Lot's of similar kind of stuff was said to Asim too by Paras and at times by Shukla. Even Asim also said things along those likes at times.
In fact one of the reasons how Asim came into spotlight in the beginning episodes was when he was standing upto Paras was saying all kinds of stuff which reeked of homophobia.
Now when Asim said something very unintentionally to Gupta it became an issue because of Gupta's own preferences.
Most of the people in society are homophobes it is just that they try to conceal for the fear sounding politically wrong or they want to think of themselves as liberal minded people.We all are very careful about how we come across when we say things on public platforms.
But these people are under scrutiny 24*7 so their thoughts on sensitive stuff like this will come out whether they intended or not.
It was very clear that Asim did not intend it to make fun of Gupta.
Vishal and Paras also came across equally bad when they were mocking Gupta.
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Just like sexual preferences are a personal matter and what people think of alternate sexual preferences is also a personal matter.
I don't think Asim's comments were meant to disrespect/hurt Gupta.
Edited by aparnauma - 6 years ago