Mumbai Youth Congress Committee files an FIR against the channel for telecasting ‘obscene acts’
Mumbai Youth Congress Committee files an FIR against the channel for telecasting ‘obscene acts’
The reality show Big Boss, which airs on Colors channel, is in trouble. The Mumbai Youth Congress Committee (MYCC) has filed a FIR against the channel, the producers of the show Endemol, and the contestants Paayal Rohatgi and Sambhavna Seth, among others, at Andheri police station. The MYCC has alleged that the participants indulged in obscene acts and the channel telecast it.
According to the police, when MYCC members sought to file an FIR against the show, they asked the channel for the video tapes of the concerned episodes. On watching the tapes, the police found some scenes objectionable and have filed a case under sections 292 and 294 of the IPC. “We have filed an FIR against the show for showing obscene acts on a family channel,” said the complainant, Sunil Ahire, president of MYCC.
Participants of the show, however, have a different take. Every participant has a different take on the issue. “This is a reality show, and participants in the Big Boss’s house are living as they would in real life. If I am getting into the swimming pool, naturally I am going to wear a swimming costume. If by doing this I have hurt the sentiments of people, then I am extremely sorry about that,” said Paayal Rohatgi, one of the contestants named in the FIR. Incidentally, the ‘offensive’ garment Rohatgi wore to the swimming pool was a bikini.
Rohatgi’s fellow contestant Sambhavna Seth believes that the channel and producers of the show should be held responsible for the controversy. “People who say that the dance between me and Raja Chaudhury was obscene are not in touch with reality,” she says. “The way the channel showed it was not right. We were just acting in a certain way to make Paayal jealous. The really fun part was where Raja and I were discussing it and laughing about the whole thing. The channel edited it out. But I do agree that Paayal was behaving rather weirdly with Rahul in the swimming pool. And yes, her outfit was obscene.”
TV actress and former Big Boss contestant Ketki Dave, on the other hand, believes that the participants are to blame if viewers feel offended by what they see on the show. “Blaming the channel or the production company is not right. Why should the channel pay for the participants’ behaviour?” she asks.
Another former Big Boss contestant, politician Sanjay Nirupam, is more than pleased with this development. “I am very happy that the police have filed an FIR against the show. The participants are crossing their limits,” he said.
The ‘objectionable’ elements of the show that provoked the FIR are, namely, the scenes where Rohatgi is with Rahul Mahajan in the pool, Rohatgi’s outfit, Seth’s dance with Chaudhary, and the abusive language of the participants. The producers, Endemol, were unavailable for comment.
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