Now its time for Bakchods to get roasted...........
All India Bakchod gets roasted for apology to Catholic church
The comedy collective gets egg on its face for caving in to community pressures.
Comedy group All India Bakchod has made an unconditional apology to the Catholic church for jokes it made during its December 20 "roast" of Arjun Kapoor and Ranveer Singh.
In a
note uploaded on Facebook, the group describes its meeting with Bishop Agnelo Gracias, the Auxiliary Bishop of Bombay, where the members accepted they had offended the religious sentiments of the community and that while they were free to make these jokes, the Christian community in turn had the right to be offended by their comments.
All India Bakchod, a four-member comedy collective, had on December 20 conducted an event involving Bollywood stars Arjun Kapoor and Ranveer Singh, with the help of director Karan Johar, Raghu Ram, Rajeev Masand, Aditi Mittal and Abish Mathew. On January 28, the group uploaded a heavily edited version of the event, which was viewed eight million times before they had to pull it down on February 4 following protests from a range of conservative groups and complaints to the police.
The note is excessively polite and pointedly calls the archdiocese "kind" at every opportunity. The group also does not seem to have been able to resist taking a shot at others who have been calling for their immediate arrest for offending the sentiments of religions, cultures and India itself.
The subtext of the note did not save them from an all-round roasting on Twitter, where people have been criticising them for failing to stand up to the pressures of various communities.
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