‘Pink’ director Shoojit Sircar requests authorities to ban kids’ reality shows

Filmmaker Shoojit Sircar who is known for his films Piku, Pink, Madras Cafe and others has raised a very important issue.

Sircar said not only such shows are destroying the kids emotionally and physically but also taking away their innocence from them in early ages.

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The director took to Twitter and requested the authorities to impose a ban on reality shows featuring children as participants. He wrote: “Humble request to authorities to urgently ban all reality shows involving children. It’s actually destroying them emotionally and their purity,” Sircar tweeted on Wednesday.

 

Humble request to authorities to urgently ban all reality shows involving children.it’s actually destroying them emotionally & their purity.

— Shoojit Sircar (@ShoojitSircar) July 4, 2017

Earlier this year, the filmmaker had also directed a short film “#ReleaseThePressure”, about children and exam pressure. It featured real letters written and read by teenagers to their parents. The letters articulated their distress during exam time.

When Firstpost got in touch with Sircar, and asked him what urged him to send out this tweet. He said “I am seeing this for quite some time. I think not only the children, but also the parents — the way they are pushing their children to be on these reality shows is something to worry about. Also, the way these reality shows are getting designed — the images, the people who watch it, the kind of things that children get out of that — is of no moral value. I think they are destroying the basic morality of the childhood. These children are just 6-7 years old. Not only the national programmes, I have been watching the regional ones and they are as pathetic. Even the judges who call themselves the creative brains of the country, the masters of the industry — Bollywood or Tollywood; how can they sit there and do this kind of crass (exercise) with children? Just for money?,”