On Monday, 6 March, the Delhi High Court ruled that the language used in the TVF show College Romance is “obscene, profane and vulgar”, as per a report by Bar and Bench. The court backed an earlier order to file an FIR against the platform and its actors.
Most certainly, this Court notes that this is not the language that nation’s youth or otherwise citizens of this country use, and this language cannot be called the frequently spoken language used in our country,” said Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma.
The judge said she found the language “so obscene and vulgar” that she had to use earphones to watch episodes.
“The court had to watch the episodes with the aid of earphones, in the chamber, as the profanity of language used was of the extent that it could not have been heard without shocking or alarming the people around and keeping in mind the decorum of language which is maintained by a common prudent man whether in professional or public domain or even with family members at home,” the judgment said.
In her order, Justice Sharma referred to a particular scene where the male protagonist named ‘Bagga’ is using foul language and the same is later repeated by the female character.
The judge said that “the bug of obscene, profane and bad language of ‘Bagga’ cannot be allowed to pollute the language of people.”
The court was hearing a petition by TVF challenging the Court’s order of FIR, based on a complaint that vulgar language was used in Season 1 Episode 5 of College Romance. The complainant alleged that not only is the title of the episode, ‘Happily F***ed Up’, vulgar but also it showed “indecent representation” of women.