Ranveer Allahbadia Row: Actor and comedian Vir Das is the most recent to comment on the issue surrounding 'India's Got Latent,' a show hosted by Samay Raina and featuring guest judges Ashish Chanchlani, Jaspreet Singh, Apoorva Makhija, and Ranveer Allahbadia. The show has drawn criticism for comments made on its platform.

The controversy started when one of the roast show contestants was questioned by Mr Allahbadia, the BeerBiceps Guy. He asked the female contestant, "Would you rather watch your parents have sex every day for the rest of your life or join in once and stop it forever?"

The comment caused a stir. A Parliamentary commission on information technology is debating whether to call Mr Allahbadia in response to concerns from multiple MPs.

"The audience is always welcome to debate what good comedy is," Mr Das wrote. "A good artist will take their feedback head down, mouth shut, and maybe evolve. Either way, the consequences of your comedy on your career and audience are pretty instant. That's a natural process."

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Mr Das then turned his attention to how conventional media contributed to the dispute. He said that the debate was being used by conventional media sources, which he called "irrelevant" and "bordering extinction," to attack new digital platforms.

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"But we are also watching a bunch of irrelevant mainstream media anchors bordering extinction coming together to take down new media that gets millions more views, longer interviews, and far more impact than their bloated studios and fat salary at 1 per cent of the cost. Whether you like the new media or not is irrelevant," he wrote.

"That's also what's happening here. And while they debate what good comedy is, please debate what good journalism is, and the news that they should be doing, the questions they should be asking, and who they should be asking them to," Mr Das added.

Meanwhile, the show's producers, Tushar Poojari and Saurabh Bothra, as well as Ranveer Allahbadia, Samay Raina, Apoorva Makhija, Jaspreet Singh, and Ashish Chanchlani, have been summoned by the National Commission for Women (NCW) amid the ongoing scandal.