While it’s believed that beauty lies in the eyes of a beholder, it can’t also be disputed that what’s perceived to be objectionable is a matter of subjective satisfaction.
While dealing with noted film maker K A Abbas’ petition seeking “U” certificate for his 1970 film ‘A Tale of Two Cities’, which was certified “A” by the Censor Board, the then Chief Justice of India M H Hidayatullah had ruled that the standards of judging what’s objectionable “must be so framed that we are not reduced to a level where the protection of the least capable and the most depraved amongst us determines what the morally healthy cannot view or read.”
“If the depraved begins to see in these things more than what an average person would, in much the same way, as it is wrongly said, a Frenchman sees a woman’s legs in everything, it cannot be helped,” is how Hidyataullah summed up the perception on what is often a matter of heated debates between ban mongers and a large section of the society which believes in life without policing.