Dezvyn | Director of Photography| BSc | WICA

Cinematographer. I love the movies, food, gaming, sunsets and long walks on the beach.

[Ram Gopal Varma @RGVzoomin]

CENSOR should be BANNED

Censoring Films Actually is an INSULT to the AUDIENCES
In an era of smartphones, global streaming, and access to infinite information, to pretend that a government appointed committee (What is the qualification of its members ?) can shield adults from the film makers perspective of any truth is not only outdated, but it’s also idiotic
Here’s the fundamental hypocrisy… If an adult is mature enough to vote for the leader of the country , raise families, run businesses, why the hell can’t they decide for themselves what to watch?
On one hand , the government trusts the adults with the ballot, which shapes the future of more than a billion people and at the same time thinks a scene in a film might spoil them
That’s not safeguarding society but infantilizing it… An 18 year old can choose the leader , but needs some random committee member to decide if hearing a cuss word or watching a shot is corruptive
A movie is dramatic storytelling from the perspective of a film maker and it’s the viewers prerogative to agree or disagree
Cutting a scene for theatrical release is laughable because the uncut version will hits torrents, Telegram, and all international platforms within hours.
Case in point is the head banging scene in OBSESSION which after the censors cut it , must have been seen by 10 times more people on Insta reels than who actually watched the film in the theatres
Censorship doesn’t hide content .. it actually creates more demand an in the times of AI tools and borderless internet, gatekeeping is a joke

Forcing trims on language, sensuality, violence, or ideology turns cinema into a dishonest and hypocritical slop.
When everyone including children can binge watch brutal news and unlimited online extremes, how come only cinematic moments trigger bans.

Censorship isn’t about protecting values because cinema’s s job is also to reflect one’s perception of an issue , which is what creates debate , the foundation of democracy
Censor ship primarily assumes that adults are children who need to be parented by some government appointed committees (God knows what their qualification are to decide what millions should watch or not ?)

It’s not cuts what we need, but it’s to be clear what the film contains , and then have respect for the audience to decide for themselves to watch or not

I think all producers and directors should stop crawling on their knees before a non thinking, uncreative agenda oriented bureaucracy that understands neither art nor audiences while they give arbitrary cuts
Every time the industry accepts cuts, negotiates “compromise,” or do self censoring to avoid trouble, they embolden those so called gatekeepers and weaken the entire ecosystem by making the entire industry a soft target.

I think it’s time for the industry to come together to challenge the very existence of the censor board in its present form both in courts and public discourses.
Democracy demands free expression and In a connected world, isolating and mutilating cinema is not just being blind and deaf … it is actually suicidal for our growth. #BanTheCensor

[Dezvyn | Director of Photography| BSc | WICA @Dezvyn]

@suchin545 The best comment (so far), I've read is that if Dakota Johnson plays Dr Doom, you get the Materialists all over again.

[Dezvyn | Director of Photography| BSc | WICA @Dezvyn]

Wondering how much @THRIndia_ charges to post fluff pieces like that aim to absolve predators. What a shame and what a sham THR India is turning out to be!

[The Hollywood Reporter India @THRIndia_]

Exclusive: Cinematographer #PratikShah, accused of inappropriate behaviour and sexual misconduct by multiple women, has issued a formal apology acknowledging his past actions, following a year of public silence.

Read the feature by @JustinJRao here.
https://t.co/U8ewyvAX69

[Dezvyn | Director of Photography| BSc | WICA @Dezvyn]

@Saranyagop @IndiGo6E they soon be changing to "better late than never"

[Dezvyn | Director of Photography| BSc | WICA @Dezvyn]

@rahulpuri Welcome back :D

[Dezvyn | Director of Photography| BSc | WICA @Dezvyn]

@car0linehaskins Uhm, there is a paywall.

[Dezvyn | Director of Photography| BSc | WICA @Dezvyn]

@bookmyshow_sup @bookmyshow Here you go.

[Dezvyn | Director of Photography| BSc | WICA @Dezvyn]

Dear @bookmyshow , why do you keep messing up the UI of your website, making it impossible to use or navigate? At the moment, it is impossible to filter movies on the basis of language. The only available language filter is Sinhalese.

[Dezvyn | Director of Photography| BSc | WICA @Dezvyn]

A live action movie should look like its live action. The trailer of #Moana is indistinguishable from the random AI slop that's generated nowadays and I'm not talking about the CG elements...just the basics. Maybe this is how Hollywood acclimatizes us to AI generated visuals.

[Ramesh Srivats @rameshsrivats]

I think the only thing standing between India and the T20 World Cup is the Narendra Modi Stadium.

[𝓔𝓶 ♡ @emkenobi]

Amazon MGM Studios which is valued at almost $10 billion is releasing a movie about He-Man this year which will easily make millions of dollars. Meanwhile, the literal creator of the character, who without him that movie wouldn’t even exist, has to rely on a GoFundMe for his medical care. Fucking insane.

[Dezvyn | Director of Photography| BSc | WICA @Dezvyn]

Hi @anubhavsinha Sir, is it possible to get PVR/ INOX/ Cinepolis to include english subtitles with some of the screenings of Assi. I always catch shows that have subtitles embedded, is very helpful and am really looking forward to watching the movie!

[Dezvyn | Director of Photography| BSc | WICA @Dezvyn]

@RajaSen @Mint_Lounge How was this second season slow 😶‍🌫️.
Absolutely gripping.

[Ram Gopal Varma @RGVzoomin]

CENSOR BOARD is OUTDATED

Not in the context of just @Actor_Vijay ‘s #JanaNayagan ‘s censor issues but in an overall manner, it is truly foolish to think that the censor board is still relevant today

It has long outlived it’s purpose, but it’s being kept alive out of laziness to debate it’s relevance now , and it is the film industry as a whole which is mainly responsible for this

We live in a time where a 12-year old with a phone can watch a terrorist execution filmed on a GoPro, a 9-year-old can stumble upon hardcore porn, and a bored retiree can binge extremist propaganda, indulge in conspiracy theories , from anywhere in the world, uncut, uncensored, algorithmically pushed. All of it is available instantly, anonymously, and without a gatekeeper.

At the same time, everybody in every wake of society speak in abusive language from new channels to YouTubers and from other apps ..If you quote that age old belief that cinema is a powerful medium , don’t ignore the fact that the social media has far more reach than cinema .and it is full of political venom, communal poison, character assassinations, live, uncensored shouting matches in the name of debates.

And in this reality, for the honourable censor board to believe that cutting a word in a film, trimming a shot, or blurring a cigarette will “protect society.” is a Joke

The censor board was born in an era of scarcity when images were rare, access was limited, and the state controlled the media . Cinema halls were crowd points. Newspapers had editors. Television had schedules. Control made sense then.
But today, any form of a control is impossible because no one can no longer decide what people should or should not see

In such times as now, censorship doesn’t prevent exposure… it only insults the viewers .
We are supposed to have smartness to decide who should rule us but not what we want to see or hear ???

What the censor board actually does now is not protection, but only theatrics . It’s a ritual of authority in Oscar worthy performances where scissors replace thinking, and moral pretence moves around in a disguise called responsibility.

The same society that freely scrolls through graphic violence on social media suddenly becomes “concerned” when a filmmaker shows something in a theatre

This hypocrisy is dangerous

Censorship assumes people are children forever as if they aren’t even aware what all things children have access to?

Cinema is not meant to be a classroom where lessons are taught . They are mirrors , view points , expressions and opinions meant to entertain
The job of the authorities is not to edit or cut them out, but to trust citizens enough to decide for themselves ,which is the main point of freedom of speech and expression, guaranteed under the constitution

If the argument is “think of the children or adults who are like children “it takes very less intelligence to understand that they cannot be protected by blunt scissors wielded by committees ,whose own personal tastes pass off as public morality also not to forget their bias and agendas .

Age classification makes sense. Warnings of the content makes sense. Censorship does not.

Continuing to defend the relevance of the censor board today is like insisting on a watchman for a building whose walls have already been broken and everyone can see what’s inside

The world has already moved on to so many platforms which are unfiltered and unsupervised and so the painful question is whether the authorities have the courage to admit that they are obsolete, and more than that, whether we as a film industry collectively have the will to question them on the same
So instead of raising this topic once in a while over a particular film , the fight should be with that particular system of thinking which created the censor board

[Dezvyn | Director of Photography| BSc | WICA @Dezvyn]

I knew @SmashingPumpkin coming to India was too good to be true and I also had a feeling that the organizers, who bagged the gig, probably hadn't heard a single song of theirs & had zero interest in promoting the gig or doing it justice. Thanks for nothing @district_india

[Dezvyn | Director of Photography| BSc | WICA @Dezvyn]

@bookmyshow_sup @bookmyshow Done.

[Dezvyn | Director of Photography| BSc | WICA @Dezvyn]

Dear @bookmyshow
Please change the movie title screen back to how it originally was. The current one that shows you "trending" searches is totally useless. The previous one that showed you language, movie titles and screening experience in one go was efficient and neat.

[Ramesh Srivats @rameshsrivats]

The good thing about Bangalore auto fares being raised is that now, when the driver refuses to come, you are saving more money.

[Dezvyn | Director of Photography| BSc | WICA @Dezvyn]

@Collider Why are the ages of actors being mentioned in each and every headline? I thought I was imagining it until I noticed three articles randomly doing the same thing. How does it matter?

[Dezvyn | Director of Photography| BSc | WICA @Dezvyn]

@_PVRCinemas I'm asking for the list of movies in the blackout list.

[Dezvyn | Director of Photography| BSc | WICA @Dezvyn]

Dear @_PVRCinemas

Which movies in the month of June and July fall under blackout movies?