The new Censor Board chief may put a rest to redundant abuses in films

Pahlaj Nihalani, the newly appointed censor board chief has taken rather strongly the matter of erratic abuses needlessly put in films to market with undue merit. According to him, there’s no way normal people abuse in the manner actors do on screen. In an interview to Bollywood Hungama, Nihalani spoke about what he would do as the chairman of CBFC.

"I am definitely going to change the way films are censored, so that once a film is given certificate there is no controversy or doubts about its credibility. There will accountability and no room for ambiguity in the censoring process," he said. On the larger prospect of abuses used in films, Pahlaj said, "Normal civilized people don't abuse the way we see in films, I don't think civilized people from any culture use the maa-bahen language in their everyday conversation. Most people, even the poorest of the poor, do not interject their speech with gaalis. Then why does a particular kind of cinema insist on hurling invectives as though they were life-saving drugs?" 

With the kind of intent Nihalani has shown in the very early days of his reign, there are strong signs that he will not easily let the filmmakers use cuss words and abuses, let alone the violence. Only the coming cinematic days will reveal if the decisions are going into the interest of cinema.