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Samay Raina , who made headlines over his controversy on India’s Got Latent , shared a new video on his YouTube channel. There, he spoke about the controversy, how he dealt with it, and much more. He also recalled how Kapil Sharma was set to be the next guest on his show. However, the show ended amid the controversy.


He announced Season 2 of India’s Got Latent in his new video. “I don’t think my show would have ended on a bigger high,” he said in the special, uploaded last night. Before rephrasing it to, “I don’t think Season One of my show would have ended on a bigger high than this. I will definitely bring back the show because I enjoyed doing that show. I want to do a wild show and you watch the softie version after censors.”


In an emotional moment of what was an over one-hour-long act, the 28-year-old comedian recalled how he finally broke down when he saw the parents of his friend, and the owner of the show’s venue Habitat Club, Balraj Singh Ghai, caught in the crossfire.


“Ranveer is getting death threats, his family is scared and everyone is messaging me, ‘Bro, what happened?’ I was feeling so guilty that morning because something that I had uploaded had caused all this… Then I saw one video that Balraj’s wife sent to me and that broke me completely. That was the final nail in the coffin.”


“Inside Habitat, Balraj’s parents, who are in their 70s, and they have made no mistake, they just run that comedy club where we used to shoot, they were falling to the feet of young cops and requesting, ‘Sir, please let us go, we have done nothing.’ I f***ing broke down looking at the video, and I was just crying,” Raina said.


The comedian said when his mother called to check on him, he was so disturbed that he did not pick up her video call. But when he did, she was shaking with fear and worry. He also spoke about how Apoorva Makhija, who was also at the receiving end of the backlash and named in multiple FIRs, was only defending herself from a misogynistic comment.


“I now have three FIRs on me. I always knew that this would happen, but I used to think that I would get in trouble for something that I say. In that episode, I didn’t even say anything. I was just sitting in a corner. We Kashmiris always die in the crossfire.”


“But they again repeated their question and I thought about it because whether to apologise or not is a serious question for a comedian. I remembered a line by George Orwell. He was a great writer, and he once said, ’Every joke is a tiny revolution and the revolution must never stop.’

The comedian also roasted the media, politicians, comedian Sunil Pal, singer B Praak and “Shaktimaan” actor Mukesh Khanna in his inimitable style.


“B Praak came to criticise us. He said, ‘He will never attend our podcast’. Who called you, bro? All of them were ready to eat us alive. Politicians, celebrities, Sunil Pal. He said, ‘They should learn from Kapil Sharma’. And Kapil Sharma was to be the next guest on the show and he was messaging me how he loved my show. Shaktimaan was also there. What do you say to him, ‘Sorry Shaktimaan’?


“He said it will leave a bad influence on kids. Really? I don’t know how many of you watched TV in the ‘Shaktimaan’ era. Every other month, there would be news that some child had jumped from a building after watching ‘Shaktimaan’.” Raina also addressed the elephant in the room when he answered why he decided to retain Allahbadia’s controversial line in the first place.


“But what you don’t know is that he said it eight times. He said many other vulgar things that I edited out. From my POV, I had killed 99.9 per cent germs.” The comedian said he was determined to defend Allahbadia till the end, but he couldn’t even defend the YouTuber at his home.