Bhuvan Bam

Bhuvan Bam and his company brought proceedings before the Delhi High Court over unauthorised exploitation of his name, image, voice, characters such as Titu Mama and BB Ki Vines trademarks. On 13 January 2026, the court found a prima facie case and granted an interim injunction. On 28 April, faced with further uses including deepfakes and commercial listings, it extended the measures and ordered several platforms to remove specified URLs within 36 hours.

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A deepfake video circulated falsely portraying Bhuvan Bam as recommending investments in tennis betting through a bookmaker. His team warned the public and filed a complaint at Oshiwara police station in Mumbai.

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A sequence in the video 'Automatic Gaadi' caused major controversy over a joke considered sexualising and insulting towards women from mountainous regions. The National Commission for Women announced that it had asked Delhi Police to register an FIR and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to take action. Bam apologised and said he had removed the disputed section.

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Bhuvan Bam was regularly criticised for the extensive use of insults and swear words in BB Ki Vines, particularly because some of his audience was young. In public statements in 2018 and 2020, he defended the choice as a way of reproducing the everyday language of middle-class characters and argued that parents were responsible for minors' internet access.

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