{"id":277968,"date":"2025-04-09T14:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T14:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/09\/apoorva-mukhija-apologises-for-her-comments-on-indias-got-latent-recalls-the-dehumanising-experience-samay-raina-asked-him-to-behave-multiple-times\/"},"modified":"2025-04-09T14:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T14:21:08","slug":"apoorva-mukhija-apologises-for-her-comments-on-indias-got-latent-recalls-the-dehumanising-experience-samay-raina-asked-him-to-behave-multiple-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/09\/apoorva-mukhija-apologises-for-her-comments-on-indias-got-latent-recalls-the-dehumanising-experience-samay-raina-asked-him-to-behave-multiple-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Apoorva Mukhija apologises for her comments on India\u2019s Got Latent, recalls the \u2018dehumanising\u2019 experience: \u2018Samay Raina asked him to behave multiple times\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/data.indianexpress.com\/election2019\/track_1x1.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Apoorva Mukhija apologises for her comments on India\u2019s Got Latent, recalls the \u2018dehumanising\u2019 experience: \u2018Samay Raina asked him to behave multiple times\u2019\" title=\"Apoorva Mukhija apologises for her comments on India\u2019s Got Latent, recalls the \u2018dehumanising\u2019 experience: \u2018Samay Raina asked him to behave multiple times\u2019\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Apoorva Mukhija aka The Rebel Kid, who was <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/entertainment\/bollywood\/who-is-apoorva-mukhija-aka-rebel-kid-samay-raina-indias-got-latent-9829887\/\" class=\"\">one of the judges on the panel during that infamous episode of Samay Raina\u2019s show India\u2019s Got Latent,<\/a> <\/strong>took to YouTube on Wednesday evening and recalled the events that happened on that particular episode. She also shared the aftermath of the incident where trolls on the internet issued rape threats, threatened her with acid attack and made her life miserable. In the video,<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/vir-das-samay-raina-comedins-india-got-latent-ranveer-allahbadia-9833758\/\" class=\"\"> Apurva also apologised for her comments on the show<\/a><\/strong> and said that her jokes were not funny. Apoorva was part of the panel on the show which landed in controversy over Ranveer Allahabadia\u2019s \u2018sex with parents\u2019 comment. After a nationwide uproar, the show was taken off YouTube, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/cities\/mumbai\/ranveer-allahbadia-row-influencer-apoorva-mukhija-appears-before-mumbai-police-faces-inquiry-9831715\/\" class=\"\">multiple FIRs filed against them<\/a><\/strong> and an investigation was started.<\/p>\n<p>She started her video by saying that people advised her to not speak about the issue, and move on with her life as if nothing had happened. Apurva recalled that she first met Samay at an event in August 2024 where he asked her if she wanted to be on his show. She was elated and eventually, they shot for this particular episode in November.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cIt was a 6-7 hour long shoot and there was a 30 minute break in the middle. So in the first half, I didn\u2019t say anything. I just made one joke about being a computer science engineer who doesn\u2019t speak to civil engineering students. That\u2019s it. I was sitting there and freaking out that I can\u2019t do this. I texted my manager that I don\u2019t want to be here and she told me that don\u2019t overthink, be yourself,\u201d she recalled. Apurva said that she had a \u201cfull blown panic attack\u201d in the green room during the break because she felt like she wasn\u2019t being funny on the show and Samay consoled her.<\/p>\n<div class=\"osv-ad-class\" style=\"background-color: #f2f2f2;height: 375px;margin-bottom: 15px;\">\n<p>Story continues below this ad<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cSamay sat down with me and told me that \u2018Apurva, I also go through this kind of pressure that I will have to be funny but it\u2019s okay, no one is expecting you to be funny, you are not a stand-up comic, you are just an influencer, influencers are not supposed to be funny,\u201d she recalled. Apurva said that it was during the second half of the show when the controversial contestant came on the stage and started speaking rudely to one of her friends who was sitting in the audience. \u201cThis guy comes on stage and he was saying some disrespectful stuff and trying to be funny. Samay asked him to behave multiple times but he was at it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"7buyI4xQv-k\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Till I say it is\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7buyI4xQv-k?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen this boy goes to on to say things about my vagina in front of everybody. And usually, you expect people to say things like that online because they can be anonymous there and they know there are no real consequences, but you don\u2019t expect people to say something like that in front of a live audience. So when I said that statement, it genuinely did not come from a place of being funny or creating a moment or being savage, it genuinely came from anger and retaliation. My intention wasn\u2019t to hurt anyone, except for that guy\u2019s ego,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Apurva then apologised for her words on the show and said that she never meant to hurt anyone. \u201cIrrespective of my intention, I have hurt a lot of people and that is honestly the last thing I want to do. I genuinely create content to entertain people and to make them laugh. I never wanted to hurt anybody and I am very very sorry. I should have been more mindful of my words but I have learnt my lesson and I promise I will do better going forward. I just hope you guys can forgive me and I am very sorry if I hurt your sentiments,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Apurva said that after this, she made a couple of more jokes but those too, were in bad taste. \u201cAfter this, I made a couple of more jokes and they also are in very bad taste. When I heard those jokes, I didn\u2019t find them funny. I am literally in your team. I don\u2019t know why I was saying these random things just to seem cool but I am very sorry. They were all in bad taste and I should not have said such stupid things on a show,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"adboxtop adsizes\">\n<p>Story continues below this ad<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Apurva said that she feared that people wouldn\u2019t find her funny but did not imagine that people would find this problematic as this was the tone of India\u2019s Got Latent. After the episode dropped in February, Apurva learnt that there were multiple FIR\u2019s against her and there was an army on Twitter that was posting against her. \u201cIt is impossible for so many humans to tweet the same thing unless and until somebody is asking them to tweet the same thing,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/cities\/mumbai\/who-is-samay-raina-india-got-latent-the-show-ranveer-allahbadia-row-9829945\/\" class=\"\">ALSO READ | Who is Samay Raina? And what is \u2018India\u2019s Got Latent\u2019, the show in the Ranveer Allahbadia row, all about?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>She shared that after this, she was told by her manager that she cannot go back to her house as people might attack her and it wasn\u2019t safe for her to be there as many people know where she lives. \u201cI started reading my DMs and they were all graphic of how people want to rape me, throw acid and stuff like that,\u201d she said. Apurva said that on the day when she went to record her statement with the police, she \u201ccried so much\u201d and it was a \u201cdehumanising\u201d experience because of the way paparazzi behaved with her.<\/p>\n<p>She shared that amid all of this, her parents supported her but trolls found her mother\u2019s social media and started writing nasty stuff in the comments section. As a result, her blood pressure shot up. \u201cI deserve this because I did this. My parents did not deserve this,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"adboxtop adsizes\">\n<p>Story continues below this ad<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Apurva ended her video by saying that she doesn\u2019t want to profit of off her misery and will donate the earnings from this video to an \u201cNGO that helps acid attack victims, rape victims and victims of domestic violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '444470064056909');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/entertainment\/bollywood\/apoorva-mukhija-apologises-for-her-comments-on-indias-got-latent-recalls-the-dehumanising-experience-9934742\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apoorva Mukhija aka The Rebel Kid, who was one of the judges on the panel during that infamous episode of Samay Raina\u2019s show India\u2019s Got Latent, took to YouTube on Wednesday evening and recalled the events that happened on that particular episode. 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