India Got Talent contestant Bunty Banerjee, a comedia, is currently going viral and becoming a topic of public discussion regarding her joke that alluded to one of the Bollywood’s artists, Deepika Padukone.
Bunty Banerjee made a joke about Deepika Padukone who had just become a mother and was battling depression. The video about her finally went viral on social media and many even criticized her joke.
The woman who comes from Bihari-Bengali started her joke by joking about the two states, then she shared her experience as a mother who takes care of a two-year-old child and some of the obstacles she faces, one of which is maintaining her sleep pattern.
“Deepika Padukone has also just become a mother, right? great. Now she knows what depression really feels like,” said Bunty Banerjee, accompanied by the sound of the audience laughing out loud.
After the video clip went viral and received a lot of criticism, she immediately clarified and said that she was not mocking the depression experienced by Deepika Padukone. “Real depression happens when your sleep is disturbed, and your child wakes up at 3a, and wants to eat or play whatever they want,” Bunty said.
The video, which has been viewed nearly two million times on platform X, was directly responded to by Samay Raina, who is also a comedian, who wrote in his post, “Guys, this is not fair. You can’t be angry on Twitter. Go and get angry in my YouTube comments section so that at least some ad revenue can come.”
Internet users slammed the show and comedians who laughed and applauded Bunty Banerjee’s joke about Deepika Padukone battling depression after becoming a mother.
“I think these women are making it difficult for all women by belittling everything we go through to get validation from men-reproductive health, childbirth, breakups (here she assumes that’s the reason), mental health in general, postpartum depression, the stress of being a new mother,” wrote one user.
While another commented, “Everyone in this frame should be ashamed of themselves. There is no such category for depression. Stupidity increases with stupid events like this where people actually participate. Shameful how everyone finds it funny. Stupid!!”
Another user even took a dig at some of the other panelists who witnessed Bunty’s joke. “The entire panel should be ashamed. And seeing as one of the panelists is renowned neurologist Dr. Sid Warrier. Shameful.”