Sambhavna Seth: Our videos are not meant to insult anybody

Humne kahi bhi insult nahin kiya. Humne kahi bhi racism wali baat nahin ki...yaa kahi bhi adivasi ki baat nahin ki. And yet the Adivasi community blamed us, and [said] ‘Delete the video and say sorry’,” says actor Sambhavna Seth, who faced backlash along with husband Avinash Dwivedi, after appearing to mock their househelp in a video.

Seth, who rose to fame with the reality show Bigg Boss however, says it was “unintentional” and later deleted the video and apologised. “Yeh ek maheene pehle ka video hai. Suddenly yeh wali baat kahan se aayi mujhe nahin pata. We make videos for entertainment, humour, laugh... live and let live. When we make videos, it’s not to insult anybody or any community,” she adds.

Popular for her Bhojpuri films, and now her Youtube channel, Seth feels people must see the other side too, before jumping to conclusions. “Mere paas aise comments aa rahe hai ki ‘Aapne mazak banaya’. Woh log tab kaha hote hain jab hum unhi maids ka khayal rakh rahe hote hai ya vaccination dila rahe hote hai. We call her didi. Idhar kahin bhi oonch neech, amir gareeb, yeh saari baatein aati hi nahin hai,” she explains.

Citing the example of another recent video wherein she is speaking Bhojpuri and her husband is talking in Punjabi, Seth says, “I don’t know how to speak Bhojpuri, and my husband doesn’t understand Punjabi. We both made fun of the languages, but people loved it. No one said bhaasha ki insult ki hai.”

Having said that, she admits that she’s going to be more careful about what to upload in future, and adds, “Yeh unintentional thi. Par humare liye sabak hain, hum aisa nahin karenge aage se.”