A year after India’s Got Latent was forced off the internet and into the courts, Samay Raina’s comedy talent show has returned for a second season carrying an unusually large legal team. The credited roster of 11 lawyers, drawn from a Mumbai media-and-entertainment firm, has become one of the most discussed parts of the relaunch.
Samay Raina’s India’s Got Latent has come back for a second season fronted not by a new format or a marquee guest but by an 11-member legal team, credited in the closing slate of a show that spent much of the past year tangled in first information reports and Supreme Court proceedings. The season premiered on Netflix before its episodes were uploaded to YouTube on June 20, 2026, and it was the length of the legal credits, rather than the comedy, that drew the loudest reaction online.
Viewers who had tuned in for the contestants and celebrity panellists found themselves dwelling instead on the rolling credits, where the legal section ran to roughly a dozen names at a point when most production departments listed only one or two. The detail spread quickly across social media, where many users joked that the legal department now appeared larger than several other parts of the production combined.
The credits name Hirani & Associates as the show’s legal counsel, a Mumbai-based practice that works across intellectual property, media and entertainment law and litigation advisory. The firm has been retained to manage the production’s content clearance and liability, the kind of work that for a show distributed simultaneously on Netflix and YouTube extends well beyond responding to disputes once they arise.
Leading the team is the firm’s managing partner, Lavin Hirani, who has more than 15 years in the media and entertainment sector and has advised producers, studios, broadcasters and celebrities on both transactional and contentious matters. His practice spans content acquisition, production and distribution agreements, copyright transactions, script and content clearances, intellectual-property ownership reviews, talent contracts, endorsements and media disputes.
The credited roster also includes Advocates Anjana Menon as principal associate, Varun Gopala Krishnan as senior associate, and Karisma Shah, Prachiti Joshi, Niharika Tiwari, Ishan Puranaik, Suhavi Arya, Shrawasti Verma, Clint Thattil, Shreya Divyanshika Kumar and Siri Gudupati, several of whom work in digital entertainment production, intellectual property, trademarks and technology policy.
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What a team of that size does on a digital production is less visible than the credits that announce it, since much of the work happens before an episode airs. It runs to reviewing scripts for legal risk, clearing intellectual-property rights, drafting contestant and talent agreements, advising on platform compliance, handling licensing and advertising arrangements, and assessing exposure to claims of obscenity, defamation, invasion of privacy and copyright infringement, with the added layer that Netflix and YouTube carry different content standards the show must satisfy at once.
The scale of that legal backing is difficult to read in isolation from what happened to the first season. In February 2025, remarks made by podcaster Ranveer Allahbadia, known online as BeerBiceps, during an episode of India’s Got Latent triggered widespread outrage, after which multiple FIRs were registered in different states against Allahbadia, Raina and others associated with the programme.
The proceedings that followed ran through 2025 and reached the Supreme Court, which heard several petitions connected to the controversy as questions were raised about obscenity, online content standards and the limits of free speech for digital creators. The scrutiny eventually led to all episodes of the first season being taken down.
Among those proceedings was a petition by the Cure SMA India Foundation, in which the Court had taken strong exception to Raina’s alleged mockery of the cost of treatment for spinal muscular atrophy, observing that ridicule of that kind could not pass as humour or satire when it demeaned persons with disabilities. Raina appeared before the Court in July 2025, tendered an unconditional apology in August 2025, and in November 2025 was directed, along with Vipul Goyal, Balraj Ghai, Sonali Thakker and Nishant Tanwar, to use their platforms to raise funds for the timely treatment of persons with disabilities, including those with SMA.
Neither Raina nor the producers have publicly described the expanded legal team as a direct answer to that year of litigation, and the connection remains a matter of timing rather than stated intent. What the credits make plain is that the show has returned with a markedly more structured approach to legal review than the one that preceded its first season.
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