Spontaneous slangs

'Banspree'....a hashtag-ed word which caught my attention in a friend's FB-post sometime back.It was referring to the successive ban imposed on several recent ' allegedly outrageous'cultural ventures like 'AIB-roast' & "Fifty shades of grey". The respective reasons for such flak are 'excessive use of expletives' & 'obscenity'.Now, the big question is "Why now?".Such exhibition of unabashed emotion is definitely not unprecedented. Author EL James has predecessors like D.H.Lawrence who literally shook the world with his super-sensuous 'Lady Chatterly's Lover' which adorns bookstore-shelves even today...& so does Indian renditions of the 'Sex,truth & books'-genre like 'kamasutra'. However,in this post, I would be focussing on the topic of 'use of slangs in public medium '. There was a time when censor board was skeptical on the said issue & F-words in Martin Scorsese-Gangstermovies & suchlike would be silenced & replaced by 'hell'/4-stars in subtitles. Even today, expletives used by participants of reality shows like 'Roadies'/'Splitsvilla' are carefully 'beeped', though the uncut versions are readily available on Youtube. Likewise, Raghu Ram, the ideator behind these MTV-shows, in reply to stern criticism from Aamir Khan, pointed that 'AIB-video's are released only on the internet, with viewer-discretion advice, & also argued on Aamir himself condoning random 'gaali-galoj' in his own production 'Delhi belly' .Indeed,on celluloid, a far more flexible stand is taken, especially in bengali films, as directorslike Buddhadeb dasgupta, Goutam ghosh, Rituparno ghosh, Anjan Dutta, Kaushik Ganguly, Srijit Mukherjee ,Mainak Bhowmik & Raj Chakraborty have made films, inundated with swear-words that have worked wonders with a conceding audience. In fact, it started with as long back as Tapan Sinha's 'Raja' about anti-socials in the 70's & the culmination can be said to have been achieved by director Q, who have actually ended up making a film, with the title itself being an expletive, not to mention many more throughout the film. Now, the mastermind makers behind these so-called 'work-of-art's, when questioned about the suitability of such abundant usage of 'beepable's , have readily justified " We thought such characters would be talking like that only, in our real lives". Fair enough! as long it's the genuine reason & the whole ordeal is not for garnering bigger TRPs. While ideators behind such films/shows continue to coin 'censorship' as 'moral policing' & a threat to freedom-of-expression, it is also very important for creative people being aware 'Where to draw the line' .Even Satyajit ray used slangs in a couple of his films, but they never felt contrived, as they were demanded by the situations , hence spontaneous!