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SCC Ontne we Eton, © 202296 Puokeing PA. i SCC. ire sect iy ine Pitod For Salah Gad, Natoal Law Unverty DOSNISEAF ScC oun ne caton ns inn sccoinecon 1© 2022 EBC Publshing Pvt.Ltd, Lucknow. 2022 SCC OnLine Ker 785 2022) 2 KLT 1 In the High Court of Kerala at Ernakulam (BEFORE P.V. KUNHIKRISHNAN, J.) Peggy Fen. ... Petitioner; Versus Central Board of Film Certification, IIS and Others ... Respondents. W.P. (C) No. 28288 of 2021 Decided on February 10, 2022 Advocates who appeared in this case: By Adv. C.A. Anoop By Advs. S. Manu Shajl Thomas R4 By Adv. Jijo Paul Kallookkaran R5 By Adv. Smt. Sangeetha Lakshmana Jen Jaison R2 By Adv. Grashious Kuriakose (Sr.) ‘Smt. Deepa Narayanan, Sr. GP ‘The Judgment of the Court was delivered by P.V. KUNHIKRISHNAN, J.:— This writ petition is filed by an advocate with a prayer to issue a writ in the nature of mandamus directing the respondents to remove the Malayalam movie “Churuli” from the ‘Over The Top Platform’ (for short ‘OTT Platform’) as expeditiously as possible. The second prayer is to Issue such other writ, order, and direction directing the respondents as this Hon'ble Court deems fit in the interest of Justice. “Pleadings of the parties” 2. The petitioner is an advocate by profession and is having an office at Ayyanthole, Thrissur. ‘Churuli’ is @ Malayalam language movie directed and co-produced by renowned director Lijo Jose Pellisseri and written by S. Harish. The movie was released fon the OTT Platform in SonyLIV on 19.11.2021. According to the petitioner, even though the movie ‘Churuli’ is capable of invoking @ sense of curiosity and mystery in the minds of the audience, there is an overdose of foul language used in the movie. It is pleaded that the movie contains obscene and filthy languages which are opposed to public morality and tranquility. According to the petitioner, every character in the movie uses at least a single offensive word in every dialogue they deliver. The filthy languages are used lavishly and without any curtain. It is the case of the petitioner that the words and language used in the film are not one that can be used publicly and openly, It is the case of the petitioner that, a person of common parlance will not use such languages even privately at home. According to the petitioner, the filmmaker had used such language deliberately with the intention to get more attention to the movie. Apart from using filthy words, the petitioner submitted that there are a lot of usages which is totally against the morality of ladies and objectionable to all ladies’ common conduct. The words used in the movie outrages the modesty of ladies and children and a person who is watching this movie will feel irritated and disgusted, the petitioner submits. It is pleaded that since a movie which is supposed to be a form of art, it influences common people of the society and it Is common among people to imitate the dialogues of the Malayalam movies and if this similar situation happens with the movie ‘Churuli’, it will affect the public morality and tranquility. It isSCC Online Web Edton, © 2022 EBC Publehing PV. Lid Page 7 Saturday, July 30, 2022 Printed For: Saksham Gaikwad, National Law University SCC Ontine Web Eaton pw: secontine com 1© 2022 EBC Publshing Pvt.Ltd, Lucknow. the Rules. 12) The movie “Churuli” does not contain any dialogue or action or suggestion instigating Violence against State or any matter adversely affecting Sovereignty, Integrity of the State, Friendly relations with other Nations or any matter provoking or promoting hatred among communities/religions or affecting Communal harmony. In view of the above discussion, the Committee has come to the conclusion that the film *Churuli” has not made any statutory violation or any criminal offences, It is in full compliance with Rules and Laws in this regard, The depiction of characters in the movie, their language, dialogues etc. falls under the freedom of artistic expression which is the exclusive realm of the creative freedom of artists, and Police has no objections to the Movie, its characters or their language used in the Movie.” Analysis of the facts and resolution 9. Heard Advocate C A Anoop for the petitioner, ASGI for the 1° respondent, Senior Counsel Grashious Kuriakose instructed by Shaji Thomas For the 2% respondent, Advocate Sangeetha Lakshmana for the S respondent, and the Government Pleader for the 7* respondent. 10. The main grievance of the petitioner is that ‘Churuli, which is a Malayalam feature film contains obscene and filthy language which opposes public morality and tranquility, In the pleading in the writ petition also, it Is only stated that the film contains obscene and filthy languages, which opposes public morality and tranqullity According to the petitioner, a person of common parlance will not use such languages even privately at home. Its also stated that the release of a movie of this kind on a public platform will attract the offences under the Penal Code, 1860. According to the petitioner, if this movie is allowed to watch by children and teenagers, there is a chance to imitate the language in the film by them, Except stating that the film contains obscene and filthy languages, there are no other averments in the writ petition regarding the rules based on which the OTT platform is functioning and whether there is any mechanism to check about the allegations raised in the writ petition, Simply stating in the writ petition that a movie contains an overdose of foul, filthy, and obscene language, this Court cannot direct the authority to remove the movie from the OTT platform. Moreover, the prayer in the writ petition Is to Issue a writ of mandamus directing the respondents to remove the movie ‘Churull’ from the OTT platform. The prayer is so vague. , lm. Respondents 4 to 6 are actors in lm. It is also stated that the fourth respondent is a Co-producer, The petitioner prays to issue directions to the Central Board of Film Certification and to the Director and other artists of the film to remove the film from the OTT platform. There is indeed a prayer to issue direction to the 2™* respondent also. The relevant provision which is applicable to OTT platform movies is also not mentioned in the writ petition, It is only mentioned that the exhibition of the movie amount to the commission of criminal offences under the Penal Code, 1860. When a writ petition is filed with a serious allegation that a feature film violates certain provisions of the Penal Code, 1860, at least the prayers in the writ petition should be clear and specific. An actor or the director or the producer of a film cannot remove the movie from the OTT platform. Therefore, according to me, the writ petition lacks sufficient pleadings and the prayers in the writ petition itself are vague. 11. As far as the exhibition of films in the OTT platform is concerned, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology framed the Rules, 2021 in the exercise of the powers conferred by Section 87 of the Information Technology Act, 2000. It was
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