R for 'R' Rated Movie Poster in Hyderabad

One of the Telugu movies currently showing in Hyderabad has some pretty obscene imagery. I wonder where are those nationalist fanatics who say Sunny Leone’s two piece bikini is ‘against Indian culture’. I want to know how they would defend the placing of ‘R’ rated posters on billboards, bus stops and buses, which everyone, including children can see. I wonder how that affects the lives of the 4 million people who reside in this city. It surely affects me.

As if the heat of the summer sun is not enough to put up with, I am forced to look at steamy images of men and women making out while travelling to work and back home. How did the posters of this movie get on to the billboards? Who gave them permission and what are they spending on this intense marketing campaign. It is obvious that Hyderabadi people have an appetite for ‘R’ rated movies but I have never seen such a wide marketing campaign.

Why are people not up in arms about these posters? When we believe that the clothes women wear are the primary causes of rapes, why can’t we blame such movies for showing women as carnal objects? What goes around will come around, always. These posters are going to affect the psyche of impressionable minds and it is going to manifest in our lives some way or another.

I know that having enough water to drink in this drought should be my only concern but I cannot shake off the feeling that something very wrong is going on. As a society, when we condemn movies such as Fire, India’s Daughter, Bandit Queen and Black Friday for showing the truth, why don’t we condemn a movie that encourages and facilitates crimes against women and children?

Is the pro-hindutva brigade getting something out of this? Are they being paid to ignore the filth in front of them or is this an acceptable form of Kama Sutra and Sunny Leone is not?