New OTT rules: More web series to be axed in coming weeks?

‘Operation Cleanup’ seems to have started  in  all earnest on  all the major streaming  platforms with all references to religion, politics and real-life characters wiped out.

One major filmmaker who has been asked to clean up his forthcoming series rues, “You can’t even make a mythological which at one time were considered the safest genre. Now  anyone can get up and raise an objection to anything to do with religion. So sorry, no mythological, no Ramayan no Mahabharat, no Bible or Quran either. The  role model for a safe series on  the Indian digital platform is the Disney  products. Loads  of children, harmless fun and adventure. Even here when you have children in a series  you have to make sure they behave as per the rules  of decency."

"You can't show them attending rave parties or using bad language because as we all know, children don't  do these things,” he ends sarcastically.

Filmmakers with political scripts have reportedly been given two options:  change the name of  the country or make  something else. As for religion, you can’t  show any pictures  of  Gods  or Goddesses in any frame lest someone objects to the unacceptable placing of  a photo of a deity or even the exclamation, ‘Oh God’ could be damaging to a series, as  you can’t take God’s name in vain!