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Tawde orders probe into AIB You Tube show for derogatory remarks
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By A Special Correspondent
Bollywood celebs Karan Johar, Arjun Kapoor and Ranveer Singh face the heat after AIB video becomes a hit on Youtube
By Zuber Ansari
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he Saki Naka police has received a complaint against well known celebs of Bollywood after a video clip of 'All India Backc**d [AIB] Knockout' show went viral on Youtube wherein the participants of the show had allegedly used profanity in front of a live audience at a show held at the NSCI, Worli on December 20, 2014 but was aired only last week on Youtube. The police have ordered an
inquiry into a complaint filed by Akhilesh Tiwari which was against director Karan Johar, actors Arjun Kapoor and Ranveer Singh. The complaint in this case alleged that the trio had used language which goes against the ethos of the Indian culture terming it 'filthy and abusive'. The 'AIB Knockout Roast' event was held in Worli on December 20 last year where various top Bollywood actors including Deepika Padukone, Soni Razdan mother of Alia Bhatt and her sister Sha-
heeen Bhatt and Sunjay Kapoor were also present. The AIB is a popular channel on Youtube with the founders of the channel known to organise spoofs on many celebrities and politicians in India. Till yesterday, the AIB channel in Youtube had over a lakh views and AIB itself has in excess of eight lakh 55 followers. The complainant Akhilesh who is the president of Brahman Ekta Seva Sanstha in Continued on pg 12 «
inister for Cultural Affairs Vinod Tawde yesterday ordered a probe against the producers of All India Bakchod (AIB) Knockout show that was held on December 20, and was uploaded on You Tube last week for alleged offensive content. The show which was filmed at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel auditorium near Worli was graced by Bollywood actors Karan Johar, Arjun Kapoor and Ranveer Singh. Speaking to newspersons he stated that the police probe will find out whether the producers had the performance licence on the basis of the censor board certificate. He said that if there is no certificate for the show, then an FIR will be lodged against the producers. The Minister for Cultural Affairs stated that to air such a derogatory show is a crime.
Tawde added that the authorities at the auditorium should also have checked on the certificate from the producers. The AIB Roast is the first of its kind in the country featured a panel of eight and 'Roastmaster' Karan Johar putting the Gunday actors – Ranveer Singh and Arjun Kapoor through an expletivelaced hour-and-a-half of jokes about their on-screen and offscreen lives. The AIB is a collective of comics Tanmay Bhat, Rohan Joshi, Gursimran Khamba and Ashish Shakya who show their sketches on a YouTube channel.
BIG BROTHER TO KEEP CLOSE WATCH ON CRIMINALS By Vishnudas Sheshrao and The primary purpose of the What this entails, is the sons to smile, as this system Zuber Ansari Real Time Picture Intelli- continuous 24x7 monitoring will feature additional soft-
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ome Ministry working in tandem with the Mumbai Police and Disaster Management Cell of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has embarked on an ambitious 'Real Time Picture Intelligence' project on the lines of the Emergency Management of New York.
gence project is to help the decision making authorities to tackle natural and man made disasters by rapid decision making, in a rather sophisticated way by sitting comfortably in the Central Command Center or closest Divisional Command Center.
of a whole lot of hotspots in the city via CCTV involving a whole lot of human resources drawn from all the three aforementioned bodies, the Home Minstry, the Mumbai Police and the BMC. Mumbai Police will in the near future have more rea-
ware systems including face recognition software and intelligence gathering and processing software which will relentlessly trace and track 'habitual criminals'. It would thus be helpful for investigation agencies to zero down on the criminal activities in the city. Continued on pg 9 «