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Ashutosh and Sajid Fight Video The Screen Awards held at the Bandra-Kurla Complex on Wednesday night will be remembered for an ugly public spat, akin to the Salman-SRK fight last year. At least that was at a private party, the guests were all friends, alcohol was flowing freely, the mood was reckless. Such things happen at parties. But at an award function, it's unheard of. In the presence of the entire film fraternity and media, Ashutosh Gowariker and Sajid Khan had a war of words. A fuming Sajid Khan says,
"Ashutosh Gowariker is a very dear and old friend of mine and he of all
people should understand that Sajid Khan is an entertainer and it is his
job to entertain audiences. I work for the channels and have been entertaining
audiences and hosting awards for the last 10 years. If the channels repeat
me, it's because audiences expect this kind of entertainment not just in
India but worldwide!
There's a buzz that some filmmakers including Gowariker are planning to ban his shows. Sajid says, "For me, my viewer is the ultimate. He has made me and only my viewer will break me! No Ashutosh Gowariker in this world can ban Sajid Khan. At every show I make fun of myself first even yesterday, I made fun of Heyy Babyy! not once but three times. At the end the day it's TV, which like films is a source of entertainment.” "After every show I host, I get hundreds of calls and SMSes from the film industry saying how much they liked it, and that happened yesterday too! I'll never be apologetic about my work. The day I need to be, I will apologise to my audience. Let the viewer decide who they want to see on stage at an awards function Ashutosh Gowariker or Sajid Khan?" The fight was triggered off a comment by Sajid on Ashutosh's hero Harman. When Gowariker later came on stage he voiced his displeasure at the jokes and the fact that certain techni-cians weren't allowed to speak. When Sajid told him that the jokes were given by the organisers, the director asked him to shut up. Sajid snapped 'kisika baap bhi mujhe shut up nahi bol sakta!' Farah, who was not on stage at the time, later told the audience, "I love films more than anybody else and I do truly believe that we are family and friends and family can joke with each other. We shouldn't take ourselves so seriously." Ashutosh's outburst came as a complete shocker to Farah. She felt Ashu should have told off both Sajid and her back stage instead of making a public tamasha. and Speech of Akshay Kumar in Screen Awards 2009 - Video Priyanka's
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We totally agree with Ashutosh Gowariker, when he asked Sajid Khan 2 shut up. A Sajid's Khan film or talent cant be compared 2 the work done by Ashutosh... or recent film makers like Neeraj Pande... Anurag kashyap... and many more. We need 2 condemn this cheap toilet humour..." Starting Wednesday morning, many people in the film industry recieved the same message from unknown numbers. In the evening, Arjun got the same message from Bijon. The actor called and reprimanded him for sending such messages. Bijon retorted that he was sitting with Ashutosh and that he asked him to send the message. Rampal advised him not to get involved in matters he didn't know about." Though Arjun Rampal was unavailable for comment, Bijon Dasgupta says, "It's true that Arjun called me and nicely asked me to let it all go and not get involved. But Ashu didn't ask me to forward any message." He adds, "The matter has ended as Sajid apologised on national TV on Wednesday night." A source close to the Khans insists no apology by Sajid had taken place. "Sajid on Night Out (NDTV) said that Ashu and he have been friends for many years. At the end Sajid said that
sometimes sentiments may get hurt and that year after year channels hire
him for his humour and if things do go wrong and he hurts someone then
he's the first to apologise. Then he looked at the camera and said, 'Ashu,
I hope you're watching this. I love you and I know you love me!' that's
all Sajid said." That's an olive branch from Sajid. Will Ashu accept?
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