Maharashtra culture minister goes soft on AIB roast

February 03, 2015 01:54

After pledging an inquiry to determine if a roast of actors Ranveer Singh and Arjun Kapoor, employed obscene language and content, the Maharashtra government has said it will not exercise "moral policing."

Maharashtra minister for cultural affairs Vinod Tawde first said: "Such vulgarity is a crime and based on facts which will emerge, the government will file a case against them."

But later, he tweeted: On #AIBRoast, will only enquire if the AIB had taken appropriate certificate. No moral policing if they r allowed by law, I can't stop them.

The roast, the first of its kind in India, featured a panel of eight and 'Roastmaster' Karan Johar putting the 'Gunday' actors through an expletive-laced hour-and-a-half of jokes about their on-screen and off-screen lives.

The event was filmed in a Mumbai stadium with an audience of 4,000. An edited version of the show was on YouTube last week and has been watched more than eight million times so far.

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