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The apex child rights body NCPCR has asked Netflix to stop streaming Bombay Begums citing inappropriate portrayal of children in the web series, written and directed by Lipstick Under My Burkha filmmaker Alankrita Shrivastava.
On Thursday, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) sent a notice to Netflix and asked the OTT platform to provide a detailed action report within a span of 24 hours. In case, it fails to do the same, appropriate legal actions will be taken against the streamer.
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Bombay Begums, Netflix India’s six-part series that premiered on International Women’s Day.
In under six hours, we see a
spectrum of women pre-pubescent to menopausal, urban elite to underprivileged, big-city movers-and-shakers to small-town lasses, banker to bar dancer navigating their way through cut-throat Bombay.
A
plethora of issues loveless marriages and infidelity; infertility and surrogacy; boardroom politics and workplace sexual harassment; teenage heartbreaks and substance abuse; alternative sexualities and gender power plays are touched upon.
So much so that you wish there was less of it. And more of the less.
The five leads of Bombay Begums | Photo: Netflix
NCPCR asks Netflix to stop streaming Bombay Begums as it portrays children wrongly
Fri, Mar 12 2021 15:23 IST |
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March 12 : The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has demanded that Alankrita Shrivastavaâs web series Bombay Begums, currently streaming on Netflix, be banned immediately. The NCPCR has objected to some of the scenes featuring the showâs youngest protagonist Aadhya Anand.Â
On different Twitter handles, netizens have condemned some objectionable scenes featuring Aadhya Anand, who plays a rebellious 13-year-old. This has eventually brought the show under NCPCRâs scanner.Â
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Indian Child Rights Body Calls on Netflix to Halt Bombay Begums Series
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Indian government body, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, has sent a notice to Netflix calling on it to stop streaming “Bombay Begums,” on the grounds that the original series could incite “abuse and exploitation.”
The notice, issued on Thursday, demands that Netflix stop streaming the series, which bowed on March 8, within 24 hours, and provide a detailed action report, failing which “the Commission will be constrained to initiate appropriate action” under Section 14 in the Commissions for Protection of Child Rights Act, 2005.