Mumbai: Farah Khan, Bollywood film director and choreographer Friday apologised for allegedly hurting the religious sentiments of Christianity community in a TV show.
Farah Khan along with actress Raveena Tandon and comedian Bharti Singh is facing police case for their show TV ‘Backbenchers’ allegedly demeaning a religious word of Christianity.
Farah on Friday took to Twitter to apologise on behalf of entire team of Flipkart Video Original’s quiz show “Backbenchers”, on which she serves as the host. Farah is anchoring the show.
“I’m extremely saddened that some sentiments have been inadvertently hurt by a recent episode of my show. I respect all religions, and it would never be my intention to disrespect any.On behalf of the entire team, Raveena Tandon, Bharti Singh and Myself.. we do sincerely apologise,” the filmmaker tweeted.
Christian Front of Ajnala Block president Sonu Jafar has filed an FIR with the police along with the video footage of the show aired on Christmas eve alleging that “the religious sentiments of Christians have been hurt..”.
The FIR was registered at Ajnala police station in Amritsar under section 295-A of the IPC which deals with deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs.
Raveena also posted an apology on social media on Thursday saying she never intended to insult any religion.
“I haven’t said a word that can be interpreted as an insult to any religion. The three of us (Farah Khan, Bharti Singh and I) never intended to offend anyone, but in case we did, my most sincere apologies to those who were hurt,” she tweeted.
