Bobby Deol’s Aashram 2 served legal notice by Karni Sena for ‘degrading Hindu religion’

The first season of Prakash Jha’s web series starring Bobby Deol as a godman was a huge success. Owing to the popularity, the makers have announced the second season of the show.

The trailer of Aashram season two released a few days ago wherein Bobby Deol reprises his character, Kashipur Waale Baba Nirala. However the show has invited legal trouble.

Surjeet Singh, Pradesh Sangathan Mahamantri of Karni Sena has sent a legal notice to Jha and MX Player, and said that the show targets ‘the ancient tradition, custom, culture of Hindu, Ashramas Dharma’ in their notice.

“At the outset, my client states that the web series named AASHRAM- Chapter-2 the Dark Side, Official Trailer, which was released on MX player and the same was Produced and directed by you no. 1 Mr Prakash Jha, under Prakash Jha Production Creation and the said web series have deeply hurt the sentiments of the people at large and it is also going to spread negative goodwill about Hindu religion on future generation to come. The Character`s shown in official trailer is not targeting individual personality but directly targeting the Ancient tradition, custom, culture of Hindu, Ashramas Dharma which disturbs people at large,” the notice read.

The notice further added, “The first season of Ashram web series shown lots of objectionable scene degrading the image of Aashram in Hindu customs and Now Aashram-2 web series official trailer continued degrading the image Aashram in hindu religion, My client condemn such repeated attempt to degrading Hindu religion and ask you to remove official web series trailer and stop full web series release with immediate effect.”

The second season titled "Aashram: Chapter 2 The Dark Side” also stars Aaditi Pohankar, Chandan Roy Sanyal, Darshan Kumaar, Anupriya Goenka, Adhyayan Suman and multiple others and is scheduled to release on November 11.