Nurses Want the Kapil Sharma Show Off-Air, But Why?

 

Nursing staff from different medical colleges and hospitals held a demonstration at Guru Nanak Dev Hospital in Amritsar, protesting against the newly launched show and accusing it of demeaning the profession.

 

The Nurse Association has lodged a complaint against the show host, Kapil Sharma and two others and demanded an apology from the team. According to the Federation, one of the episodes of the show showed the nursing profession in bad light.

 

The Federation has demanded that all versions of the particular episode should be removed from all media platforms including the internet. It has also demanded an apology from Navjot Singh Sidhu (who is a part of the show) and condemned how Sidhu whose wife is also a doctor, can encourage such objectification of the profession.

 

"How can Sidhu be part of a show like this that demeans someone's profession? He keeps laughing at jokes made about the medical profession, including those on doctors, even when his wife Navjot Kaur Sidhu (Amritsar-East MLA) is a doctor. We as a community expected that Sidhu would not support this nonsense and such vulgar jokes. Nurses have been objectified on the show since its beginning," said Raj Bedi, State General-Secretary of Punjab Nursing Association to a national tabloid.

 

The Federation said that it felt dishonoured by an episode in which Rochelle Rao, dressed as a nurse was hyper sexualised, addressed as darling' and was also shown indulging in a song routine with the doctor.

 

The objectification of nurses is nothing new in the Indian television and cinema. They have been stereotypically depicted as an object of sexual fantasy in the name of humour several times in the past.