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KBC 11 'Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj' Row: After Sony TV, Now Amitabh Bachchan Apologises
After Kaun Banega Crorepati 11 makers, host Amitabh Bachchan and showrunner Siddhartha Basu have now issued an apology for the wrong reference to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.
Sony TV's quiz-based reality show Kaun Banega Crorepati 11 encountered controversy after 'Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj' was referred to as 'Shivaji' in one of the questions. Recently, Sony TV had issued an apology by sharing a video and captioned it, "There was an inaccurate reference to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj during Wednesday's KBC episode, due to inadvertence. We deeply regret the same and being mindful of the sentiments of our viewers have carried a scroll expressing regret during our episode yesterday." - (sic) Now, Big B and showrunner Siddhartha Basu have followed suit with an apology.
Sharing
a
snapshot
of
the
question,
Siddhartha
Basu
tweeted,
"No
insult
or
disrespect
whatsoever
was
intended
to
the
memory
of
Chhatrapati
Shivaji
Maharaj
in
a
question
on
KBC
11.
This
season
there
have
been
a
number
of
questions
which
have
all
used
his
name
with
the
full
title.
Apologies
for
the
inadvertent
omission
of
title
in
the
choice."
-
(sic)
Quoting Basu's tweet, Big B tweeted, "No disrespect meant at all .. apologies if it has hurt sentiments .. 🙏." - (sic)
For the uninitiated, the question that created the controversy was: Which of these rulers was the contemporary of Mughal emperor Aurangazeb? The options given were - Maharana Pratap, Rana Sanga, Maharaj Ranjit Singh and Shivaji. After the episode was aired, netizens slammed the channel, the makers and the host for the same, and threatened to ban KBC.
A ticker with an apology for the inadvertent, inaccurate reference to Chhatrapati Shivaji was also run in Thursday's episode, and the same video was shared by Sony TV on Instagram.
