“The Huge Bang Principle” was not precisely “Seinfeld” when it got here to producing controversy with its viewers. The nerd-friendly present by no means killed off a personality who was making ready marriage ceremony invitations, and its sequence finale did not enrage viewers with a Sartre-esque ultimate scene of the quartet yammering on about nothing in a jail cell. “The Huge Bang Principle” was a usually good present with some mildly unlikable characters (particularly Simon Helberg’s Howard Wolfowitz), and nobody ever wished it had gone just a bit more durable.
Mithun Vijay Kumar doesn’t agree with this evaluation. The Indian activist was scandalized whereas watching an outdated episode of the sequence final 12 months on Netflix and filed swimsuit in response.
What starched Kumar’s shorts? He occurred to be watching the second season premiere (titled “The Dangerous Fish Paradigm”) which includes a scene the place Sheldon (Jim Parsons) and Raj (Kunal Nayyar) are hanging out within the residence watching an Indian film that includes Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai. When Raj professes his profound love for Rai (who appeared within the Bollywood remake of “Again to the Future”), Sheldon thoughtlessly responds, “Truly, I would say she’s a poor man’s Madhuri Dixit.” Raj, seeing purple, fires again, “Aishwarya Rai is a goddess. By comparability, Madhuri Dixit is a leprous prostitute.” And the reside American studio viewers laughed at two geeks combating over two girls they’d by no means heard of.
Kumar, nonetheless, is an admirer of Dixit and was livid sufficient over this joke to have his lawyer ship Netflix a authorized discover asking that they take away the episode from their Indian streaming platform. How did that work out for him?
Legislating the foul tongue of Kunal Nayyar
Essentially the most salient portion of Kumal’s discover reads, “As a fan of Madhuri Dixit since childhood, I used to be deeply disturbed by the dialogue. I discovered it extremely derogatory and offensive in the direction of Indian tradition and ladies.” To be honest, it is a tough joke on the floor, however, once more, it comes on the expense of two dweebs getting labored up over the comparative fantastic thing about two Indian performers.
Kumal nonetheless pressed ahead together with his authorized motion, and he managed to get different Indian actors like Jaya Bachchan riled up as effectively. “Is that this man [Kunal Nayyar] insane?” requested Bachchan. “Badi gandi zubaan hai [Translation: It is a very foul tongue]. He must be despatched to psychological asylum. [sic] His household ought to be requested what they consider his remark.”
Blistering stuff! So what did Netflix do? Being that they’ve solely paid to stream the Warner Bros.-produced present that initially aired on CBS (as produce other streamers obtainable in India, like Prime Video), Netflix acknowledged receipt and handed that authorized discover alongside to WB. As of April 2023, WB has not, to the perfect of my googleable data, responded. As for that foul tongue, you need to see the place he ended up on /Movie’s rating of “The Huge Bang Principle” characters by likability!