Complaint registered against Anurag Kashyap’s ‘Ghost Stories’; Netflix India

Ghost Stories’ is a 2020 Indian Hindi-language anthology horror film, consisting of four short film segments features Mrunal Thakur, Avinash Tiwary, Janhvi Kapoor, Raghuvir Yadav, Sobhita Dhulipala, Vijay Varma and Pavail Gulati and the series is directed by Karan Johar, Dibakar Banerjee, Zoya Akhtar and Anurag Kashyap.

However, It was released on Netflix on January 1, 2020. As per the sources,Netflix last year, is facing a complaint for its content. However, this grievance is one of the first to fall under the Information Technology (Guidelines for Intermediaries and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021 that was framed in February this year by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.

As per the complaint , the objection is against a particular scene in Anurag Kashyap’s short film. According to the sources, the complainant has expressed that a scene where Sobhita Dhulipala is seen devouring the foetus from her miscarriage is not required for the story and that if the makers wish to keep it, then there should be a trigger warning for women who have gone through the trauma of miscarriages.