FTV banned in India again?

[ambandla]

This morning this was announced in CNN-IBN. Didn't watch full news.

[deepak.krishnan]

Yah! read it in the newspaper..... The report said that the ban is for 2 months

Hmm why?.

[ambandla]

they might have showed some sex content

[Pathik]

i doubt ny1 watches ftv?

[soham]

Is it banned on Dish TV as well?

[ambandla]

Dude, it's banned means it's banned irrespective of service provider

[lalam]

Huh what why? I love watching that channel

[NucleusKore]

Will give the channel more popularity when it comes back :-P

[amitava82]

I wonder how these fashion TVs are called so.. I mean the kind of dresses are designed by the designers and shown on the channel, its totally impossible to wear in Public places. I'm not only taking about in India but also in other counties too.. If you can't wear then then whats the use of designing.. What a foolish concept and rubbish designing. total waste of time, money, energy.

[prasad_den]

Was banned for the Midnight Hot show...

[blackpearl]

Originally Posted by amitava82

I wonder how these fashion TVs are called so.. I mean the kind of dresses are designed by the designers and shown on the channel, its totally impossible to wear in Public places. I'm not only taking about in India but also in other counties too.. If you can't wear then then whats the use of designing.. What a foolish concept and rubbish designing. total waste of time, money, energy.

Exactly!! totally useless.
Make some strange designs that nobody wears and you become a fashion designer.

[ssdivisiongermany1933]

Who is Govt of india to teach us what we have to view or not , It is totally depend on us to decide, they try to be moral policing

why not implement sharia to remove all obsence from TV etc . bloody jokers

[deepak.krishnan]

Originally Posted by blackpearl

Exactly!! totally useless.
Make some strange designs that nobody wears and you become a fashion designer.

LOL

Originally Posted by lalam

Huh what why? I love watching that channel

According to the newspapers it is for 2 months.....uske baad jee bharke dekh lena yaar!!!

[joey_182]

yaar..itna hi shounk hai to Satelite TV on internet...panga kya hai...
and i m waiting for AXN TO COME BACK...

[blueshift]

AXN is already back.

I dont see this channel but why the Government acts like a 'moral police' everytime? Why dont they ban those idiot daily soaps? Is nudity only 'injurious to health'?

[ambandla]

hey, AXN is already back. I am watching in every now and then.

Regarding FTV, Some of their hot shows feel us really good.

Ban those channels airing Daily serials. That's something that should be done for the welfare of nations

[Apollo]

Originally Posted by The Hindu

In the case of FTV, the action has been taken for airing programmes such as Midnight Hot, featuring "skimpily dressed and semi-naked models."

Such programmes, according to the Ministry, are against good taste and decency, denigrate women and could adversely affect public morality. The ban has been ordered as per Section 20(2) of the Cable Television Networks Regulation Act, 1995.

The action follows complaints to the Ministry by television viewers.

Maybe we should all complaint to the Ministry regarding these daily soaps that we're all so sick of.

What is the complaint going to be for those shows?.

Do you think they listen oh please ban the shows because they are so boring and waste of time?.

[blueshift]

What the Cable Television Networks Regulation Act also says:

No programme should be carried in the cable service which:-
Offends against good taste or decency:
...

Encourages superstition or blind belief;

Denigrates women through the depiction in any manner of the figure of a women, her form or body or any part thereof in such a way as to have the effect of being indecent, or derogatory to women, or is likely to deprave, corrupt or injure the public morality or morals;

The cable operator should strive to carry programmes in his cable service which project women in a positive, leadership role of sobriety, moral and character building qualities.

Read more here

[amitava82]

you can count my vote against daily serials..

[Apollo]

As far as the question of banning soaps goes, we don't have a chance. It's not about what the complaint should look like but more about how many really try to complain. You see, most of us don't realize that the soaps are primarily projected towards a predominantly female audience that don't have much else to see(or maybe they have so much time that they are happy to have those daily dozen soaps coming at them). Those who hate the soaps simply don't have to tune into them, and sadly this is a very small number which counts for nearly nothing when pitted against the soap addicts. Coming back to the banning of FTV, is it a fair call? I don't know. Unless this specific controversial show (Midnight Hot) has been aired in the prime time viewing hours(as opposed to late night), for which the concern of the complaining public is understandable - no one really enjoys having their 'unsuspecting' wards tuning into shows on television that they're not supposed to.

[eddie]

^ You never saw midnight hot? Oh man you missed some nice stuff It didn't come in prime time...midnight hot meant midnight so its obvious that action from the government was really uncalled for and these daily soaps show women in much more derogatory way then any fashion tv stuff. I mean one woman trying to steal another woman's husband...then latter one crying her heart out like some spineless creature and what not. Is this not derogatory? That is how we want our women to be? Or precisely, that is how our "government" want our women to be? We really need "V" from "V for Vendetta" to deal with our current government.

[Vyasram]

if the govt wants to act as a moral force, they should really take steps to ban the lok sabha tv(violent contents,partial nudity,strong language) they are spoiling the youth with that show

[kumarmohit]

Seriously man, its easy to ban FTV because in India only a very very small segment watches FTV. Easier said than done, just imagine the crowds of Feminist and women rights activists who would like to give you a 'friendly visit'.

And frankly all of those who are blaming the govt of being the moral police, how many of you have the guts to go and appeal in the court against the ban?

Go to I&B ministry and file an application as per the RTI to know the reason why they banned FTV.

Go directly to SC and file a writ petition that your Fundamental right to freedom of expression has been arm twisted by this act.

Remember that a lot of people still do not have cable connection in India, they still have to watch the Govt propaganda called DD.

[ax3]

FANTASTIC NEWS ! ! !


FTV now & later they might BAAN DOORDARSHAN 2 ......... 4 showing ACTION sequences in PARLIAMENT ........... clips of lungi baabus .......


mayb W. bros just took idea (4 matrix) after viewing our SCENE from WMAV aired on AXN ......


cool na ...........

Tell them to ban everything.

[abhijit_reddevil]

Originally Posted by Apollo

Originally Posted by The Hindu
In the case of FTV, the action has been taken for airing programmes such as Midnight Hot, featuring "skimpily dressed and semi-naked models."

Such programmes, according to the Ministry, are against good taste and decency, denigrate women and could adversely affect public morality. The ban has been ordered as per Section 20(2) of the Cable Television Networks Regulation Act, 1995.

The action follows complaints to the Ministry by television viewers.
Maybe we should all complaint to the Ministry regarding these daily soaps that we're all so sick of.

WTF!!!Who complained against that channel?. I used to like midnight hot.. Or maybe I ask, why were the complainants staying up so late to watch that channel?

[Aberforth]

Originally Posted by ambandla

they might have showed some sex content

There is no sex content on that show. It is a Fashion channel, not Sex channel.

Originally Posted by amitava82

I wonder how these fashion TVs are called so.. I mean the kind of dresses are designed by the designers and shown on the channel, its totally impossible to wear in Public places. I'm not only taking about in India but also in other counties too.. If you can't wear then then whats the use of designing.. What a foolish concept and rubbish designing. total waste of time, money, energy.

Designers test around with concepts and believe it or not, in developed countries people wear designer dresses to parties and social gatherings. And if I were to go grocery shopping, the only thing I'd wear is casuals, that isn't what fashion inductry is about.

Originally Posted by blueshift

I dont see this channel but why the Government acts like a 'moral police' everytime? Why dont they ban those idiot daily soaps? Is nudity only 'injurious to health'?

Agreed, I wondered if nudity was such a problem why don't they do research in AIIMs so that babies are born wearing burkas? And what do they do about nude street beggars and children running around, who risk getting abused. We live in a sickly hipocritc nation.

Originally Posted by digitized

WTF!!!Who complained against that channel?. I used to like midnight hot.. Or maybe I ask, why were the complainants staying up so late to watch that channel?

Probably parents who are so IQ challenged that they can't block their children from watching a channel. I have a simpler solution for them, ban cable TV for stupid parents.

[amitava82]

Originally Posted by Aberforth

Designers test around with concepts and believe it or not, in developed countries people wear designer dresses to parties and social gatherings.

I don't have any experience or I've never seen any programs on social gathering (of Developed countries) where women wear those kinds of weired dresses. Of course they do make some good clothes but majority of them failed to cover up females private areas. And if you think appearing half naked in a party or wearing a weired dress which does not suite the party environment, is being social, then believe me its NOT.