Siar klip Amitabh Bachchan dalam laporan kematian Shashi Kapoor, BBC mohon maaf

STESEN televisyen BBC membuat permohonan maaf selepas menyiarkan klip video yang salah ketika penyiaran berita kematian legenda Bollywood, Shashi Kapoor.

Kesilapan itu dibuat sewaktu segmen tribute khas untuk Kapoor dalam program berita 'BBC News at 10', pada Selasa.

Klip video yang disiarkan adalah klip Amitabh Bachchan dan Rishi Kapoor.

Ia mengundang kemarahan ramai, khususnya peminat fanatik Bollywood yang berpendapat ia sangat pelik kerana ketiga-tiga bintang itu mempunyai rupa paras yang berlainan.

Hang on @bbcnews Shashi Kapoor has died not Amitabh Bachan or Rishi Kapoor, who you've weirdly used to illustrate the story. pic.twitter.com/48jo6DGjU6
— Media Diversified (@WritersofColour) December 4, 2017

Shocking to note @BBC insults a veteran actor Shashi Kapoor by showing clips of @SrBachchan & @chintskap whilst reporting his death today!!!@BBC must apologize!!! Clearly they have no clue. RIP Shashi Kapoor pic.twitter.com/XMT4QJCy53
— GABBAR (@Gabbar_food) December 4, 2017

C'mon!!! We don't all look the same!! /p>— Hafsah Aneela Bashir (@Hafsah_A_Bashir) December 4, 2017

@paulroyall I hope you now have a photograph of the real Shashi Kapoor? Poor man can't even rest in peace because the BBC credited another 'brown person ' with his work. #NotTheSame
— Graeme (@Lurganexile) December 4, 2017

BBC melalui penerbit program itu, Paul Royall, mengeluarkan permohonan maaf sebaik sahaja menyedari kesilapan itu.

Kata Royall, ia merupakan kesilapan yang tidak sepatutnya berlaku dan tidak menggambarkan kualiti sebenar stesen televisyen berkenaan.

#BBCNewsTen is very sorry wrong images were used to mark the death of Shashi Kapoor. Not our usual standards and I apologise for any upset.
— Paul Royall (@paulroyall) December 4, 2017

BBC bukan yang pertama melakukan kesilapan berhubung laporan kematian Sashi. Sebuah stesen televisyen di India secara tidak sengaja meletakkan nama pemimpin Kongres, Shashi Tharoor, ketika melaporkan kematian Kapoor di Twitter.

Tharoor, menerusi Twitter, memaklumkan dia dihujani panggilan daripada wartawan selepas penyiaran tweet berkenaan.

I feel a part of me is gone. A great actor, smart, cosmopolitan, impossibly handsome & w/a name that was often confused w/mine. (My office got two calls from journalists today about my reportedly serious ill-health!) I will miss #ShashiKapoor. Condolences2his family&all his fans pic.twitter.com/fSz3jafPZJ
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) December 4, 2017