The government-appointed National Commission for Protection of Child Rights on Thursday asked streaming platform Netflix to stop airing the...
The government-appointed National Commission for Protection of Child Rights on Thursday asked streaming platform Netflix to stop airing the webseries, Bombay Begums, saying its contents may result in the abuse and exploitation of children.
The child rights body issued a notice to the streaming platform, and asked for a detailed report within 24 hours on the action taken by it. The organisation also warned Netflix that it would otherwise initiate “appropriate legal action” against the American company.
Bombay Begums, a six-part series launched on Netflix on March 8, follows five women whose lives interlock in Mumbai. Directed by Lipstick Under My Burkha filmmaker Alankrita Shrivastava, the show explores ambition, a working woman’s efforts to maintain a work-life balance, and her complex relationships with men, women, colleagues, bosses, children and her own body. It stars Pooja Bhatt, Shahana Goswami, Amruta Subhash, Plabita Borthakur, Aadhya Anand, Rahul Bose, Vivek Gomber and Danish Husain.
The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights said it received a complaint from two twitter handles about some scenes of the show. “From normalisation of minors indulging in casual sex we now hate webseries showing minors having cocaine,” the child rights body quoted one of the tweets. “Screen grab from Bombay Begums where a 13-year-old is snorting coke as the party...
