{"id":795,"date":"2017-12-30T06:21:28","date_gmt":"2017-12-30T06:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/149.28.147.243\/?p=795"},"modified":"2017-12-30T06:21:28","modified_gmt":"2017-12-30T06:21:28","slug":"tamil-web-content-is-venturing-forth-boldly-where-cinema-and-tv-fear-to-tread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/2017\/12\/30\/tamil-web-content-is-venturing-forth-boldly-where-cinema-and-tv-fear-to-tread\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamil web content is venturing forth boldly where cinema and TV fear to tread"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As a friend and I sat together watching Stephen Colbert on YouTube, I couldn\u2019t resist sulking\u00a0over what seemed like a gaping hole in our film and television landscape that holds authority to account. \u201cWe can\u2019t do this in Tamil, no channel will buy it, no writer will be spared,\u201d my friend said by way of consolation, which rang true. We do live in a world where artists and filmmakers screen their content to various fringe groups for approval before release. We live in the era of controversy, where everything from a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstpost.com\/entertainment\/padmavati-controversy-real-reason-behind-the-clamour-to-ban-sanjay-leela-bhansali-film-is-clash-of-inflated-egos-4221397.html\">woman being a queen<\/a>\u00a0to a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewsminute.com\/article\/case-against-jyothika-and-director-bala-use-expletive-naachiyar-teaser-72162\">woman swearing on screen<\/a>\u00a0causes an outcry among upholders of culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstpost.com\/entertainment\/tamil-web-content-is-venturing-forth-boldly-where-cinema-and-tv-fear-to-tread-4281613.html\">In this essay<\/a>, I write about how web content creators went the extra mile in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a friend and I sat together watching Stephen Colbert on YouTube, I couldn\u2019t resist sulking\u00a0over what seemed like a gaping hole in our film and television landscape that holds authority to account. \u201cWe can\u2019t do this in Tamil, no channel will buy it, no writer will be spared,\u201d my friend said by way of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essays","category-firstpost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}