NEW DELHI: Viral videos of Amazon Alexa 'censorship' are now trending on social media sites and this strange filter on Alexa is censoring certain words of famous Bollywood music. A classic Hindi song 'Abhi Na Jao Chhod Kar', is censored by Amazon Alexa when played through Saavn music application. The melodious duet by Asha Bhosle and Mohammad Rafi from the movie Hum Dono has been mixed with a similar sounding Hindi abusive slang.


On Twitter, a user named Rohit Bharti, shared a video in which he instructed Alexa to play the song and heard a beep when Alexa said that it is playing the song 'Abhi Na Jao C**d Kar'. After which Bharti took the problem to Twitter. The user also shared videos of him playing songs titles carrying the word Chhod but the result remained the same.




To this, the official Twitter handle of Saavn responded by saying “We're certain this is correct on Saavn, and not exactly sure where the filtering is coming from. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ If there's any way we can help, we'd love to! Do let us know the step-by-step navigation of how you're playing the song and through which devices.” In another tweet, they said “it was just Alexa being naughty, par ab iss baat ko "ch**d" aur yeh playlist sunn.”


Here is how Twitter users who put Alexa through the goofed up censorship test-