'BBC' erroneously uses pics of Amitabh Bachchan, Rishi Kapoor while covering Shashi Kapoor's death

Needless to say, people were not happy with the media house's massive blunder

The news of legend Shashi Kapoor’s death has hit everyone hard and the whole world seems to be grieving. Having been part of plentiful international movies and projects over these years, the veteran actor’s death encouraged accolades from media houses from all around the globe.

One of those media houses was the highly commended BBC – lauded for its precise and unprejudiced reporting. However, even the best of us make ‘mistakes’ sometimes, including BBC.

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

During the coverage of Shashi's death, the channel made a massive blunder by airing footage of Amitabh Bachchan from Kabhi Kabhi instead of the Deewaar actor.

PHOTO: FILE

However, it didn’t stop there. To make matters worse, they followed Amitabh up with a clip of Shashi’s nephew Rishi Kapoor.

PHOTO: HINDUSTAN TIMES

In actual fact, they failed to show Shashi's footage altogether and needless to say, people were not happy.

https://twitter.com/Maaiysa/status/937824594102276103

Individuals from around the world took to Twitter to call BBC out for its ignorance and insensitivity, and the necessary calls were made to make sure the channel knew exactly how insulting their error was.

Shame, problem when you don’t have a diverse team in the room - and obviously all those brown people look the same

— Marti Burgess (@martiburgess) December 5, 2017

The British media giant was also criticised for executing the 'all brown people look the same' stereotype. Therefore, numerous people suggested that they take the necessary steps to promote diversity within BBC’s offices in order to prevent and avoid mistakes such as this in the future.

https://twitter.com/Lurganexile/status/937824763820544000

I'm really annoyed about the BBC Shashi Kapoor thing. DOES ANYONE GIVE A DAMN? If you do, please tweet the editor @paulroyall

— Aasmah Mir (@AasmahMir) December 4, 2017

Ultimately, news editor Paul Royall apologised for messing up.

#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

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