Gaurav Gera apologises to Neha Kakkar after body shaming the singer during an act

Indian Idol 11 judge Neha Kakkar was recently mocked for her height and talent by the popular comedians Gaurav Gera and Kiku Sharda on the TV show Dr. Pran Lele. Neha then took to social media to slam the TV show for body-shamming her. During the show, Kiku Sharda and Gaurav Gera were seen in the characters of their show and address a short-heighted girl as Neha Kankar. Kiku tells the short heighted girl that she earns money by singing 'Kuch Bhi'. It's not just her face but also her music that's made fun of. Neha and her brother Tony Kakkar expressed being hurt by these comments on Neha on their Instagram accounts.

Gaurav Gera has now come up and apologised to Neha Kakkar. In an interview with the Times Of India, Gaurav stated that they never wanted to hurt her. He said, "I would not want to hurt her because I am a fan of hers. I love the way she sings and her songs are definitely parties ki jaan (her songs add fun to the party). Even if I don't know her personally, we share greetings with each other whenever we meet. Her talent is totally appreciated, I am nobody to prove it to her. She has 30 million followers on Instagram who are there to prove her that how much they love her. And she has not directly blamed us. She has also shared her disappointment towards the channel. The channel has removed the video. Kiku and I we both were talking and we are a fan of hers. Who doesn't love her. We are proud of her. She is got India name and fame. My idea was not to hurt her. She is fantastic, a rockstar and she doesn't need me to say it. I didn't even know about the height part, and I myself don't have an average height. Kiku is short heighted. We make fun of each other so much in all the episodes. Meri koi aukat nahi hai to tell her anything... (I am no one to comment on her). I really had no idea that she would be so hurt." Gaurav also shared that their idea was not to hurt Neha. "The idea was definitely not to hurt her. She shouldn't have any haters, we have not done this because we hate her. I am just an actor and that is just a show. We were given a few lines to enact by the writers, the channel, the production house. They are more sensible than us and they have their own working equation with Neha because she does a show (Indian Idol 11) for them. I don't have that equation with them. I did a show after 13 years with the channel Jassi Jaissi Koi Nahin, so I leave it to them. I am hired to act and mouth the line which are given to me, definitely we tried (Kiku Sharda and I) a lot to town down few things. We cut a lot of things because we felt it was not in good taste. We did tried our best. We shot a lot throughout the day," revealed Gaurav.

 

He also said that he will be now extra careful about taking up such things in any of his shows. He said, "I have always tried to stay away from controversy. I have tried my best to even stay away from shows on TV. Even during the shoot we kept saying where we felt it is going overboard. We tried our best, but whatever they felt should go they aired and rest they edited out. You have seen what I do when it comes to comedy. I thought they (Channel and Production house) work on so many comedy shows on the small screen they must be aware of the sensibilities. They know what runs and also they had an equation with Neha so they should have known where to stop. But I would like to apologise to her and I love her. She is fantastic."

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