Several comedians, including Varun Grover, Vir Das, and Rohan Joshi, have criticized the arrest of comedian Munawar Faruqui, a day after he was detained for alleged indecent remarks made against Hindu deities and Union Interior Minister Amit Shah, during a show in Indore. , Madhya Pradesh.
Faruqui, a comedian from Gujarat, was arrested along with four others on Saturday after the son of a BJP MLA complained against him.
Subsequently, a local court rejected their bail statements and sent them into judicial custody.
Grover took to Instagram and alleged that Faruqui was “beaten.”
The Sacred Games writer shared a video in which the comedian tries to reason with Eklavya Singh Gaur, son of local BJP MLA Malini Laxman Singh Gaur, who filed the complaint.
“A fellow Indian, a comedy partner, is in jail and was beaten by a mob for the words he spoke. Here you are trying to make your case logically and calmly, but our systems now just want to brutally silence every voice.
“They don’t want to listen, they don’t even want to argue, they just want to erase every bit of individual thought, every iota of reason. And we, the people of the greatest civilization on earth, agree with that, ”Grover wrote.
Das took to Twitter and wrote that it is useless to stop humor and try to “control” it.
“You can’t stop the jokes and the laughter. Not because comedians are playing it, but because people need to laugh. The more you try, the more they will laugh at you, now and for history.
You can’t stop the jokes and laughter. Not because comedians are playing it, but because people need to laugh. The more you try, the more they will laugh at you, now and for history.
Anyone who has ever tried to control humor now has a joke category dedicated to them.
– Vir Das (@thevirdas) January 3, 2021
“Anyone who has ever tried to control humor now has a joke category dedicated to them,” Das tweeted.
He also posted a screenshot of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s tweet from 2017, when he spoke about the importance of humor.
“I think we need more satire and humor. Humor brings happiness to our lives. Humor is the best healer ”, the prime minister had said in the tweet.
Das captioned the image: “I’m going to leave this here.”
I’m going to leave this here. pic.twitter.com/C8eqqDzPya
– Vir Das (@thevirdas) January 3, 2021
According to Gaur, he and his associates had gone to watch the program and when they heard the “indecent” comments, they forced the organizers to stop the program.
According to the complaint, indecent remarks were made against Hindu gods and goddesses and the Union Interior Minister during the show, said Kamlesh Sharma, in charge of the Tukoganj police station.
Comedian Rohan Joshi shared the video of Faruqui in which he tries to reason with the offended with his jokes.
“It turns out that now you can just assault people while they are doing their job and the police will take ‘them’ to the police station,” Joshi captioned in the video.
Comedian Kaneez Surka and Abish Mathew also shared the clip of Faruqui on Instagram.
“Look at this, that’s it and then share it,” wrote Surka.
While Mathew added: “Seven minutes of @ munawar.faruqui trying to reason but still …”
“High-risk people should get vaccinated first. So comedians must be on the list, comedian Neeti Palta wrote, alluding to the incident in a Facebook post when India approved the Oxford and Bharat Biotech COVID-19 vaccines for emergency restricted use on Sunday.
On Saturday, Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Aman Singh Bhuria refused to grant bail to Faruqui and four others and placed them in judicial custody until 13 January.
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