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THE High Court has set aside the ban on smoking in films. "Now I will see who is going to stop me from smoking in Chandigarh," said film star Ajay Devgan after reading this news. His chief chamcha said, "Sir, they have allowed smoking on screen, not in public. Remember you were caught smoking at the Chandigarh airport."
Smoking is not good for health but it certainly is healthy for the freedom of the filmmakers. If a scene requires to show a vamp, we have to make her hold a cigarette and a glass of wine so as to show her bad morals, we cannot make her hold a faluda kulfi instead. Moreover, when a rape scene is shown in a film it is not with the motive of promoting such crime. As long as there is no commercialism behind these kind of scenes there shouldn’t be any objection. A sari manufacturer once approached the producer of Mahabharata and requested him that if he used his company’s brand of sari in Draupadi’s vastraharan scene, then he would sponsor the scene. The producer got excited about the idea. But the director refused because branded saris did not exist at the time of the Kauravas and Pandvas. The film censor board should be smart enough to judge whether a smoking scene in a film is adding to its glamour quotient or it is, in fact, the dire need of the scene. Shah Rukh Khan might be happy now that he can smoke again without guilt on screen at least. A producer went to Shah Rukh to persuade him to sign for his film. "Sir, the film has three action scenes, five romantic songs, one car chase scene and 20 long smoking scenes"!
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Devgan
said, "We can set the camera anywhere, whenever I feel like
smoking and if anyone comes to stop me we can always say it is for the
screen."