Anurag Kashyap’s Ghost Stories In Trouble As Complaint Filed Against It Under Rules 2021

Before the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting formulating the Information Technology (Guidelines for Intermediaries and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021 earlier this year, digital news media was largely unregulated. As per a recent report, the first examples of grievances under Rules 2021 have been received by Netflix India against Anurag Kashyap’s short film in the 2020 anthology, Ghost Stories.

As per Rules 2021, in order to curtail the creative freedom of OTT platforms and content creators, streaming giants need to have a redressal mechanism in place to address viewers’ grievances. And now, five months into its inception, the first ramifications of the guidelines can already be felt. Read on to know all about it.

As reported by Mid-Day, the complainant filed against Anurag Kashyap’s Ghost Stories has objected to the scene in which the protagonist, portrayed by Sobhita Dhulipala, is seen eating the fetus from her miscarriage. As per the report, the complaint reads, “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.”