Critical summarisation of OTT in light of censorship in india

Abstract

The Indian Cinema always renowned for the grace, elegance and beauty. The Indian and International audience always admired the charm of Indian Cinema. The recent decades the Entertainment industry generates substantial revenue to the state. The growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has outset the most appealing and fascinating Entertainment content. The emergence and flourishing industry of Over-The-Top platforms (OTT) have been intimate to general public. The (OTT) has been the most economic, easily accessible preferential entertainment. The traditional Entertainment Industry was exhaustive in its forms and presentation, the disability of which has been overcome by OTT. The traditional Entertainment was broadcasted with limitations and curtails of Censorship. Censorship means a way of prohibition to publish or deliver the matter to the public in an objectionable way (S.R.Myneni., 2014). The film censor means cutting the indecent material. The Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC), the regulatory film body of India, strike down the offensive, nudity, violence or subjects objectionable from the films. Nevertheless the OTT platform streaming the content irrespective of age bar has overcome the hurdles of Censorship, which would otherwise trim the publication of objectionable content. In India the codification of Indecent Representation of Women Prohibition Act 1986, aimed to prohibit and regulate the Representation of and portrayal of women in mainstream media (Indecent Representation Of Women (Prohibition) Act, 1986) (Indecent Representation Of Women (Prohibition) Act, 1986). In India the different broadcast or films are covered and governed under different codification statues such as The Cable Networks Television (Regulating) Act 1995, governs television the exhibition of films is controlled under Cinematograph Act 1952. The provisions of the Cinematograph Act are primarily applicable to those films that are shown in theatres and not applicable to the ones which are transmitted through the medium of the internet. Any certifications of a film by CBFC do not apply to the contents streamed on OTT. (Censorship plays : regulating obscene content on OTT media websites) Adolesance and the underage to view the content which would otherwise should be prohibited for them. In this paper the Authors try to study the critical analysis of OTT with regards to Indecent Representation of Women Prohibition Act 1986, in the light of Censorship.