ULTAPULTA
Smoke screen
Jaspal Bhatti

Cigarette smoking is injurious to health. But it will be more injurious to the health of film and television producers because from August there’s going to be a ban on smoking on the screen.

Imagine a director, writer and producer smoking dozens of cigarettes and planning a scene where the villain is shown chewing sugarcane instead of the usual cigarette dangling from his mouth.

If it is a question of taking care of the moral health of the viewers then why ban only smoking? The scenes of violence, sex, rape, vulgarity and alcoholism should also be censored. If we cannot ban these, then at least we can have a statutory warning saying that the "revealing" scenes of Mallika Sherawat, Bipasha Basu, Neha Dhupia are injurious to the moral health of the viewers.

Also, if the heroine is clad in less than the specified limit, then an extra entertainment tax should be levied on the viewers. The question arises that of what good use can this extra vulgarity tax be put to? Probably to buy some clothes for the poor and needy who cannot afford them.

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