"Shoving It Down Your Throat": Suniel Shetty Blames Karan Johar For Hardik Pandya, KL Rahul 'Koffee With Karan' Controversy
KL Rahul and Hardik Pandya had faced sanctions imposed by the BCCI for their comments on 'Koffee With Karan' chat show.
KL Rahul and Hardik Pandya are two of the most important members of the Indian men's cricket team at present, but do you know, there was a time when the duo had faced severe backlash for their comments on Karan Johar's chat show 'Koffee With Karan'. For the unversed, the duo had appeared on the show in 2019, and some of the comments made by them were seen as derogatory and sexist. The duo was then suspended by the BCCI and they were also removed from the Indian squad for the series against Australia.
In the latest entertainment news, Suniel Shetty who is the father-in-law of KL Rahul, said that Hardik Pandya might have gotten carried away with the format of the show, but the anchor (Karan Johar) kept pushing him.
“You know when that interview of him (KL Rahul) and Hardik (Pandya) came… Hardik probably got carried away. But when you have an anchor (Karan Johar) shoving it down your throat, what do you do? So it is the format of the show (Koffee With Karan), you get kids excited and they say stuff and then Bollywood is being banned," Suniel told Ranveer Allahbadia on his podcast The Ranveer Show.
“So I think we all, you as an anchor, me as a guest, we all need to be responsible because if you ask me a question that I feel I can’t answer doesn’t mean (I should feel) that I am inferior to anybody. When that happens, that’s when things go wrong, and it should never go wrong. You should have the guts to say things as they are and as they should be," he added.
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Sunil Shetty agreeing to KJo shoving it down the throat !
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"KL Rahul didn't say anything bad, did he? They weren't exactly 'kids', when they went on the show, but I agree with Suniel's last point that everyone – anchor and the guests – should be responsible about what they say," commented one user.
"KL Rahul was pretty much in the wrong place at the wrong time. Didn’t deserve the backlash. It was Hardik being inappropriate, and Karan egging him on," commented another.
"The whole point of going on KWK (Koffee With Karan) is to give spicy answers and get talked about, otherwise don’t go on the show or don’t answer. You can say ‘no comments’ and not get any backlash. I also never understood why any of these guys need to be on KWK," commented another user.
