Comedian-Actor Vir Das comes under fire over US show

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Comedian Vir Das on Tuesday issued a statement clarifying that his comments in his monologue ‘I come from two Indias’ weren’t intended to insult the country. Das, who is currently in the United States, on Monday uploaded a video on YouTube, titled ‘I come from two Indias’, that was part of his recent performance at the John F Kennedy Centre in Washington, DC.

In the six-minute video, Das talks about the duality of the country and mentions some of the most topical issues India is facing, from its battle against COVID-19, incidents of rapes, crackdown against comedians to the farmers’ protests. A section on Twitter posted clips and pictures from his monologue, specifically the part where the comedian said, ‘I come from an India where we worship women during the day and gang-rape them during the night’.

The 42-year-old took to Twitter and posted a note, stating that his intention was to serve as a reminder that the country, despite its issues, was ‘great’. ‘The video is a satire about the duality of two very separate India’s 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.