Controversial serials

IN Media Watch Briefs | 29/07/2008

A Tamil TV channel owned by the PMK party is set to air yet another controversial serial based on a real life incident involving former chief minister M.G. Ramachandran. The serial, "Marakka Mudiyumaa?" (Can it be forgotten?), is based on a shooting incident in 1967 that left him partially speech-impaired but also resulted in catapulting the DMK party to power. The PMK-owned Makkal TV had recently serialised a controversial mini-series on forest brigand Veerappan, killed in a police shootout in 2004, to which his widow had raised serious objections.

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Amazon resisting voluntary censorship

The new term for self censorship is voluntary censorship, as proposed by companies like Netflix and Hotstar. ET reports that streaming video service Amazon Prime is opposing a move by its peers to adopt a voluntary censorship code in anticipation of the Indian government coming up with its own rules. Amazon is resisting because it fears that it may alienate paying subscribers.

Let the games begin

Clearly, the run to the 2019 elections is on. A journalist received a call from someone saying they were from Aajtak channel and were conducting a survey, asking whom she was going to vote for in 2019. On being told that her vote was secret, the caller assumed she wasn't going to vote for 'Modiji'. The caller, a woman, also didn't identify herself. A month or two earlier the same journalist received a call, this time from a man, asking if she was going to vote for the BSP.