Hotstar pulls down Koffee With Karan episode with Hardik Pandya, KL Rahul
Budget 2019 : Days after the controversial comments on women by cricket all-rounder Hardik Pandya on the chat show 'Koffee with Karan' caused a furore, Star India- owned streaming platform Hotstar has removed the episode.
"Certain remarks/comments made by the guests on the episode 12 of the show may have hurt the sentiment of our users/viewers. As a responsible platform, we have removed the episode from our platform with immediate effect," Hotstar said Friday in a tweet in response to a query regarding the show being taken off the platform.
Pandya's comments were slammed as misogynistic and sexist, drew a lot of flak from all corners, prompting the committee of administrators to issue a show-cause notice to the players on Wednesday.
The 25-year old cricketer, who appeared on the show alongside teammate KL Rahul, boasted about hooking up with multiple women and also how open he had been about it with his parents and family.
For most of the show, Pandya took it upon himself to say the most outrageous things, mostly on women.
When the host of the show asked him why didn't he ask the women their names in a club, Pandya responded by saying, "I like to watch and observe how they (women) move."
From that to the talk on his sex life, Pandya's brashness did not taper down.
"When I lost my virginity, I came home and said, "Main karke aaya hai aaj (I did it today)," was his response to a question on how "cool" he is with his family members.
"At a party, my parents asked me acha tera wala (women) kaun sa hai (which are your women)? I said, 'yeh, yeh, yeh (pointing out women) and they were like waah we are proud of you beta," he went on to add to stress on the "cool quotient" of his family.
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