ACTION BY BCCC ON COMPLAINTS RECEIVED FROM 16 APRIL 2014 TO 31 DECEMBER 2015 S.NO Programme Channel Total Nature of Complaints Telecast date of the Action By BCCC Number of programme reviwed Complaints by BCCC Received A : SPECIFIC CONTENT RELATED COMPLAINTS A-1 : Specific Content related complaints Disposed 1 Na Aana Is Desh Lado Rishtey 1 Episode-1, 03/09/15 (1:59PM): Gajendra slaps his wife Sunhari 03/09/2015 The Council viewed the episodes and did not find the content denigrating or after she slaps him and confronts him for having killed the domestic 13/10/2015 objectionable. The said depiction was to reflect the villainy of the characters help whose modesty was also was outraged by Gajendra. He then and was construed to be a part of the story track. The complaints were retaliates and keeps using the word “saali” for his wife. He says, I DISPOSED OF. am a man and I have the right to do anything. If you resist, I will hit you as long as you do not have teeth in your jaws to eat and there will be no tongue in your mouth to speak a word. You have an identity because you are Gajendra Singh’s wife and people will feed you only because I am your husband. Such dialogues inflict mental torture and reveal the narrow thought process of men. Episode-2, 13/10/2015 (1:59PM): Amma Ji’s first daughter-in-law is pregnant. One of the family members suggests this is not her son’s child but from her ex-lover. Her husband overhears the conversation between Amma Ji and her relative. He then calls his wife by various names and tells her he will kill her and the foetus. He says he will kill her and her lover and send them to hell. 2 Bandini Zee Anmol 1 Santu is a lower caste character and a woman admonishes her just 16.10.2015 BCCC viewed the episode and found that the channel had gone overboard due to this. She asks Santu how she dared to worship the Tulsi with the depiction. The channel has been advised to be extremely sensitive plant as people from lower castes are not even allowed to look at in depiction of cast angles in the story for future episodes. The complaint Tulsi. Then she pours Ganga jal over the Tulsi plant and tells was DISPOSED OF. Santu, that her maid is better than her. She says, I do not know why my brother married you. You neither have the complexion nor culture. I do not talk to lower caste people in the morning. Characters in the episode have been shown to misbehave with Santu and treat her as untouchable. No disclaimer has been shown. 3 Doli Armano Ki Zee Anmol 1 Episode-1, 16/10/2015 (9:49PM): Urmi needs bone marrow to 16.10.2015 BCCC examined both complaints and found it was part of the drama that the save her son Ishan. Doctors advise her to transfer bone marrow 20.10.2015 channel wishes to depict through the episodes. The complaints were from Ishan’s brother or sister. Urmi requests her ex-husband DISPOSED OF. Samrat to help her conceive a baby. Samrat uses double-meaning vulgar sentences. He asks whether she has slept with anyone after he left her. “In absence of proper food, people generally start taking fast food.” Has she been blank for all these years? Through all such dialogues he seems to be casting aspersion on the woman’s character. Episode-2, 20/10/2015 (9:32PM): Urmi’s ex-husband Samrat compels her to dance before him. He says she has to do “mujra” to please him. Her request for conceiving a baby has been rejected because she slapped him. Samrat has been shown to mentally and physically torture his ex-wife and make objectionable comments. Page 1 of 84 S.NO Programme Channel Total Nature of Complaints Telecast date of the Action By BCCC Number of programme reviwed Complaints by BCCC Received 4 Sarojini: Ek Nayi Pehal Zee TV 1 The programme shows women in a despicable state. A student 20.07.2015 BCCC viewed the episode and decided to ignore the complaint as it had who fails in Class XII is not rusticated even though a lady teacher received many theme-based complaints against the serial. In an earlier lodges a complaint. The boy’s father, a powerful landlord, has decision, BCCC had found that the programme’s theme is women donated money for the school building. The father is portrayed as empowerment. It is set up in the rustic interiors of Uttar Pradesh and the an arrogant person who keeps the entire family hungry. He also story is about the journey of an orphan ‘Sarojini’, who is shown as a strong, punishes his family members for stealing food in his absence. educated woman. She is married in a family that has a regressive and chauvinistic patriarch ‘Dushyant’, who dominates the household. The serial reflects this fight between the negative character portrayed by Dushyant and the gregarious character portrayed by Sarojini. The programme’s intent is not to show skewed notions of male dominance, but to display the patriarch’s negative character and resistance of the female character. The complaint was DISPOSED OF. 5 Begusarai & TV 1 Episode-1, 12/08/2015 (9:57PM): Lakhan Thakur puts two bullets 12.08.2015 BCCC viewed the episodes and opined that the character of Lakhan has in his pistol. He tells his wife Punam that they will play a game. He 17.08.2015 been depicted as someone having extreme reactions and thoughts. He puts says he will fire the first shot on him and the second on her. The 21.08.2015 his wife through different tests that his twisted mind conjures. Through such wife keeps crying, asking him not to do so. He stops playing this depiction, the channel does not seem to focus on different methods of game when Punam’s brother comes into the room. This depicts torture but the unique husband-wife relationship enveloping hate, love and domestic violence. It also gives ideas to people on various ways of twists. The complaint was DISPOSED OF. torture. Episode-2, 17/08/2015 (9:57PM): Bindiya intentionally pours tea over herself only to get Punam reprimanded. Bindiya then tells all family members that Punam did this because she advised her to stay away from her ex-lover. Punam’s husband Lakhan Thakur takes her to the room and makes her stand on a slab of ice so that her head and body is always cold. Such torture promotes domestic violence. Episode-3, 21/08/2015 (9:08PM): When Lakhan Thakur asks about Punam about her ex-lover being crowned as Bahubali of Begusarai, she says he will prove to be a great ruler. This makes Lakhan Thakur angry and he ties Punam’s hand and feet. He also puts a tape on her mouth. This is gross depiction of domestic violence. 6 Rihaayi Zindagi 1 Episode-1, 13/08/2015: An uncle instigates his nephew by saying 13/08/2015 Episode-1, 13/08/2015: BCCC viewed the episode and found that the that a “real” man is one who hits his wife. He says it is always good 14/08/2015 conversation between an older man and younger man veered towards to marry a very young woman as she can give you a child every insanity when they discuss the treatment of women. The Council decided to year. An old woman cannot conceive. Any depiction which claims caution the channel that any future aggravation of similar nature could women to be only child producers is fit to be condemned. attract action. BCCC also decided to caution the channel that such misses cannot be allowed to recur in future episodes and it must be extra careful Episode-2, 14/08/2015: A 13-year-old girl is shown married to a about such content. The complaint was DISPOSED OF. much older man. Suggestive scenes of the man taking this girl to the room and establishing physical relationship have been shown. Episode-2, 14/08/2015: BCCC viewed the episode and found that scenes, This encourages child marriage. which included violence and establishing physical contact, have been shown suggestively and are not prolonged. Nor are such scenes glorifying the actual activity. The complaint was DISPOSED OF. 7 Boys Big Magic 1 Three boys enter the Dean’s room in his absence and use the 21.10.2015 BCCC viewed the episodes and decided against any intervention since the massage chair he has bought from Bangkok. They speak double- programme is shown during watershed hours. The channel was, however, meaning dialogues and make provocative sounds. One boy sits on asked not to repeat such episodes during day time ever. The complaint was the chair and vigorously shakes his hand, apparently holding his DISPOSED OF penis. He later says he could not control himself and is sorry. The humour shown is very objectionable. Page 2 of 84 S.NO Programme Channel Total Nature of Complaints Telecast date of the Action By BCCC Number of programme reviwed Complaints by BCCC Received 8 PMS: Pyaar Marriage Shh Big Magic 1 An expletive like word has been used. When a man goes out to 05.10.2015 BCCC viewed the episode and found the content to be in violation of the self- meet his friends wearing a shirt gifted to him by his wife, his friends regulating guidelines.