Ekta Kapoor stands up against cyberbullying and rape-threats

Few days back Bigg Boss 13 contestant, Vikas Pathak also known as Hindustani Bhau lodged a police complaint against TV czarina and producer Ekta Kapoor. The complaint against her was due to one of the scenes in her web series which had an army officer’s wife make her lover wear her husband’s uniform and later tears it off for a scene. The Youtuber wanted an apology to the army from Ekta Kapoor but things got ugly on social media. 

The ace producer soon got rape-threats and was heavily trolled with filthy language and foul comments. Obviously, Ekta Kapoor was not going to sit down and watch the toxicity unfold, so she stood against them and spoke about it publicly. In a live chat with Shobha De, she cleared the air that her team got the scene removed from the web series as she doesn’t want to hurt anyone’s sentiments but cyberbullying her was not right. She says, “This gentleman who thinks that he’s the ‘patriot of the year’ decided to come out there, abuse my mother and me. And now, he has openly put a rape threat on a social platform. This is now no longer about the army or sexual content because the idea of this is ‘rape a girl, rape her son, rape her 71-year-old mother’ for making sexual content. It means sex is bad but rape is okay!”

She further adds that this can happen to any girl and she wouldn’t keep mum because of her celebrity status, “Now I have decided to take the route of standing up to this cyberbullying”. She said, “If they can decide to take my nudes out, put out my nudes on the net, call me names, then tomorrow, they can do this to any girl. As an individual and as an organisation, we are deeply respectful towards Indian Army. Their contribution to our well-being and security is immense. Yes, we shall readily tender an unconditional apology if such a demand comes from any bonafide army institution. But we won’t bow down to uncivilised cyber bullying and rape threats by random elements.”

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