Youngsters rally against Ekta Kapoor on blogs

PTI

NEW DELHI: Blogosphere is agog with outrage over TV producer Ekta Kapoor's reported plans to serialise the murder of teenager Aarushi Talwar, with youngsters reacting angrily on social networking sites to any such move.

Calling Kapoor's reported decision as 'mean' and intended to 'cash in on the death of an innocent child', youngsters have rallied against the soap opera queen on social networking sites like Orkut and Facebook.

Kapoor's Balaji Telefilms has already earned the ire of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, which has written to the Information and Broadcasting Ministry to stop it from serialising the Aarushi murder case.

Various online social fora on these networking sites campaigning for justice for the girl have been flooded with postings flaying the reported move.

"This is the utmost decline of humanity. The poor girl lost her life and now people are cashing in on her death. This is so mean. How could they do this just to increase the TRP of their serials?" writes a member of the Orkut community 'Tribute to Aarushi Talwar'.

The criticism came after the promos of the popular TV serial 'Kahani Ghar Ghar Ki', having a close resemblance to the murder of Aarushi, were aired.

However, Balaji Telefilms has denied that story of the serial has any resemblance to the murder case.

"We are saying that the characters in the planned episode in the serial concerned have no resemblance to people in the actual crime. And if at all there is any, it is purely coincidental," Creative Head of Balaji Telefilms Nivedita Basu
said.

However, some members do not find anything wrong in serialising the murder case.

"It is a free country and everyone is free to express an opinion on every issue. It is a bold step to put light on such issues and to provide the common man with such re-enactments so that the common man can understand both the sides and may improve their sensibilities," writes a member on a community on Orkut.