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| Aarushi murder plot aired despite |
| Despite a request from the I&B Ministry and the Talwar family, Aarushi Talwar murder case is still being used as a plot for a popular soap by Ekta Kap
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| INDIA
, 25-June-2008
8:18:53 AM |
| Despite a request from the I&B Ministry and the Talwar family, Aarushi Talwar murder case is still being used as a plot for a popular soap by Ekta Kapoor's Balaji Telefilms.
But even as the ministry decides to take up the matter with Balaji Telefilms, critics say that a clever way of weaving real life into drama may manage to keep Ekta out of trouble just yet.
A couple of weeks back, Nupur Talwar had approached the Commission for protection of child rights to get Star TV not to use the her daughter's murder case as a plot in the serial Kahani Ghar Ghar ki.
But this week, an episode was aired with a twist in the storyline but with similarities to the case. Though the storyline was not as obvious as the original promos.
Viewers have also strongly reacted to this. ''Its extremely distasteful and obviously we could immediately make out that this was the Aarushi murder case. The girl even looked like her. We are not fools you know,'' said one viewer.
But Star TV denies this and the spokesperson said, ''It is absolutely not true that the storyline is based on the Aarushi case.''
In fact after the telecast, the I&B ministry is planning to write to Ekta Kapoor again, something they have already requested before but have no legal teeth to implement on them.
I&B Minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunshi said, ''This is very unfortunate but I will write to Ekta Kapoor.''
Critics argue that imagination does not need a copyright, so will this create problems for Balaji?
Komal Nahata, a media critic said, ''There is nothing wrong with what Ekta has done. In fact she has been smart by using a very sketchy outline of the Aarushi case in the serial.''
But more speculation on the subject only means more intrusion into a little girl's life, in what has already become a media circus.
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