The debate about censorship for OTT content is not dying in India. After the Government trying to rein the OTT platform, the Supreme Court on Thursday said that there should be some screening of shows and web series being telecast on the OTT platforms. The entire controversy has started with Amazon Prime Video’s Tandav Web series which is alleged to have hurt the sentiments of a community. Experts say that censorship is going to arrive sooner or later for the OTT content.
When Censorship arrives, it will end even before it started in the Telugu film industry. OTT is in a very nascent stage in Tollywood. “Creative freedom is always good to produce diverse content. A free world would mean some bold theme contents would have come in Telugu as well. But then, even before the Telugu industry started exploring such genres, the censorship screws are tightened,” a source in the industry told us.
There were a few cuss words in some OTT projects dubbed by various OTT platforms in Telugu. “The vulgarity should be curbed no doubt but the line between the boldness and vulgarity should be respected for creative freedom. That freedom has been misused to some extent which brought this situation,” a film expert opined.
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