Netflix gets legal notice over an episode in American sitcom, The Big Bang Theory. It uses a disrespectful and defamatory term to refer to Bollywood actor Madhuri Dixit.
Netflix Gets Legal Notice
Notably, political analyst Mithun Vijay Kumar wants the streaming giant remove the first episode of season 2 in a legal notice.
In the episode, Kunal Nayyar’s character Raj Koothrapalli and Jim Parsons’s character Sheldon Cooper compare Aishwarya Rai and Madhuri Dixit.
Sheldon Cooper calls Aishwarya Rai a poor man’s Madhuri Dixit. Raj Koothrapalli replies, “Aishwarya Rai is a goddess, by comparison, Madhuri Dixit is a leprous prostitute”.
As per the inputs, the legal notice has been sent to the Netflix office in Mumbai.