Vir Das row: Kiku Sharda, Kunal Kamra to Tanmay Bhat, comedians who landed in trouble for stand-up

With the rising calls for motion towards Vir Das for his new comedy monologue, the comic joins the ever-expanding checklist of artistes who have controversies, threats and authorized troubles for their content material about prevalent problems with India. Das, who lately carried out on the John F Kennedy Centre in Washington DC, stirred a row along with his six-minute satire video "I come from two Indias" in which he talked concerning the twin darkish sides of the nation. The comic, who is at present in the US, touched upon topical points just like the battle towards COVID-19, incidents of rapes, farmers protests, crackdown towards comedians and petrol costs, inviting the ire of a bit of social media in addition to politicians.While there have been distinguished voices in help of the comic, together with TMC member Mahua Moitra in addition to Congress leaders Kapil Sibal and Shashi Tharoor, police complaints have been filed towards him in Mumbai and Delhi.But 42-year-old Das just isn't the one comic to have offended a bit of individuals in Indian society as there have been a number of others together with Munawar Faruqui, Kunal Kamra, Tanmay Bhat, Kiku Sharda, who have discovered themselves in comparable conditions.Faruqui was arrested on January 1 this 12 months for passing allegedly indecent remarks about Hindu deities throughout a comedy present in Indore on New Year's Day. Faruqui was lodged in Indore Central Jail following a grievance by a BJP MLA's son for making the alleged remarks about Hindu deities and Union Home Minister Amit Shah and it was solely after a month that he was launched from jail.Stand-up comic and satirist Kamra confronted authorized trouble as pleas searching for contempt of court docket motion have been filed towards him for tweets towards the court docket and the judges. Attorney General Okay Okay Venugopal had final November consented to the initiation of felony contempt proceedings towards Kamra for a series of tweets following the apex court docket giving interim bail to Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami.In 2019, stand-up comedian artiste Agrima Joshua acquired rape threats and was abused online after an outdated video of her efficiency in 2019 surfaced in which she made a joke concerning the statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in the Arabian sea. The comic had to later apologise for her feedback.Going again additional, comic Kiku Sharda of "Comedy Nights with Kapil" fame had to spend a number of days in judicial custody in 2016 for mimicking Dera Chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim. Sharda, 46, was booked below part 295 A of the Indian Penal Code (outraging non secular emotions of any class by insulting its faith or non secular perception).The identical 12 months, comic Tanmay Bhat, one of many co-founders of the now inactive comedy firm All India Bakchod, landed in trouble when he uploaded a Snapchat video mimicking cricketing icon Sachin Tendulkar and legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar. It resulted in an FIR being registered towards him by the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS).AIB, which was recognized for its comedy sketches broadcast by means of online platforms, had in 2015 landed in trouble over a "roast" programme that includes some distinguished Bollywood celebrities.In 2017, the comedy collective had landed in more trouble when a defamation case was registered towards the comedy group for allegedly posting an "obscene" image of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Twitter.AIB had tweeted an image of a PM Modi look-alike peering into his cell phone at a railway station alongside an precise {photograph} of the PM, with props superimposed with the assistance of Snapchat's canine filter, an app.Earlier this 12 months, Das had recalled that a few years again, one in every of his stand-up exhibits was interrupted by cops over a joke about former president APJ Abdul Kalam. The comic had mentioned 45 policemen got here to his exhibits after somebody known as them and later enquired concerning the joke on Kalam. After he instructed them the joke, Das mentioned the cops left with none incident."I’ve gotten into trouble because of jokes that I made, but I often find that the people who you are making a joke about, never have a problem," he had mentioned throughout his look on an episode of "A Little Late with Lilly Singh".