Aashram, Tandav, Gandii Baat and more web series that stirred a hornet's nest for hurting sentiments and offending people – view pics

By BollywoodLife
Published: October 25 2021, 15:50 PM IST

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Aashram — Aashram

Bobby Deol and Prakash Jha’s Aashram season 2’s sets were vandalised a short while by the Bajrang Dal in Bhopal after the ultra-right-wing nationalist group took objection to the show hurting religious sentiments. This wasn’t the first time though that an Indian web series has come under fire for supposedly offending people who haven’t even seen its footage. Here are other instances when content on Indian OTT platforms stirred a hornet's nest for contradicting people’s fragile sentiments…

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Tandav — Tandav

The JNU theme and certain actors having their face painted as Hindu deities to make a valid statement had people up in arms.

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Gandii Baat — Gandii Baat

Boisterous social-media influence Hindustani Bhai and his supporters couldn’t deal with the fact that people do fantacise about men in army unfirms over something as natural as sex and hence, issued rape and death threats to producer Ekta Kapoor and her mother and co-producer, Shobha Kapoor.

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Grahan — Grahan

This time, surprisingly, the Sikh community also took offence to what they perceived would be an anti-Sikh narrative in the show, which, not surprisingly, turned out to be nothing but false.

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The Family Man 2 — The Family Man 2

The Sri Lankan Tamil community raised objections to Samantha Ruth Prabhu’s portrayal in the Amazon Prime web series, believing it shows them in the wrong light although it was the true light.