This issue emerges amidst recent developments concerning the IT Rules which requires streaming platforms like Netflix to take complaints from the public on the content that they stream. Netflix received a complaint on the horror film Ghost Stories, and wrote an email to the production company asking for the "reasoning" behind a scene in the film, according to filmmaker Anurag Kashyap's Instagram Story viewed by MediaNama on Tuesday evening. The complaint involved Kashyap's segment on the four-part anthology, specifically around a scene where an expecting mother miscarries and is shown "devouring on her own fetus". Ghost Stories was launched in January as a Netflix Original, produced by RSVP Movies. "So it has started..a complaint came to Netflix on Ghost Stories. This is the end," Kashyap complained in a caption on the Story, which is no longer visible on the filmmaker's profile. Netflix told MediaNama that as this was a partner-managed production, it reached out to the production company (RSVP Movies) to share the complaint. The complaint was likely submitted to Netflix as a grievance under the Information Technology (Intermediary Liability and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021. A description of the complaint sent by Netflix to the film's production company is included in this story. The film is rated for 16 year-olds and above in India, Netflix's second most mature rating, as of the publication of this report, and contains content descriptors warning viewers of violence, sex, and bad language. Why does this matter? This is the first content-related grievance that…
