Making comedy comes with a great risk of hurting people’s sentiments or offending someone whether you intended to or not. Most stand-up comedians have faced the wrath of trolls, even got arrested for telling a joke on stage. Indian comic Vir Das is also no stranger to controversies and trolls over his sketches. 

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His latest one that has caused an uproar is a monologue that he released titled Two Indias. The six-minute video was a part of his show in Washington DC with an Indian audience jam-packed inside the John F Kennedy Centre. 

He posted the video on his social media account and captioned it, “TWO INDIAS - Vir Das Something I wrote on the morning of the show. At the end, after many laughs, we filmed it....and made some noise for a country we love, and are proud of. 

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Watch the video here. 

The monologue is a satire on the ironic polarity of India and its people. One particular line from the video which went viral as soon as it was posted, seems to have not sat well with people, which goes, “I come from an India where we worship women during the day and gang-rape them during the night”. For this, he has been trolled by some people on the internet.

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Now, actress Kangana Ranaut has reacted to the video and called him a ‘criminal’. She posted stories on her Instagram account saying action should be taken against him. 

She wrote, “When you generalise all Indian men as gang-rapists it gives rise and encouragement to racism and bullying against Indians all over the world...after Bengal Famine Churchill famously said, ‘These Indians breed like rabbits they are bound to die like this...’ he blamed Indians’ *** drive/fertility for the death of millions because of hunger... Such creative work targeting an entire race is soft terrorism... strict actions must be taken against such criminals @virdas.”

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Vir Das issued a clarification about the video on Tuesday in a Twitter post asking people to “not be fooled by edited snippets.”  

© Instagram/Vir Das

He wrote, “The video is a satire about the duality of two very separate Indias that do different things. Like any nation has light and dark, good and evil within it. None of this is a secret. The video appeals for us to never forget that we are great. To never stop focusing on what makes us great.”

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He posted it after a lot of people expressed outrage on social media over the contents in the monologue and some even filed an FIR against him with the Mumbai Police. However, some also defended him and said he only spoke the truth and said nothing wrong.

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