Tannishtha Is Going Overboard For Publicity: Krushna Abhishek

The ‘Comedy Nights Bachao’ war just got uglier.

It’s a full-blown war between Tannishtha Chatterjee and Krushna Abhishek. (Photo Courtesy: Facebook/Tannishtha/ Yogen Shah)

Tannishtha Chatterjee recently walked out of the show Comedy Nights Bachao for being roasted about her skin colour. She took t o Facebook to share her traumatic experience of being on the show. The Parched actress pointed out that though she went in expecting it to be a ‘roast’, she was shocked to find that the nature of the content as highly discriminatory and racial.

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In response, Colors channel also issued an apology to the actor via social media, emphasising that discrimination is not the channel’s philosophy.

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But be that as may, Comedy Nights Bachao host Krushna Abhishek is in no mood to back down. In an interview to DNA, Krushna accused Tannishtha of not watching the show before coming and hence having no prior idea about it. He also said that the actress was kicking up a storm in order to hog the limelight,because he was giving more importance to her co-star Radhika Apte.

Krushna Abhishek is not apologetic about his show. (Photo: Yogen Shah)

Tannishtha is going overboard. She is doing this for publicity. We always meet the actors before they come on the show. I had asked her if she had seen the show before and if she was familiar with our (roast) concept. She said she hadn’t seen the show. She hadn’t watched even AIB Roast. If she didn’t know what it was, she shouldn’t have come on the show. Secondly, we gave more importance to Radhika Apte who is a bigger star. That must have also been a problem for Tannishtha.

Krushna Abhishek, Host, <i>Comedy Nights Bachao</i>

He also added that he did not call Tannishtha “kaali kalooti” but also that such humour was part of a roast.

I didn’t say that and I don’t know who said that. In any case, it is a roast format aur hamne wahi masti ki jo hamesha karte hai. In fact, we have toned it down from what it was earlier. Initially, she was enjoying, but after a while she told us she doesn’t like this kind of mass humour. Neither Radhika nor Leena had any problems with our comments. In fact, they were laughing and while going, both Radhika and Leena hugged me and danced with me.

Krushna Abhishek

(Source: DNA)