She was speaking at a panel titled ‘Artistic Freedom: Mapping out the entertainment story,’ that also had Sona Mahapatra, Sobhita Dhulipala, and Aparna Purohit, head of India originals, Amazon in attendance. A report in the Economic Times said that top brass from RSS has held at least six ‘unofficial’ meetings with Netflix and Amazon executives in Mumbai and New Delhi. ″The RSS wants to restrict content ‘critical’ of the Indian standpoint on Kashmir or defamatory to Hindu symbols and the Indian Army,” the ET report said. According to a report in the Mint, the BJP government’s is in the process of drafting guidelines for Netflix, Amazon and other streaming platforms. There have been several complaints filed by various people, alleging that content on Netflix offended their religious sentiments.

Source: Huffington Post October 21, 2019 03:22 UTC