Film and television producer Ekta Kapoor and her mother Shobha Kapoor have got embroiled in a legal battle now. According to PTI, a local court in Bihar’s Begusarai issued arrest warrants against the mother-daughter duo on charges of insulting soldiers and hurting the sentiments of their family members in her web series XXX Season 2.
The court of judge Vikas Kumar issued the warrant on Wednesday, September 28, on the basis of a complaint lodged by Shambhu Kumar, an ex-serviceman and a resident of Begusarai, reported PTI. In his complaint filed in 2020, he had alleged that XXX Season 2 featured several objectionable scenes related to a soldier’s wife.
“The series was aired on ALTBalaji, an OTT platform owned by Ekta Kapoor’s Balaji Telefilms Ltd. Shobha Kapoor is also associated with Balaji Telefilms,” said Hrishikesh Pathak, advocate of Shambhu Kumar.
“The court had issued summons to them (Kapoors) and asked them to appear before it in connection with the matter. They (Kapoors), however, informed the court that certain scenes in the series were removed after the objection. But they did not appear before the court following which the warrant was issued against them,” Pathak added.
For the uninitiated, back in 2020 as well, netizens had called out the web series by trending the hashtag AltBalaji Insults Army on Twitter. One of the episodes in the second season, titled Pyaar aur Plastic, had landed Ekta in a controversy. In the episode, an army jawaan’s wife is seen having an extra marital affair while her husband is away on duty.
XXX is a 2018 erotic comedy-drama directed by Ken Ghosh. It stars Kyra Dutt, Aparnaa Bajpai, Rithvik Dhanjani, Shantanu Maheshwari, Ankit Gera, Pryanca Talukdar and Aparna Sharma. XXX features five different stories which explore different aspects of sexual relationships.
– Actually published in India Today