It’s another day and another Amazon original is in the limelight for all the wrong reasons. This time it’s Prime’s ‘Mirzapur’ which has created a “Tandav”. Early morning, news came that the Supreme Court has issued a notice to the makers of ‘Mirzapur’.
Apparently, the complaint was made by a journalist SK Kumar, who raised issues with Mirzapur the series, and claimed that the show is maligning the real image of the town Mirzapur in Uttar Pradesh by showing excessive violence and gore. This is the second FIR against Mirzapur, with the first being registered on Sunday night by writer Arvind Chaturvedi complaining on the same and adding that it also hurts religious sentiments.
Now to follow up the FIR which states that Prime Video’s Mirzapur maligns the image of the city Mirzapur by showing it in wrong light, a team of UP Police have boarded the train for Mumbai to investigate into the matters against the makers.
Seeing the situation, it makes you wonder that if the disclaimers provides by all the shows and movies even are relevant in today’s time or not. Do you recall just before the beginning of a movie or a show even if it is telecasted in the TV channels there comes a short disclaimer which suggests that “the content which is about to be showcased is completely fictional and the makers does not intend to harm any person either living or dead with the content.”
But in today’s time, where everyone has become touchy and sensitive towards everything, even the disclaimers don’t seem to prevent the makers from getting attacked left right, and centre. Seeing the recent example of Mirzapur, despite the clarification of makers that the series and it’s characters aren’t similar to any person living or dead and is a complete work of fiction, a case has been registered against the makers for maligning the image of the city Mirzapur.
It’s interesting to see that even an official statement beforehand in the form of disclaimers don’t guarantee a smooth sailing of the content in today’s digital times.
This might not apply for every show out there as every other show gets into the limelight and controversies for different reasons but in Mirzapur’s case it’s an interesting topic to view. And seeing the growing cancel and boycott culture, it seems safe to say that disclaimers beforehand mean nothing in the OTT market.