Case filed against comedian Vir Das over his 'I come from two Indias' video

In the video, Das is heard suggesting the alleged hypocrisy of the country through a six-minute monologue during his show at Washington's Kennedy Centre.

Taking offence, BJP leader from Delhi, Aditya Jha, said he will not "tolerate" the insult to the nation and will fight for Das' arrest.

In one of the lines from the monologue, Das said, "I come from an India where we worship women during the day and gang-rape them during the night."

Facing backlash on social media where he drew support too, Das issued a statement saying his monologue was a satire and he never intended to insult the country.

The 42-year-old wrote, "The video is a satire about the duality of two very separate Indias that do different things. Like any nation has light and dark, good and evil within it. None of this is a secret. The video appeals for (to) us to never forget that we are great. To never stop focusing on what makes us great.

"It ends in a gigantic patriotic round of applause for a country we all love, believe in, and are proud of. That there is more to our country than the headlines, a deep beauty. THAT'S the point of the video and the reason for the applause."

"Please do not be fooled by edited snippets," he added.

Slamming Das, filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri tweeted, "When Caught, LBW and clean bowled, starts making excuses. Unpardonable."

Supporting the comedian, Congress leader Kapil Sibal said on Twitter, "Vir Das, None can doubt that there are two India’s Just that we don’t want an Indian to tell the world about it We are intolerant and hypocritical."