Channels to curb sleazy remixes

<div class="section1"><div class="Normal">MUMBAI: The Mumbai police on Thursday said several music channels have assured them that they would abstain from showing "obscene videos of re-mixed songs".<br /><br />"We had issued notices to prominent channels like <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">MTV, Channel V</span> and <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">ETC</span> as well as other music channels for showing videos of remixed songs and their representatives appeared before us and assured that such videos would not be shown,"<br />DCP Sanjay Apranti said here on Thursday.<br /><br />Apranti said makers of films like <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Tezaab, Kamakshi</span> and <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Model</span> also appeared before the police following notices served on them over the obscene posters of the films put up in the city.<br /><br />"They were co-operative and removed the posters soon after meeting us," he said.<br /><br />Meanwhile, Manish Makhija, husband of actress-producer Pooja Bhatt, who was issued notice over obscene posters of her movie <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Rog</span>, also appeared before the police and informed that Bhatt was abroad and would appear before them as soon as she returned to India, Apranti said.<br /><br />The statement of the distributor of <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Rog</span>, Himanshu Brahmbhat, who also appeared before the police, was recorded, he said.<br /><br />The social service branch of Mumbai police had last month issued notices to Bhatt and several other filmmakers over obscene posters of their movies.</div> </div>