India's Got Latent's sixth episode, released September 6 with Rakhi Sawant and Ashneer Grover on the panel alongside Kushagra Srivastava and Balraj Ghai, produced the season's most-discussed clip yet — a flirty on-air exchange between Sawant and Grover that's since sparked genuine debate online about consent and whether the same moment would be received differently if the genders were reversed.
What actually happened between Rakhi and Ashneer on the show?
The episode opened with Samay Raina asking Rakhi Sawant whether she was familiar with Ashneer Grover. Sawant said she didn't know him directly but recognized his wife, Madhuri Jain Grover, from her appearance on Lock Upp 2. Grover then pushed back, accusing Sawant of body-shaming his wife by referencing a past comment where she'd described Madhuri's expression as a "duck face." Sawant defended herself by comparing Madhuri to actress Madhuri Dixit instead.
The exchange shifted later in the episode, after a contestant's act that Grover didn't particularly enjoy. Grover remarked, in effect, that Sawant wasn't so bad after all. Sawant replied with a line that's since become the clip's defining moment — "Just try me once" — and Grover responded by moving closer and agreeing, which drew a laugh from the studio audience. The full exchange was clipped and shared widely on X shortly after the episode released.
Why has this specific moment sparked a consent debate?
Reaction to the clip split fairly clearly along one line: some viewers found the exchange genuinely funny and consistent with the chaotic, no-filter energy the show has always traded on, with several online comments framing it as a return to the show's earlier, rawer form. Others pushed back harder, arguing that a similar advance from a male panelist toward a female contestant or panelist would likely draw a very different reaction — accusations of harassment, calls for an apology, and potentially real consequences — and that treating Sawant's version of the same dynamic as pure comedy reveals a real double standard in how consent and flirtation get judged based on gender.
That's a genuinely reasonable point on both sides of the conversation, and it's worth being clear that this wasn't a fringe reaction — it circulated widely enough, alongside the clip itself, to become as much a part of the episode's online footprint as the moment that triggered it. Whether the exchange reads as harmless banter between two consenting adults performing for a comedy show, or as a moment that deserves more scrutiny simply because it happened to run in the direction it did, is genuinely being argued out in public rather than settled — and that argument is arguably more interesting than the clip itself.
This isn't the first time a Latent panel exchange has produced this kind of split reaction rather than a unanimous one. The show's format practically invites it — pairing unfiltered personalities with each other and betting that the friction produces good television — and episode 6 is a clear example of that bet paying off in terms of attention, even as it reopens a real conversation about where the line sits between comedy and something that would be judged very differently outside a studio setting.
Do you need a membership to watch this episode?
Worth clarifying for anyone trying to catch up: episode 6 is a regular mainline Season 2 episode, not a members-only bonus or behind-the-scenes special, so it's free to watch on both platforms it released on. It's live on Samay Raina's YouTube channel with no channel membership required, and it's also available to stream on Netflix for anyone with an existing subscription. The Rs 59 membership fee only applies to the show's separate bonus-episode track, which we've covered in more detail elsewhere — this episode isn't part of that.
What was Samay Raina's own reaction to the episode?
In a lighter footnote to the episode's release, Raina posted on his Instagram stories that he was heading off on a two-week vacation, telling followers to enjoy the Rakhi Sawant episode without him around. Fans took it as a joke about timing his trip to coincide with one of the season's more unpredictable panel combinations, with several comments picking up on the idea that he'd deliberately left the country right as the episode went live. Whether that timing was actually deliberate or coincidental, it added a bit of self-aware humor to an episode that was already generating plenty of reaction on its own.
For more on how this season's panel combinations have played out, see our coverage of Orry's seat on the judging panel and Varun Dhawan's Netflix special appearance just two days before this episode released.