The Madurai Bench of the Madras High court today dismissed petitions seeking a direction to police to register cases against two Tamil films 'Kathi' and 'Pulipaarvai', holding that it had become a fashion to oppose any movie, to be released, on the presumption that it was opposed to religion, caste, community, religion, and race.
"Court cannot pass orders on presumption, assumption, conjectures and surmises," Justice N.Kirubakaran said, dismissing pleas filed by one V.Ramesh.
The petitioner had sought a direction to indirectly ban exhibition of the two movies by registering cases against them on the presumption that 'Kathi' was full of anti-Tamil speeches and insulted eight crore Tamils, and 'Puliparvai' showed assassination of Master Balachandran,son of slain LTTE supremo Prabhakaran, in a very poor light.
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The judge also said that if there was any law order problem by showing the movies in the theatres, police would take care of it. "Once the film is certified for public exhibition by the statutory board, the petitioner on assumption of law and order problem cannot approach police to register the complaint," the judge said.
However, the judge condemned movies produced in the last few years which contained only "negative message through negative characters.Most of the recent movies have become the source of clues for the criminals to commit offences.The worst part of the cinema industry is portraying love in school,in which school students elope with boy friends/lovers."
The judge wanted film producers to consider what impact such movies have on the psychology of the students of impressionable age. There was violence, obscene scenes, and portrayal of rowdies as a hero.The film industry cannot shirk its social responsibilities putting the blame on people stating that that people liked such stuff, the judge said.
