OTT Has Become 'Desi Porn'

'This kind of content will destroy our culture.'

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The Supreme Court of India on April 28 raised serious concerns over obscene content on Over the Top (OTT) platforms and on social media, and stated some regulation is needed. The apex court also sought a response from the Union government, Amazon Prime, Netflix, ALTT, Ullu, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and X seeking their detailed perspective and replies.

The court action came on a public interest litigation filed by former Central Information Commissioner Uday Mahurkar urging the apex court to ban such OTT platforms which were promoting obscene and vulgar content in India. “Husband and wife having sex is a private matter, why do you want to showcase it in public? This is not good,”

Why did you go to court over vulgarity shown on OTT channels, what prompted it?

Let me take you back to 2003. There was a movie called Jism starring Bipasha Basu. The subject of the movie was the infidelity of a married woman. At that point I had raised objections over this movie's subject at a seminar that was held for a nationalist cause.

I had pointed out way back then that if we as a society continue to go like the movie Jism portrays, we will be over as a society.

Unfortunately, people who were closely associated with promoting Indian cultural values could not do much against it. Post Jism, the trend of making movies on such subjects started growing.

I took every community together, be it Muslims, Parsis, Sikhs, Christians and Hindus to save family values from movies like Jism. Unfortunately, I met with little success then. But what was your objection to Jism?