ACTION BY BCCC ON COMPLAINTS RECEIVED FROM 1 SEPTEMBER 2017 TO 15 MARCH 2019 A : SPECIFIC CONTENT RELATED COMPLAINTS A-1 : Specific Content related complaints Disposed S.NO Programme Channel Total Nature of Complaints Telecast date of Action By BCCC Number of the programme Complaints reviwed by BCCC Received 1 Man Woman Wild Discovery HD 1 Mykle Hawke Pierce and his wife Ruth England 20/09/18, BCCC admitted the complaint and viewed the episodes. In the World host the show. The couple shows the ways for 25/09/18 & first episode, host Mykle Hawke Pierce asks his wife to cut a survival in different terrains. The show focuses on 27/09/18 dead buffalo’s leg. She tries and says she cannot do it. Mykle Hawke teaching his wife survival skills like starting then himself cuts off the legs. In the second episode, Mykle tells fire without the aid of modern implements, locating his wife that survival in extra-ordinary circumstances requires and treating water sources and eating non- drinking one’s own urine. He fills an empty coconut shell with his traditional food like insects and harmless wild urine and offers it to her. The wife drinks it and vomits. In the plants. They are shown cutting off the leg of a dead third episode, Mykle breaks open an egg which has the bird’s buffalo and bringing it back to their tents to eat it as foetus and eats it. After viewing the episodes, BCCC felt such a survival food. The visuals of a buffalo’s carcass programmes are part of the infotainment genre where the focus look disgusting and offend good taste and decency. is more on survival in remote and trying circumstances. The Hawke is shown peeing and storing his urine in a complaints were DISPOSED OF. coconut shell and then he drinks it and also asks his wife to drink it in order to have liquid intake. His wife looked hesitant to drink her husband’s liquid waste but somehow drinks it. The visual seems vulgar and offends decency. They are shown cutting fish from the middle and then eating its entrails raw which itself looks indecent and against good taste. In another scene, they are shown eating a bird’s foetus in its egg which makes it indecent and nasty. 2 Howzzat Fox Life 1 It shows sensational photoshoot of female models. 10/09/18, BCCC admitted the complaints and viewed the episodes. It found Dressed in micro bikinis, the models have been 21/09/18, that all episodes have sensuous photo shoots of models in shown obscenely. The camera is panned and 25/09/18, 07/10/18 bikinis and thongs at various exotic locations. Since the episodes zoomed to take shots that highlight their breasts, & 20/10/18 have been shown during watershed hours, BCCC decided buttocks and thighs. The models themselves are against any intervention. The Council, however, directed the seen being flirtatious and tantalizing the viewers by Secretariat to seek a written clarification from the channel that touching their bodies. A model gives a side pose to these episodes are not repeated during normal viewing hours. suggest that she is not wearing anything on her The complaints were DISPOSED OF. hips and as if she is nude. 3 World’s Weirdest National 1 It shows weirdest and out-of-the-world behaviors of 22-10-2018 BCCC admitted the complaint and viewed the episode. A woman Geographic HD people. It shows how the parasitic larvae like botfly was inflicted with an unwanted bug during her trip to Belize. The can live in almost any part of the human body, even botfly had entered her scalp. She tries various measures to in the scalp. A woman named Vanessa is seen remove it, including smoking it out, but to no avail. A man is suffering from the same problem as she’s having a shown to remove the botfly’s larva from the girl’s scalp through botfly in her scalp after she returned from a trip to some surgical/medical instruments. BCCC did not find the Belize. First, she tries to smoke it out, but to no depiction disgusting or disturbing, but on the contrary, helpful. avail. Next, she tried a high-tech medical remedy The complaint was DISPOSED OF. tape over the larva’s breathing hole and the worm emerges which was living in woman’s scalp. The method of removing larva from a girl’s scalp shown is disturbing and disgusting. 4 Vicky donor MTV 1 During the film’s telecast, the channel has not 29-08-2018 BCCC admitted the complaint. The caller says he wishes to muted derogatory words. A client of Dr. Chaddha speak to Dr. Chaddha. On being told by his assistant that Dr who has paid an advance of 30% for quality sperm Chaddha is busy, the caller gets furious and tells him that Dr tells his compounder that he will “fuck” Dr. Chaddha has taken an advance of 30% for quality sperms which Chaddha’s mother and sister in his house. The he has not provided. He then says, “Uske ghar jaakar uski maa words have not been beeped. behen karoonga, usko pot doonga.” The complaint was not found maintainable as no expletive was used. The complaint was DISPOSED OF 5 Heart beat Nat Geo 1 In the song Heartbeat , the main characters are 30-10-2018 BCCC viewed the music video. It found that the visual depiction Music HD getting intimate. The couple is shown kissing each had a couple kissing and getting proximate on a car’s backseat. other at the car’s backseat which looks indecent. BCCC believes that like films, music videos are also certified by There are close-ups of the kissing scene which CBFC before being aired on TV channels. There being no should have been avoided by the channel. intervention requirement, the complaint was DISPOSED OF. 6 Bhabhi ji ghar par & TV 1 Angoori, the female protagonist, used the word 16-01-2019 BCCC viewed the episode. It found that Angoori uses the word hain ‘Ramayan” for the word ‘Romance’. The channel ‘romantic’ but her accent makes it sound like ‘ramantic’. Angoori makes indecent/prurient fun of Hindu Gods under then tells male protagonist Vibhuti that she cannot share her the garb of comedy. Appropriate action should be romance with anybody except her husband. She says it is not taken against the channel ‘Satyanarayana Katha’ where ‘prasad’ is being distributed. Found to be exaggerated, the complaint was DISPOSED OF. 7 Dil to Happy Hai Star Plus 7 It was shocking and disgusting to see acid attack 12-02-2019 BCCC admitted the complaint and viewed the episode. As Ji’ on a woman. Also, the content which shows the alleged, there was no acid attack in this or the subsequent female lead being harassed and abused is episode. The male protagonist falls from a lift in an under- regressive. construction building and fatally injures himself. The story track shows the younger brother shooting at his elder brother’s widow, holding her responsible for his death. The complaint was DISPOSED OF. 8 Kulfi Kumar Star Plus 33 The new track of Baal Sudhar Kendra is appalling. 05-03-2019 BCCC admitted the complaint and viewed the episode. Kulfi, the Baajewala’ It is prohibited to show child shelter homes, their child protagonist, is sent to a children’s reform home (bal sudhar videos and photos. Such shows break all child grih) by her stepmother. The child believed that she is being sent security norms. The content is condemnable and to a boarding school. After learning that she is not at a boarding harmful for the younger generation. school, she pleads with the warden to make a phone call to her house. Her request is refused. The inmates hold Kulfi responsible for the ouster of one of them. The depiction is not prolonged. However, since the issue concerns children at a reform home, BCCC decided to ask the channel to be more cautious in depiction. The complaint was thus DISPOSED OF. 9 Nimki Mukhiya Star Bharat 5 The rape scene was gruesome. Such excessively 18-02-2019 BCCC admitted the complaint and viewed the episode. Nimki violent content cannot be shown in a primetime Mukhiya is outraged by her husband but she fights back. She serial. Minds of millions of women and children stabs him with a pair of scissors and hits him before being would be affected. It covered more than 30% of the overpowered. The violence was shown suggestively and rape entire episode. No responsible channel would ever was implied. The sequence of outraging the modesty of Nimki air such content without editing. Showing a becomes evident only through dialogues and later through the scroll/disclaimer that the channel does not support confession of the male antagonist. BCCC did not find the violence against women is a mere formality. depiction disparaging or denigrating to women and decided In the garb of highlighting women’s plight in a against any intervention. The complaint was DISPOSED OF. misogynistic patriarchal rural set-up, the entire narrative revolves around the sadistic portrayal of atrocities akin to rape, molestation, domestic violence, vandalism, debauchery, alcoholism, gangsterism, hooliganism and weapon firing. A serial with such excessive violence does not deserve to be telecast in primetime, whatever the demand of the story. A rape victim’s interview, where media persons 22-02-2019 BCCC admitted the complaint and viewed the episode. It refers trash all guidelines issued by the Supreme Court, to the story track after Nimki is outraged.