A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud and Justice JB Pardiwala was hearing a plea highlighting disparaging remarks against PwDs in the movie Aankh Micholi.
It noted the jokes in the movie and underlined the distinction between humour that helps understand disability and humour which denigrates it.
"There have been jokes made on disabled for comic relief.
This lack of familiarity arises due to inadequate representation of disabled in dominant discourse.
We must distinguish disability humour which helps in understanding the disabled, but the other is disablement humour which denigrates it," the Court said.
A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud and Justice JB Pardiwala was hearing a plea highlighting disparaging remarks against PwDs in the movie Aankh Micholi. It noted the jokes in the movie and underlined the distinction between humour that helps understand disability and humour which denigrates it.
"There have been jokes made on disabled for comic relief. This understanding is obsolete under the new social model. This lack of familiarity arises due to inadequate representation of disabled in dominant discourse. We must distinguish disability humour which helps in understanding the disabled, but the other is disablement humour which denigrates it," the Court said.
