The latest episode of the comedy show ‘India’s Got Latent’ has sparked a huge controversy regarding the jokes that Ranveer Allahabadia made as a guest.
People are furious and police cases have been made and audiences are demanding for censorship in comedy as well. The YouTube show is hosted by Samay Raina and has gained huge popularity in a very short period of time.
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But after this outrage, the future of the show is at stake and there are chances that other comedy shows on OTT platforms will have to go through censorship.
One of the things that people like about OTT is its freedom of expression and audiences are realising that this freedom is being exploited for engagement. People are not ready to consume senseless, forced and abusive jokes anymore and very clearly there is a line that has been crossed.
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Prime Video and Netflix have come up with very popular comedy shows like ‘Tathastu’, ‘Bas Kar Biswa’ or ‘Vir Das: Landing’ and the genre generates good views as well. But the outrage of offensive jokes might cause even the OTT shows to be cut up and edited according to censor rules soon.
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