One of the first examples of grievances filed since the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting issued the Information Technology (Guidelines for Intermediaries and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021 earlier this year, is the complaint that Nextflix India has received against Anurag Kashyap’s short film in the 2020 anthology, Ghost Stories.
According to a Mid-Day report, the complainant objected to a scene in the short film in which Sobhita Dhulipala’s character eats a foetus after experiencing a miscarriage. According to the complaint, “the scene is not required for the storey, and if the creators wanted to include such a scene, there should have been a trigger warning for women who have gone through the trauma of miscarriages.”
According to the report, complaints must be filed within 24 hours and addressed as soon as possible. According to the report, a Netflix India spokesperson stated, “As this was a partner-managed production [RSVP Movies and Flying Unicorn Entertainment], we reached out to the production company to share the complaint.”
Anurag Kashyap took to his Instagram story and wrote, “So it has started… A complaint came to Netflix on Ghost Stories. This is the end.” While the story is not visible on the platform anymore although, it was seen by MediaNama.
