India, April 8 -- Actor Siddharth Shaw played the character of Arun, a newlywed husband who rapes her wife, played by Prasanna Bisht, repeatedly after marriage, in the web series Chiraiya. He admits that the portrayal is bringing him a lot of hate, but he is enjoying that. "People want to put me in a blue drum, and I recently only got to know that reference. That is from the women's perspective," he says, referencing to the gruesome murder case in Meerut from March 2025 where a man's dismembered body was found sealed inside a blue plastic drum.

He adds, "From the men's perspective, the hate which I'm getting is mostly expletives which are coming up. And then there are these reels or videos or mails where people reach out and say that it ...