Meet the Indian teenager who is unable to watch the film he has acted in

NEW DELHI - It was Aarush Varma’s big screen debut. The 16-year-old made grand plans to watch the film’s premiere at a theatre, soaking in the public adulation. His family even envisaged inviting his classmates and friends for a special screening of the movie.The film, OMG 2, a Hindi drama that flags the importance of sex education in schools, was given an adult certification by India’s Central Board of Film Certification , making its viewing permissible only to those above 18.

His anguished father realises Vivek has not committed any wrong, but has instead become a victim of sexual health misinformation as well as bullying. The coyness of India’s censors has, however, not stopped the film from prompting a wider discussion on the lack of sex education in Indian schools and its growing importance.

India is the most populous country in the world, with more than 30 per cent of its population comprising adolescent and young people between the age of 10 to 24. Teen pregnancies and child sexual abuse continues to be a major problem for India. According to a government survey conducted between 2019 and 2021, the percentage of girls aged 15-19 who are either already mothers or pregnant stood at 6.8 per cent, only marginally lower from 7.9 percent in 2015-16 to 6.8 percent.

While access to such entertainment content has made people a “little bit more accepting” about sex, she noted there’s also been a “reactionary sort of resurgence of prudishness” that is happening as well. “I took it as an opportunity to tell him whatever I wanted to tell him, maybe much in advance because I realised that if there’s someone in his circle who’s talking about porn, then there is much more they would be talking about.”

Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)

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