00:00Who hurt you, Sakshi?
00:02Men's!
00:03Men's!
00:04That one exchange has now become one of the most viral moments from India's Got Latent.
00:09Thank you so much.
00:10Because of you, people will love men a lot more.
00:13But as memes flooded social media targeting contestant Sakshi Jha,
00:17Comedian Sameh Reina has stepped in with an appeal not to troll her beyond the point of decency.
00:22I'm a senzi. I don't like men's.
00:24I don't drugs. I don't do anything.
00:26She don't drugs. Fuckers. She don't drugs.
00:31Sakshi Jha, a Bihar based teacher and content creator,
00:34walked into the India's Got Latent stage as a relatively unknown contestant
00:39and introduced herself as a self-proclaimed man-hater.
00:42But I genuinely hate Mardjaat.
00:44What do you think I'm going to die?
00:46And here's what followed.
00:49Please don't call yourself a feminist.
00:51Who was Gautam Buddha in Bihar?
00:53Who?
00:54By the end of the audition, Sakshi Jha had gone from being an unknown contestant
00:58to one of the seasons most talked about yet controversial faces.
01:03If you're a man-hater, how does your dad feel about this?
01:06I genuinely hate him. I've told him ki yaar, you know.
01:09Why so mean yaar? He's your father yaar.
01:11I mean, he is my father but at last he's a man.
01:14Clips from her performance quickly spread across Instagram and X,
01:17triggering fierce arguments over whether her act was a satire, edgy comedy or simply in poor taste.
01:23Many users argued that repeatedly mocking an entire gender wasn't comedy but provocation
01:29and said the judges' zero scores reflected exactly how the performance landed.
01:33Others defended her right to experiment with controversial material,
01:37saying comedy is subjective even when it misses the mark.
01:40As the debate continues to rage online,
01:43Sameh Reina's message stands in contrast to the outrage.
01:46Criticize the act of your want, he says,
01:48but don't forget to be kind to the person behind it.
01:51What do you think about this?
01:52Tell us in the comments below.
01:54No.
