CONTROVERSY: Shark Tank India gets called out for POOR BACKGROUND RESEARCH after a pitch SCAM gets EXPOSED!

MUMBAI: Shark Tank India is a business reality television series.

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The show is the Indian franchise of the American show Shark Tank and features entrepreneurs making business presentations to a panel of investors or sharks. The show Shark Tank India has a huge fan following. The show aired from December 20, 2021 to February 4, 2022.

The show Shark Tank India has a huge fan following.

Some of the pitches from the show even went viral on social media for the innovative ideas and skills showcased by the entrepreneurs. The Singh family demonstrated a special ‘scientific magic’ technique through which kids can recognize, watch, and even read despite a tightly placed blindfold on their eyes. The founder of this company, Gurnandan Singh and his wife and co-founder Rajwinder Kaur made an attempt to raise 50 lakhs in exchange of 5% equity in their company.

As a part of the presentation, they tied a cotton-filled blindfold around the eyes of their two daughters and made them guess a bunch of objects placed in a bowl. Even though the Sharks found the technique fascinating, none of them invested in it for the sole reason that it will not be profitable in the future.

The family was seen promoting their brand called Head and Heart which has now been exposed as an active scam that started in Japan.

In the most recent development, a YouTube channel named Science is Dope has exposed this company and the technique used by them to mislead their customers. The YouTuber highlighted through a live example that blindfolded people can actually see through a small gap which is between their nose and the cotton pad.

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Even though none of the Shark Tank India investors put money into this pitch, the show did provide a platform for the scamsters to publicize their product. In November last year, the same method was used by a guest on Kaun Banega Crorepati and the host Amitabh Bachchan was amongst the many people that were stunned with this Japanese ‘skill’.

The KBC episode was pulled down when Dr Narendra Nayak wrote a letter to the network explaining how misleading the whole concept is. He tried contacting the Shark Tank India team as well but there was no response from their end. In the current scenario, the show is being called out for poor background research and an unresponsive attitude towards the complaint.

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