No Moral Policing, Says Minister, Softening Stand on AIB Roast

After pledging an inquiry to determine if a roast of actors Ranveer Singh and Arjun Kapoor,  employed obscene language and content, the Maharashtra  government has said it will not exercise "moral policing."

Maharashtra minister for cultural affairs Vinod Tawde first said "Such vulgarity is a crime and based on facts which will emerge, the government will file a case against them."

But later, he tweeted the probe would be limited to determining whether the event, held in Mumbai on December, had necessary clearances.

On #AIBRoast, will only enquire if the AIB had taken appropriate certificate. No moral policing if they r allowed by law, I can't stop them.

- Vinod Tawde (@TawdeVinod) February 2, 2015

The roast, the first of its kind in India, featured a panel of eight and 'Roastmaster' Karan Johar putting the 'Gunday' actors through an expletive-laced hour-and-a-half of jokes about their on-screen and off-screen lives.

The  event was  filmed in a Mumbai stadium with an audience of 4,000. An edited version of the show was  on YouTube last week and has been watched more than eight million times so far.  

Audience A-listers included actors Deepika Padukone, Alia Bhatt and Sonakshi Sinha.  

AIB is a collective of comics Tanmay Bhat, Rohan Joshi, Gursimran Khamba and Ashish Shakya who perform  on a YouTube channel.  The group posted this comment on Twitter
 

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- All India Bakchod (@AllIndiaBakchod) February 2, 2015