AIB KNOCK-OUT: YOU ARE OFFENDED?? SERIOUSLY???

I was going through the news columns today and what caught my attention was the most talked about show recently “The AIB Knock-out- Roast of Ranveer Singh & Arjun Kapoor” which is labelled as the filthiest, coolest and rudest show.

The point is not everybody found the AIB Video funny. There has been outrage and many found it offensive. A TV channel lashed out at the AIB group using not-so-great adjectives which forced the govt. to probe an enquiry.

Some people take offences like it’s a limited time offer. Well nobody has the right to not to be offended.

The Video clearly said: - “Following the video is filthy, rude and offensive”.

If you are offended it’s your problem and frankly lots of things offends lots of people. You can walk into a book store and come across a number of books you will find unattractive in what they say. But I guess it doesn't occur to you to burn the book store down. If you don’t like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don’t like it, nobody is asking you to finish it. But to read a 500 page novel and then say it has deeply offended you: well, you have done a lot of work to be offended.

The offended include Akhilesh Tiwari (President of Brahman Ekta Seva Sanstha), Anil Kapoor, Vinod Tawde (Cultural Affairs Minister) & Krishna Hegde (Congress MLA).

@ Akhilesh Tiwari: - His three you tube videos of mata ki chowkis organized by him last year had 21, 6 & 8 views respectively. And then there is AIB Knockout, with a million views in about 12 hours. It’s got to hurt.

@ Anil Kapoor: - Anything designed to be inoffensive isn’t worth your time- Life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death. Hence, be a sport.

Now coming back to the AIB Video, An hour of abuse among themselves generated 40 L INR for charity.

I feel, there should be a law which prevents people from wasting police’s time with mundane matters. Why is it so important to preserve this so- called clean image of Indian culture and women? Who decides what is moral and what is decent? And what sort of lives do these people who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear readers, we shouldn’t forget that we are in the native land of hypocrites. Meanwhile politicians can get away giving hate speeches. Anyways, AIB have a long way to go before they can even hope to give competition to Indian politicians.

If you are clearly looking for statements made in public that damage the clean image of India, there’s much more. Here are some samples.

TMC’s Tapas Pal: - "Boys will go and rape women on my command".

Mulayam Singh Yadav: - "Boys will be boys"!!

Parveen Tagodia of VHP: - "Muslims should be evicted forcibly and their properties should be taken over".

Ajit Pawar, Deputy CM: - His response to a draught hit farmer who was on a 55 day hunger strike was “ He has been fasting for 55 days now, if there is no water in the dam, should we urinate into it? If there is no water to drink, even urination is not possible”

I have an advice for those who found the video offensive. Guys, look into the mirror!! Don’t just go around pretending to be the upholders of your own prescribed moral values. Don’t like something, don’t watch it!! As simple as that.

No offence given, none taken

-Jay