Censorship In The Movies: The Bowdlerization Of The World

We all have been brought up hearing fairy tales and have been inculcated with the traditional ideas of how the good overpowers the evil, no matter how strong the ill forces are and how the karma take overs every deed of ours. But as we are growing up how often have we seen the practicality of such ideas? It feels like most of the learnings were a bluff. The practice of filtering out the broad ideas or the harsh realities from the texts which we have learned since childhood called as bowdlerization has somewhere affected our understanding of the world. The world is not as simple as our fairy tales but the tales which we have been taught also weren’t authentic they were bowdlerized with an intention to protect the children from the crudeness of the world but it has indeed done no good to us. An individual should be open to all the ideas irrespective of its nature and should be given a choice to consume whatever pleases him.
Popular texts such as Shakespeare’s Othello, Romeo and Juliet and Merchant of Venice and many more texts which we have been taught in our high school and colleges are

There are so many incidents where the media has filtered out the facts and brought it to the public view, for instance when it comes to ministers or some influential person they mostly bowdlerize or show a different picture of the entire event. Media is such a strong force in today’s world and it still caters to such things and keeps the public in dark. Entertainment field such as movies and short films undergoes a rigorous check by censor board and then it gets released. There have been a lot of controversy on a lot of movies, songs or certain scenes. In a democratic country like India things get banned or censored because they are considered misfit according to the norms of the society and culture rather people should be given a choice to adopt the ideas which they consider