friend Salman Khan would imitate this act also in his films.
If one considers the latest supreme court ruling on PK that the picture is more of an art than promoting nudity, then one can expect more such films in the future having Sunny Leone, Rakhi Sawant or any other frontline actresses who just cover their modesty with a piece of cloth or paper and roam around the streets. Does it an indication that our society has grown up?
We are already struggling with sociological and cultural degradation which leads to sexual crimes happening in large numbers almost every day. Not even a single day passed without a gang rape reported in a corner of the country. Women are subjected all sorts of assaults.
According to studies, the main reason for such large number of sexual crimes is due to the depiction of violence and sex shown on silver screens. A few years ago, say 20 years back, our celluloid heroes and heroines used to come closer to make love and two sunflowers would be shown indicating the obvious lip locking act. But now-a-days, films won’t become a box office hit unless it has, not one, but more such lip locking and sex scenes.
It won’t be correct to say that one should be conservative towards sexuality. We have to promote sex education in high-school level for safe sex. There have been talks for decades, but no government has come forward to pass the Bill in the Parliament. Even showing love on the silver screen can be an art. Why should we bring bedrooms in front of our GenNext? Of course we have Hollywood movies showing such scenes in almost every film, but the number of Indian audience, especially children, watching such movies is relatively smaller in number.
The court said, showing such scene is part of an entertainment. Then why we make a hue and cry about pornography? Human sex also an art. One can find several such art works in Ellora and Ajanta caves. Even in several south Indian temples, the Dravidian architecture depicts sexual acts on the temple towers by way of sculptures. These were once used to educate girls about sex and re-productivity by their mothers. But no one portrays it public domain with commercial interest in mind.
So, in the issue of PK, if the ad was made keeping only commercial reason in mind (which is obvious), then it is strongly deplorable. Such decision by the honorable court should not open a Pandora Box and pave the way for several such initiatives by producers and actors to fill-in their coffers at the cost of the society.
Jai Hind!
