Fri. Mar 29th, 2024
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Angered over a dialogue on his father and the iconic singer Mohammad Rafi in Karan Johar’s latest film ‘Ae Dil Hai Mushkil’, Shahid Rafi asks for a public apology from Karan. He also goes on to say that he didn’t expect this from Karan and has asked him to delete the sequence from the movie.

In the recently released romantic-drama, Ranbir Kapoor’s character, Ayan, tells Anushka Sharma (playing Alizeh), that many people have told him that his voice is like Rafi, to which, Sharma says, “Mohammad Rafi? Woh gaate kam, rote zyada the na?” Shahid says he did not expect a filmmaker like Johar to pass such a line under his watch and feels the damage has already been done.

“Karan Johar is a great filmmaker, I don’t know how he used this line. He should have thought about it as he is the director. I did not expect this from Karan. I am ashamed of him, he is supposed to be a good director. I saw the clipping. I haven’t seen the film, so let me see the film first then I will think what to do. But a public apology (from Johar) is appreciated, and also removal of the scene.

Although the damage is done. Let’s see what he (Karan) can do from his side,” Shahid Rafi says.

 

“I am deeply hurt about the dialogue. I came to know that the dialogue doesn’t take the story backward or forward. People have often mentioned or spoken about my father in films or in general in good way, then why all of a sudden this dialogue and this controversy.”

Shahid was also angered by Niranjan Iyengar, the dialogue writer for the movie. “It (the dialogue) is not good. My father is a versatile singer, he has sung love songs, sad songs, bhajan etc. Niranjan wrote the dialogue and it seems he doesn’t know anything about my father. What image (of Rafi) is he trying to put in front of the youth? Even after more than 36 years, people still remember my father, he is a legend. So many shows take place in his memory. He has huge fan following. He (Niranjan) doesn’t know what he is doing.”

 

By Sirisha

Dancer, Writer, Book addict and a hopeless romantic :-)

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