AIB team, a group of comedians with known for wittiness, is no stranger to controversies and one of their prominent members Tanmay Bhatt at times takes social media by storm with blunt mockeries of TV figures…but this time the group is likely to pay the price for ridiculing their own prime minister.
A post that was intended to be funny became controversial and landed the comedy group AIB in trouble. The Mumbai Police cyber cell on Friday registered a case against AIB for posting meme about Prime Minister Narendra Modi with a Snapchat dog filter on Twitter.
An AIB group member posted an image of PM Modi’s lookalike at a railway station along with a photo of the Prime Minister with a Snapchat dog filter, captioned #wanderlust. There was instant outrage.
The case surfaced after the group tweeted a meme using PM Narendra Modi’s picture with a Snapchat dog filter on July 12. However, the post was soon deleted after people started trolling them. A Twitter user had brought the tweet into the limelight by tagging the Mumbai Police in his post and wrote, “Strict action should be taken against Tanmay Bhat and AIB for tweeting, posting a cheap joke against PM Narendra Modi.”
The police soon responded and replied by saying, “Thank you for bringing this to our notice.We are forwarding this to the cyber police station.”
As the news spread, AIB co-founder Tanmay Bhat on July 13 took to Twitter and shared a picture of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s old tweet where he said, “We surely need more humor in public life.”
However, this statement had nothing to do with the current situation and was posted by the PM on a different issue.
Take a look at the tweets below:
Publicity theek hai yaar, lage haath thode nationalist sentiments aur hurt kar lo cuz Modi goes hand in hand. Magar joke to dhang ka ho! pic.twitter.com/sLSo4EyMHy
— A La’ Vile De Satara (@AdvancedMaushi) July 13, 2017
Mumbai police in action
Thank you for bringing this to our notice.We are forwarding this to the cyber police station.
— Mumbai Police (@MumbaiPolice) July 12, 2017
— Tanmay Bhat (@thetanmay) July 13, 2017
Congress leaders and BJP trolls both getting mad over a goddamn silly snapchat filter meme smh
— Tanmay Bhat (@thetanmay) July 13, 2017
Fury over post against Modi
Tanmay Bhat & Rohan Joshi are ppl who will put dog filter on PM Modi’s pic at night and wake up shouting no freedom of expression in India.
— Startup of Cards (@BhargavPurohit) July 13, 2017
Congress leaders and BJP trolls both getting mad over a goddamn silly snapchat filter meme smh
— Tanmay Bhat (@thetanmay) July 13, 2017
This is blunt
PS: Will continue making jokes. And deleting if necessary. And making jokes again. And Apologizing if necessary. Don’t care what you think.
— Tanmay Bhat (@thetanmay) July 13, 2017
Recent hilarious social media posts on Modi
Eid Mubarak. pic.twitter.com/vRGkG9UWdA
— Trendulkar (@Trendulkar) June 27, 2017
Close Enough!!
Kiska hai ye Tumko Intezaar Mai Hoon Naa!! pic.twitter.com/ReUSkzudXi— Virender Sehwag (@virender_swag) April 26, 2017
#ModiTrumpMeet pic.twitter.com/BUyK2RUgwH
— Err (@Errendous) June 27, 2017
The tea thing is LOL !
A woman giving demo of how to use a nut cracker pic.twitter.com/3tGJfN4phV
— हरी राम नाई (@Hari_Ram_Nai) March 16, 2016
