Ranveer Allahbadia controversy has sparked many reactions on social media and news channels. As you might be aware, Ranveer while appearing on India’s Got Latent, had asked a contestant, “Would you rather watch your parents have s*x every day for the rest of your life or join in once and stop it forever.” Now, comedian and actor Vir Das has reacted on it. As you might be aware, in 2021, Vir was at the receiving end when his video on Two Indias went viral.
While Vir has no qualms on the audience debating on the ‘comedy’, he has criticised Indian newsrooms.
He wrote on Instagram, “The audience is always welcome to debate what good comedy is. A good artist will take their feedback head down, mouth shut, and maybe evolve. Either the way the consequences of your comedy on your career and audience are pretty instant. That's a natural process.”
He added, “But we are also watching a bunch of irrelevant mainstream media anchors bordering extinction coming together to take down new media that gets millions more views, longer interviews, and far more impact than their bloated studios and fat salary at 1% of the cost. Whether you like the new media or not is irrelevant.”
The Emmy Award-winning comedian urged people to also judge journalists the way they judge comedians. He wrote, “That's ALSO what's happening here. And while we debate what good comedy is, please debate what good journalism is, and the news that they SHOULD be doing, the questions they SHOULD be asking, and who they should be asking them to.”
His post comes a day after FIRs were filed against Ranveer Allahbadia, Samay Raina and other guests and hosts of the show. Many netizens are of the view that filing police complaints is taking it too far.
