mid-day editorial: Comical controversy has gone too far
Updated On: 31 May, 2016 07:40 AM IST | | MiD DAY Correspondent
Comedian Tanmay Bhat has stirred a hornet’s nest with a video in which he takes digs at the Nightingale of India, Lata Mangeshkar, and cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar
Comedian Tanmay Bhat has stirred a hornet’s nest with a video in which he takes digs at the Nightingale of India, Lata Mangeshkar, and cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar. Predictably, political parties have jumped into the controversy, demanding that action be taken against the stand-up comic for his remarks on the two Indian icons.
In the Snapchat video titled ‘Sachin v/s Lata Civil War’, the ‘face-swapped’ idols appear to be arguing over whether Virat Kohli is better than the Master Blaster. Bhat then jokes that Mangeshkar is 5,000 years old and looks like someone has kept her under water for eight days. He also says Jon Snow (a character from Game of Thrones) died, and so should she.
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