Stand up comedian Abhishek Kumar who is known for his Instagram reel videos, deleted his recent one after receiving flak from his own followers. In the video he made with Maya S Krishnan, Abhishek tried to create humour by recreating the “slang” words Chennai people use. Titling the video as “Sexy Chennai Accent”, the duo made fun of Chennai people who utter the English words in a wrong way. The video created huge outrage among his followers which made the creator to delete it and seek apology.

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Abhishek Kumar is enjoying one and half lakh plus followers for his official Instagram account and identifies himself as an actor, Stand up Comedian, Writer through his bio. He had uploaded 300 plus posts and his recent reel on “Famous Sounds Of Instagram” went insanely viral with many cinema celebrities sharing it in their stories and timelines. Lately, he came up with his next video, depicting how people of Chennai utter particular English words as per their comfort.

With Maya S Krishnan, the comedian pronounced “April” as “Aaapral”, “Station” as “Tation”, “Xerox” and “Jerox”. The duo went on to say “Sachin Tendulkar” and “Sachun Tendulkar”, “Poori” as “Boori” and “Office” as “Obees”. They also trolled the people of Chennai for calling “Kamal Haasan” for “Kamalagaasan”, “A.R Rahman” as “A.R Ragumaan”. “Jero”, “Lubber”, “Mitchar” took place in their video as well.

Watch it below :

Your Chennai accent is so sexy! pic.twitter.com/96FERUGU8R

— Vishakan Soundararajan (@Vishak_Sound) September 15, 2021

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“These two “artists” who made that ‘your chennai accent is so sexy say it again’ reel is so unfunny I can’t-“ a twitter user said to express his/her displeasure over the reel video whereas another one said “We don’t say it as aaapral it’s just April, my school aayammas speak better english then you guys..”

Check out some of the reactions below :

Your Chennai accent is so sexy! pic.twitter.com/96FERUGU8R

— Vishakan Soundararajan (@Vishak_Sound) September 15, 2021

These two “artists” who made that ‘your chennai accent is so sexy say it again’ reel is so unfunny I can’t-

— olu-oombics winner 😌🧘‍♀️ (@wathakulambu) September 15, 2021

We don’t say it as aaapral it’s just April, my school aayammas speak better english then you guys..

— நீலகருசிவப்பு (@ambmarxperi) September 15, 2021

Not funny. Didn’t laugh. Not a chuckle. Not a giggle. Not a single haha. Not even a hehe. Not a slight smile or a smirk. Not one bit of that was funny or amusing. I’m not laughing. No one’s laughing.

— ✍️ (@Riya07_) September 16, 2021

What kind of shit is this??? Is this what now comedy?? Go take your elite shit somewhere else. Enga bhasha kindal panni video potu attention seek panra kevalama ila,😤 @theabishekkumar @maya_skrishnan #Shameless #buggers https://t.co/BTzi9UwAYk

— Wear Mask n Stay Safe 🙏 (@imRamRk) September 16, 2021

Before mocking others english accent these shit heads should know that it is not Rahman,it is ரகுமான் in Tamil. Joke is on you fu*****. https://t.co/E4ZTfDrnxK

— பாமரன் (@Paamaran_tweets) September 16, 2021

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“Hi look at me. I’m perfectly educated and privileged. I see people who aren’t blessed with resources around me. I don’t help them correct their mistakes, I’ll pick that up and milk it in the name of crass comedy catering to elite audience. Give me more attention.” based comedy. https://t.co/oXu0Scm75P

— Vinod Ramnath (@NaanumEngineer) September 15, 2021

Nobody says it as boori as long as I know… And stick this lame ass komedi in your ass https://t.co/geMhK0ppLv

— ッ 𝕾𝖙𝖚𝖒𝖕𝖘 𝖋𝖑𝖞𝖎𝖓𝖌 ッ (@ViswaaTweets) September 16, 2021

This is so inappropriate at multiple levels, shows the filthy casteist mindset of both Abishek Kumar & Maya Krishnan. https://t.co/08tveigFNQ

— Balajee K Asokan (@BalumaDoluma) September 16, 2021

Rahman is written ரகுமான் in Tamil, ryt? What’s their fucking problem with Tamil people calling a celebrity from Tamilnadu in Tamil?? https://t.co/QtIIgaNVBB

— Rey Skywalker (@the__Jedi_Code) September 15, 2021

who told these people they are funny? also i’ve never ever heard anyone say april like that https://t.co/1pbFdlSrgE

— Roshan (@duwydwi) September 15, 2021

வெள்ளக்காரன்கூட callல தப்பா எதாவது பேசுனா ஏத்துக்குறான் இந்த எலைட்டு எச்சைங்கதான்🤢🤢🤢 https://t.co/RseONIFvpa

— சமத்துவ STR Deva (@subramaniandeva) September 16, 2021

Jokes on accents are rooted in privilege. It’s also rooted in colonialism in the sense that any bilingual person will develop an accent in the second language. Jokes like these started in counties where English is the first language. TDRL “You don’t sound like us. You’re weird” https://t.co/rZmogZbluV

— Nil (@Annenorupupps) September 16, 2021

Reacting to the outrage caused, Abhishek Kumar took down the video from his timeline and came up with a note saying “HEY GUYS. WE’VE TAKEN DOWN THE LAST REEL. AFTER UPLOADING WE’VE LEARNT THAT THE REEL WAS INSENSITIVE AND IT WAS NOT OUR INTENTION TO INSULT/MOCK ANYONE. WE WERE MERELY FOLLOWING THE INSTAGRAM TREND OF SEXY ACCENTS. APOLOGIES FOR THE SAME, WILL MAKE SURE IT DOESN’T REPEAT AGAIN. WILL DO BETTER NEXT TIME!”

Here’s the screen shot of his story :