The
controversy surrounding Pehredaar Piya Ki, the daily soap on Sony which
revolves around a 9-year-old boy who marries a grown-up woman double his age,
continues to deepen.
Tejaswi Prakash And Afaan Khan In Pehredaar Piya Ki
We had told you that Information & Broadcasting
minister Smriti Irani herself had decided to take action against the Sony show.
The I & B Minister has written to the BCCC
(Broadcasting Content Complaints Council- the self-regulatory mechanism for GEC
content) to take up the matter. Sources close to the government say that a
letter to this effect has been been dispatched, asking for immediate action on
priority basis.
We called up the show’s leading lady Tejaswi Prakash
and the dad of Afaan Khan, the show’s child star. And the conversations
were rather interesting.
Tejaswi Prakash And Afaan Khan In Pehredaar Piya Ki
Tejaswi picked up our call and told us that she cannot
talk about it. It was clear from her shaky voice that she wanted to speak up,
so we prodded a bit more, to which she replied, “I cannot say anything. Sony
will sue me.” That was the end of the conversation.
A few minutes
later, we called up Afaan Khan’s father who had announced in an
interview to SpotboyE.com that he did not care about the criticism faced by the
show.
Tejaswi Prakash And Afaan Khan In Pehredaar Piya Ki
Mr Khan’s stance seems to have gone into a shell now, and
after repeated calls he picked up to only say, "Sorry, you have dialled a
wrong number".
The recent episodes of the show, which highlighted the
suhaag raat and showed how the kid enjoys filling his wife’s forehead with
sindoor, have shocked the nation no end. The cringe-worthy scenes caused a
public outcry and a petition was filed against Pehredaar Kiya Ki demanding a
ban on the show.
Pity that Sony has clamped down on Afaan and Tejaswi. Are
Tejaswi and Afaan now doing the show forcibly?
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