Parthiban apologized after Trisha Krishnan slammed his remark about her. The comment was criticized as inappropriate and unprofessional, sparking a heated debate on social media. Trisha tweeted a message expressing disappointment at the public platform being used for the comment, without naming Parthiban directly.
"A microphone doesn't make a comment intelligent or humorous. It just makes stupidity louder. Crude words without knowledge say more about the speaker than the person they're aimed at," she wrote. Trisha also stated that she was told by the organizers that her name and image were added to the programme at the last moment at the request of an individual through his assistant.
Following the backlash, Parthiban issued an apology and shared a voice note explaining the incident. Admitting that his attempt at humour had gone wrong, he wrote, "What happened... has gone all wrong in this. There's no way but to regret!" In the voice note, he said that the comment was made during a rapid-fire round without much thought.
Parthiban added that after stepping off stage, he had asked the organizers to remove the clip related to Trisha, but by then it had already started circulating online. "I don't like it when problems get bigger," he said, while also expressing regret that the comment had hurt sentiments. The controversy comes amid intense public scrutiny surrounding Trisha's personal life.