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Director Bala has expressed his
displeasure over the double standards
of the regulatory authorities on
the publicly displayed content in
a TV channel. He was referring to
the censor board’s cuts in
his film Naan Kadavul. Quite a few
dialogues in the film had to be
muted according to the board’s
recommendations as they allegedly
described very violent actions.
Most of these dialogues were the
ones spoken by Rudran, the character
played by Arya, who is an Aghori.
Aghoris are found in Kasi and are
known for their ritual of eating
corpses off the funeral pyre. This
was the reason behind quite a few
of Rudran’s dialogues being
muted.
But now, almost eight months after
the movie’s release, director
Bala has expressed his annoyance.
This is because of a program that
has been aired on a TV channel recently
which explicitly shows the images
of Aghoris picking out corpses from
the pyre in Kasi. Bala is reportedly
angry over such visual content being
aired on TV channels, which is watched
by a large number of people, while
dialogues depicting the same were
not allowed in his movie. He has
felt that this is clearly a case
of double standard and that his
freedom of expression had been unfairly
curbed.
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