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| Ranveer Singh and Arjun Kapoor promoting their movie GUNDAY. |
As they say you need to experience something to have an opinion about it, so I watched the AIB Knockout of Ranveer Singh and Arjun Kapoor. It had Deepika Padukone, Sonakshi Sinha, Alia Bhatt and likes of Anurag Kashyap in attendence.
NO, I didn't like the content at all. I was not offended by it, but seriously, since when you need to use foul words to generate comedy even in insults?
In an attempt to copy the "Roast format of comedy" showed on Comedy Central, AIB just filled their insults and jabs with crude words and gaalis unnecessarily for "comedic"effect.To roast someone do you really need such filthy language and their requisite of giving a disclaimer that people who are mildly and difficultly offended should not watch was a nice bait to gather views.
Apart from 2-3 jokes/insults, rest were crude attempts at insults using gaalis. Personally, I was not offended but rather saddened because millions of young people look upto both Arjun Kapoor and Ranveer Singh as their idols and watching them act like an idiot and speaking all the expletives that is there in Hindi and English will leave a "great" impression on them.
A person has filed a FIR against AIB for the content on the show that was uploaded on AIB's official channel. Though the disclaimer is shown that the shown is filthy and people who are offended should not watch away, it is more so of an enticement for someone visiting to click on the video and watch.
The content is really filthy as they claimed and they have lived upto their claim.
What disturbed me was the comments of viewers who loved and liked the show dissing the comments of people who disliked it. Comments such as "People should be more worried about rape and corruption rather than this." or "Kisne bola dekhne ko, jab likha hai toh kyu nahi padha.".
Some called the attempt as brave since nothing of this sort has been tried in India before. But do we really need to hear C***ya, A****le, B****d, M*****rF***ker etc 2-3 times in a line of joke? And its very nice to see Arjun And Ranveer taking the insults, but will the joke get through to their millions of fans that they should not use the same language and this was just a comedy act. The jokes on Ashish Shakya on his colour, on Tanmay about his weight were really toeing even the crassest of the lines. Yes Deepika Padukone, Sonakshi Sinha and Alia Bhatt
I read a post by Facebook group BhakSala founder on a blog. The comments here also asks you to be open minded and not narrow minded, I dont think people saying this know what open mindedness is.
The so called "Liberal minded" people are applauding the show, I would like them to do the same if Raju Srivastava and Kapil Sharma crack the same jokes in Hindi, Punjabi. Just because AIB used English for cuss words and brought the Town people like Karan Johar, does not make their attempt at "Roast" sophisticated.
I do hope when someone crack similar jokes on their family members or on them, they remember to be open minded. And it would be funny to see their children call them C***ya on daily basis after watching such "comedic" attempts, they still remember being open minded.
When did watching clean comedy became not hip and people who appreciate good humor, who are offended by such shows are asked to return to Comedy Nights with Kapil and Pogo or Cartoon Network on public forums like Facebook and Twitter.
If you are really open minded, instead of watching a poor attempt at copying western brand of humor and presenting it with loads of gaalis (unnecessarily), please go and help at a real charity.
