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“Celebrities should maintain a thin line between fun and facts. They have to be more responsible about the content they are sharing,” the lawyer added. Regarding his decision to sue the RJ along with her company, Aneek said: “There are some issues which are sensitive. The level of humour in these shows is so low that most of the time it is just indecent and nothing like a prank at all. Moreover, she made the call based on the request of a 14-year-old girl and where is the broadcasting standard of that?” “And did she ever think about the consequences if the recipients had a nervous breakdown? Will she then be responsible? What if your nephew pulls a similar prank on you after seeing this sort of content online or listening to these? What if someone molests a girl and then say it was just a prank, will that be alright?” he raised a series of questions, which reflect his soon-to-be-taken legal action against Tasnim and Spice FM. Before the escalating circulation of the video, model Tasnovaa Elvin had also raised her voice against the RJ and her show after receiving a prank call from the same show.
Screenshot of the Facebook post of model Tasnovaa Elvin
According to a post on Tasnovaa’s Facebook profile, she got publicly offended when the RJ asked her to be a part of “casting couch.”
Despite claims from some followers of the show that the prank calls were staged, the contents of the videos remain controversial and are still being widely criticized.
However, after the outrage spread, Spice FM had added a disclaimer only with the video in question advising viewer discretion and suggesting the audience to skip the video “if you can’t take a joke.”