What we leave out

The rule

We judge the line, its scene and our own commentary together. If the answer to any question below is “yes” or “unsure”, the line is rejected. A good line that fails is simply not featured; we do not soften it, trim it or explain it away.

Never in any entry

• Slurs of any kind.
• Humour drawn from religion, caste, region, accent, ethnicity, skin colour, gender, sexuality, disability, body, age or class.
• Jokes that need a stereotype to work.
• Sexual content, innuendo or double meanings.
• Profanity of any strength, including mild or bleeped words.
• Harassment, stalking, eve-teasing or consent violations played for laughs or as romance.
• Celebration of alcohol, drugs, tobacco or gambling.
• Glorified violence or revenge.
• Self-harm.
• Political or communal lines.

Also never in an inspirational entry

• Revenge presented as the answer.
• Dangerous stunts or risk-taking presented as admirable.
• Anything framed as medical, financial or legal advice.

How the check works

• A private word-list screen in English, Devanagari and Hinglish runs first.
• The author completes the rubric for the line, the scene and the commentary.
• A second reviewer, never the author, checks every comedy entry and every Bollywood entry.
• The build refuses any entry whose safety or rights record is incomplete.

About real people

Our commentary never mocks or sexualises a real person and never puts words in anyone’s mouth. Actors appear only as a plain-text credit inside an entry: never in headlines, listings, share text or page addresses, and never next to advertising or shop links.

Formats we never use

• Film stills, frame grabs, GIFs, posters, key art, audio, clips and trailer embeds.
• Photographs, illustrations or caricatures of actors, AI-generated faces or voices, and sound-alike text-to-speech.
• Downloadable quote cards, wallpapers and merchandise.
• Pages built around one actor, one film or a "best lines" list, and dialogue quizzes.
• Lines from unreleased films, leaked scripts or pre-release trailers, and from any film released less than 90 days earlier.
• Comments, accounts, push notifications, email lists and "suggest a line" forms.

What the rubric cannot promise

A clean line can still sit in a scene that reads badly today. Looking at the whole scene and using a second reviewer reduces that risk; it cannot remove it. If you think we got one wrong, tell us.