What did dancer Raghav Juyal say on a reality show stage that sparked controversy?
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00:00That girl is speaking in different languages, in Chinese, sometimes in gibberish Chinese.
00:04Obviously, I am being called a racist.
00:06I have my family in Sikkim, I have my family in Arunachal Pradesh, I have friends in Nagaland.
01:00Hello friends, a small clipping of mine, a small clipping from a very big show has gone viral.
01:08In which I am getting hate comments, hate comments, obviously I am being called a racist.
01:12I want to say something about it to all of you.
01:17I want to tell the story of that clipping before that.
01:22Because I want you to watch the whole show and come once.
01:26And then judge that clipping, because it will not be right to take out such a small clipping and judge it.
01:33For me, for my mental health, and for those who know me.
01:39What happened is that a small girl, Gunjan, from Assam, Guwahati, came.
01:46And we generally ask the kids, what are your hobbies?
01:49So the kids say, dance, I have come to dance, they tell the rest of the hobbies.
01:53Gunjan said, I have a hobby, I can speak Chinese, I have a talent, Chinese means gibberish.
01:59So from the first episode itself, we asked her, what is your talent?
02:04She said, I can speak Chinese, and we all laughed that the kids can say anything, I can fly, I can fly and go to the sea.
02:13She said, I can speak Chinese, I have a talent.
02:16And everyone started clapping, wow, tell me, speak Chinese, show me, show me.
02:20The girl spoke Chinese, gibberish Chinese, obviously.
02:23From there, the sequence started in all the episodes.
02:27She used to speak like that, we used to say, say, now speak in this, now speak in Chinese, now speak in another language, which is the language of that planet.
02:35This is how we used to speak to her.
02:37So for this reason, in one episode, that too in the last few episodes, I called her in her way.
02:42Because her creativity was going on in all the episodes.
02:46If you watch all the episodes, you will understand, you will not call me a racist in one clipping.
02:51I am very connected to Northeast, my family lives there, I have my family in Sikkim, I have my family in Arunachal Pradesh, I have friends in Nagaland.
02:59And not like that, special friends, with whom I have grown up.
03:05You know, I was in boarding school, and I am a man who corrects everything politically, or tries to take a stand, whatever injustice is happening, racism is happening.
03:22In fact, because of that, I don't get abused sometimes, that I am taking a stand for someone, for a religion, for a caste, for a culture, for a creed.
03:30So I am so sorry if you are offended by this.
03:34I, my, the motive of the Colors channel was not that something like this should happen.
03:39And before judging her by making any clipping viral, please, I want you all to watch all the episodes once, what is going on with this girl.
03:50What story is going on with her.
03:53We have asked her before, what is your talent?
03:55She said, I can speak Chinese.
03:57I can speak with people from other planets.
04:01All these kids speak, they dream.
04:03And my job is there, what the creatives have decided, after that I do it.
04:09It is very rare that I follow the script.
04:11It is not my habit, I follow the script and do the show.
04:13For the first time, I told them that this girl has to be called like this.
04:17Because from the beginning, that girl is speaking in different languages, sometimes in Chinese, sometimes in gibberish Chinese.
04:21So call her that way.
04:23And I, so please, I want you all to watch, watch the whole episode.
04:27Then you can go and call me racist or whatever you want to call me.
04:29The internet is empty, you can call me that.
04:31Now you are also empty.
04:33So please, understand this.
04:35Thank you very much.