Indian Television’s one of the most loved show Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashma found itself in a trouble when it reportedly hurt the sentiments of Sikh community.
The 2287th episode of the show featured the actor Roshan Singh Sodhi as playing the character of 10th Guru of Sikh’s Guru Gobind Singh Ji. This didn’t go well with the community and as a result, the channel and the makers of TMKOC received a warning from SGPC for displaying inaccurate things about the religion.
Kirpal Singh Badungar, the chief of SGPC said-
“No actor or any character can equate himself with the tenth Sikh Guru Gobind Singh. Such an act is unpardonable.”
It was also being said that SGPC has demanded a complete ban on the show which has been running on TV since 2008.
Clarification from TMKOC makers
Now the team TMKOC has finally issued a response regarding the matter. Clarifying on the matter, the makers posted a tweet on TMKOC’s official Twitter channel-
https://twitter.com/TMKOC_NTF/status/908684123740532737
In Episode 2287 of TMKOC, Sodhi was dressed up as Guru Gobind Singh Ji ka Khalsa. We request viewers to not misinterpret it in any other way
Actor Gurcharan Singh Sodhi also clarified regarding the matter. He was quoted as saying by Indian Wiki Media-
“To begin with, no one in the Sikh community can ever enact Sikh Guru Gobind Singh, he is the ultimate guru of all of us. In the show, I depicted the role of Sikh Guru Gobind Singh Khalsa and my dialogues mention the same. The communication error happened when at the beginning of the show, at the credit title, mistakenly it showed Gurucharan Singh as Sikh Guru Gobind Singh and due to space issue the Khalsa word shifted down. Had this not happened all would have been fine.”
He further added-
“I am hopeful that all will be well as we did not do anything wrong. I, being a Sikh, know that we are a peace-loving community and can sort out issues via dialogue.”
The creator of show, Asit Kumar Modi clarified and tweeted-
Roshan singh Sodhi became Guru Gobind singh Ji Ka Khalsa not 🙏🏻Guru Gobind singh.Please check his dialogues and the episodes. https://t.co/TitwKTBylu
— Asit Kumarr Modi (@AsitKumarrModi) September 17, 2017
Roshan singh Sodhi became Guru Gobind singh Ji Ka Khalsa not 🙏🏻Guru Gobind singh.Please check his dialogues and the episodes.
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