Iqbal Sharma vs Saif Ali Khan: Blame game
Salman supports Saif and says he wasn’t given enough time to prove his innocence.
MUMBAI:
Salman Khan, who is back in Mumbai after the shooting of Ek Tha Tiger in Cuba, came out in support of his fellow actor Saif Ali Khan on Friday, saying that media should have waited for his version and should have confirmed the facts before running what was carried on television.
“Even the press sounded like it was on Sharma’s side yesterday. They didn’t even bother to ask what happened to Saif. Did Saif get hit first or not? We should have waited for Saif to come out and say what he had to say,” Salman told reporters after he was asked to comment on the incident.
Saif Ali Khan was involved in a scuffle early on Wednesday at Wasabi, the Japanese restaurant at Taj Mahal Palace with South Africa-based Indian businessman Iqbal Sharma. According to Sharma, Saif called him an “idiot” for complaining about the actor’s loud conduct at the restaurant. He said he and his family had requested the restaurant manager to ask the actor and his friends — which included Kareena Kapoor, Amrita Arora and Malaika Arora Khan — to keep their voices down. Saif later rebutted that he was provoked by the businessman to do so.
Salman, on the other hand, was not ready to accept that Saif’s conduct was the only reason behind the brawl and kept repeating that there was another side to the story, which the media is not highlighting. “You don’t go to a restaurant to mourn. You go to have dinner and drinks. My family was there, everybody was there. (Sharma) may be right, but my point is that the media needs to find out the entire thing and then come on TV.”
Published in The Express Tribune, February 26th, 2012.
Salman Khan, who is back in Mumbai after the shooting of Ek Tha Tiger in Cuba, came out in support of his fellow actor Saif Ali Khan on Friday, saying that media should have waited for his version and should have confirmed the facts before running what was carried on television.
“Even the press sounded like it was on Sharma’s side yesterday. They didn’t even bother to ask what happened to Saif. Did Saif get hit first or not? We should have waited for Saif to come out and say what he had to say,” Salman told reporters after he was asked to comment on the incident.
Saif Ali Khan was involved in a scuffle early on Wednesday at Wasabi, the Japanese restaurant at Taj Mahal Palace with South Africa-based Indian businessman Iqbal Sharma. According to Sharma, Saif called him an “idiot” for complaining about the actor’s loud conduct at the restaurant. He said he and his family had requested the restaurant manager to ask the actor and his friends — which included Kareena Kapoor, Amrita Arora and Malaika Arora Khan — to keep their voices down. Saif later rebutted that he was provoked by the businessman to do so.
Salman, on the other hand, was not ready to accept that Saif’s conduct was the only reason behind the brawl and kept repeating that there was another side to the story, which the media is not highlighting. “You don’t go to a restaurant to mourn. You go to have dinner and drinks. My family was there, everybody was there. (Sharma) may be right, but my point is that the media needs to find out the entire thing and then come on TV.”
Published in The Express Tribune, February 26th, 2012.