Bollywood producer Ekta Kapoor created quite a controversy when a television reality show contestant ‘Vikas Pathak’ aka Hindustani Bhau condemned her show that brings dishonour to the country. He registered a FIR against Ekta and Shobha Kapoor on June 1 for humiliating the Indian Army and endeavoring to stigmatize fighters.
From then consecutively two different FIRs have additionally been documented against Kapoor. One was filed by armed force authorities in Gurugram while the other was registered by two Indore inhabitants in Madhya Pradesh.
Ekta began enduring the plight and firing against trolls for sending her rape threats over a controversial scene in her web series ‘Triple-X-2. It’s now reported recently, that Ekta has deleted the scene from the show and went on to comprehend that she definitely respects the Indian Army, nevertheless censures cyber bullying.
Shedding light on how the topic switched from Indian Army to cyber-bullying and rape, Ekta Kapoor said, “Of course when we got to know that there’s also an FIR that has been lodged, we removed the content immediately. The content aside, I don’t mind my team coming up with an apology and to put out an apology for the army officer’s wives because we have no problem with them. But something else started simultaneously, which irritated me the most and that’s cyber-bullying.”
In the deleted scene, the story portrays an army officer’s wife allegedly disparages his uniform by making her boyfriend wear it in his absence, but later strips the uniform recklessly and romances with her lover on bed. This scene drew flak on social media, where many disapproved, as it was an insult to the Indian Army and abused Kapoor of being an “anti-national”.
