Differently abled and derision have often gone hand in hand in mainstream Hindi cinema with numerous instances of impairments, visual, speech, physical, and others, being used to get laughs, mostly unkind. A trend activists and lawyers hope will end with the Supreme Court's recent 'game-changing' verdict. Stereotyping differently-abled persons in cinema perpetuates discrimination and inequality, the apex court said last week while asking filmmakers to refrain from misleading portrayals and laying down terms such as crippled, and, spastic, that should not be used.
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