Broadcasting panel scoffs at South Indian movies

The Broadcasting Content Complaints Council (BCCC) has taken serious note of the production of movies from South India which show “extreme violence” and portray women in “poor light”.

The council has suggested that there should be some collaboration mechanism between it and the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) to regulate such contents.

“A lot of violence is shown in movies produced in southern Indian languages. There should be some coordination between the CBFC and BCCC (to regulate such contents).

Audience needs to watch good movies,” chairman of the Council Justice A P Shah said, adding that a large number of complaints relating to airing of such movies on television were received by the BCCC.

The council is a self regulatory body for non-news channels, set up by the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) in consultation with the Information and Broadcasting Ministry.

“Some of the complaints related to movies are serious. We do not have mandate. It is the CBFC which can deal with the issue. We forward such complaints to it,” Shah said, stressing on the need to create a collaborative mechanism between BCCC and CBFC to deal with such cases.

According to sources, the BCCC has received a large number of complaints about television telecasting movies with extremely violent contents produced in Tamil, Telugu and Kannada languages from southern India.

Source: http://cablequest.org/news/national-news/item/798-broadcasting-panel-scoffs-at-south-indian-movies.html
Source: http://cablequest.org/news/national-news/item/798-broadcasting-panel-scoffs-at-south-indian-movies.html