A few years back showcasing or speaking about sex was a big taboo in Bollywood but with the advent of the internet revolution and the expose it has taken the audience has made the Bollywood to break the taboo around sex talks and bedroom.
“The Internet revolution and convergence has brought this revolution. Indians are now exposed to world cinema at the click of a button. It was never the case before. Before Internet, everything was controlled by the censor board, and because there was so much of hush-hush element around it, it was specifically used in films to promote them,” said SMM Ausaja, a film historian. “That’s why we had so many B-grade movies, where people were assured of titillation. This can’t be the case now. You can’t use sex as an element to bring the audience into the theatre. You need to integrate it in the story, and it should seem natural,” he added.
Meanwhile, film and trade expert Girish Johar feels “the entire country is opening up and becoming mature”. “Talking about sex and its projection as a subject in films is no longer a taboo. There was a time when the word was taken in a hushed tone. Not any longer,” he said
