Complaint registered against Anurag Kashyap’s Ghost Stories, he says ‘This is the end’

Anurag Kashyap’s Ghost Stories which was part of a four-movie anthology released on Netflix last year is being sued for its content. And this complaint is one of the first to fall under the Information Technology (Guidelines for Intermediaries and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021, which were drafted by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in February of this year.

According to a Mid-Day report, the complainant objected to a scene in the short film in which Sobhita Dhulipala’s character eats a foetus after having a miscarriage. According to the complaint, “the scene is not required for the plot, and if the creators wanted to include such a scene, there should have been a trigger warning for women who have gone through the trauma of miscarriages.”

Prior to the Rules’ publication, digital news media was largely unregulated. Many people see the new laws as an attempt to moderate and impose restrictions on digital creators. “So it has started… A complaint came to Netflix on Ghost Stories. This is the end,” Anurag posted on Instagram in an Instagram Story that is no longer visible on his profile but was seen by MediaNama.

 

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Ghost Stories, an anthology film featuring short films by directors Zoya Akhtar, Dibakar Banerjee, and Karan Johar, was released on New Year’s Day in 2020. It was the filmmakers’ follow-up to their 2018 anthology Lust Stories.

Netflix India has previously faced backlash for shows such as Sacred Games and A Suitable Boy, while Amazon Prime Video has faced similar issues with The Family Man and Tandav. 

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