Complaint Filed Against Anurag Kashyap's Short Film In Netflix's Ghost Stories
Anurag Kashyap's segment in Netflix's Ghost Stories continues to gather attention. The short film follows Sobhita Dhulipala's character who goes through a miscarriage, has landed in legal trouble.
Anurag
Kashyap's
segment
in
Netflix's
Ghost
Stories
continues
to
gather
attention.
The
short
film
follows
Sobhita
Dhulipala's
character
who
goes
through
a
miscarriage,
has
landed
in
legal
trouble.
Netflix
India
has
received
a
complaint
against
the
short
film
from
the
2020
anthology
series.
Reportedly,
the
complaint
is
one
of
the
first
examples
of
grievances
to
be
registered
after
the
Ministry
of
Information
and
Broadcasting
formulated
the
Information
Technology
(Guidelines
for
Intermediaries
and
Digital
Media
Ethics
Code)
Rules
2021,
that
were
set
into
place
earlier
this
year.
According
to
a
Mid-Day
report,
the
complainant
raised
objection
to
a
scene
in
the
short
film
where
Sobhita
Dhulipala's
character
eats
a
foetus
after
suffering
a
miscarriage.
The
complainant
claimed
that
the
scene
did
not
give
an
insight
into
the
film
and
could
have
been
avoided.
"The
scene
is
not
required
for
the
story,
and
if
the
creators
wished
to
add
such
a
scene,
there
should
have
been
a
trigger
warning
for
women
who
have
gone
through
the
trauma
of
miscarriages," the
complaint
read.
According
to
the
new
rules
set
in
2021
by
the
Ministry
of
Information
and
Broadcasting,
the
complaints
must
be
registered
within
24
hours
and
addressed
at
the
earliest.
Anurag
Kashyap
reportedly
reacted
to
the
new
complaint
in
a
now-deleted
post.
MediaNama
reported
that
the
filmmaker
took
to
his
Instagram
stories
on
Tuesday
(July
27)
and
wrote,
"So
it
has
started...
A
complaint
came
to
Netflix
on
Ghost
Stories.
This
is
the
end."
The
Mid-Day
report
quoted
Netflix
India
spokesperson
as
saying,
"As
this
was
a
partner-managed
production
[RSVP
Movies
and
Flying
Unicorn
Entertainment],
we
reached
out
to
the
production
company
to
share
the
complaint."
Ghost
Stories
also
features
shorts
from
directors
Zoya
Akhtar,
Dibakar
Banerjee
and
Karan
Johar.
The
anthology
was
a
follow-up
to
the
filmmakers'
2018
anthology
Lust
Stories,
and
was
released
on
New
Year's
day
in
2020.