Netflix refused to censor a dialogue where former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is called a 'wimp' in its series Sacred Games, PTI reports. "My instructions are that we don’t want to change the word," senior advocate Chander Lal, who is representing the streaming company in the case, told the Delhi High Court. The judges hearing the case were quoted as saying during arguments, "Nobody is pressing or forcing you. You take your own decision, whether you want to change the word or not. We are not going to compel you." In a previous hearing in July, Netflix told the court that they had replaced the English subtitle for the Hindi word 'fattu', now translated as 'wimp', used to describe the former Prime Minister. That change had been made before the petition was filed in the Court. The next hearing in the case is in September. The case The Delhi High Court case was filed by advocate Nikhil Bhalla because of dialogues about former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. In one line, for instance, the character Ganesh Gaitonde calls Rajiv Gandhi a wimp in Hindi, which a previous version of the subtitles translated as ‘pussy’. Bhalla petitioned for the scenes with such dialogue to be removed. Soon after that complaint, Congress president Rahul Gandhi — also the former PM’s son — posted this tweet: https://twitter.com/RahulGandhi/status/1018123203728822272 While Bhalla is associated closely with the Congress party — he is chief coordinator of its Delhi chapter's legal & human rights committee — he did not withdraw his…
