Sajid Khan: People Bashed Me Unnecessarily After Humshakals

Sajid Khan’s Humshakals, the multi-starrer film, failed disastrously at the box office despite having the best-suited star cast. This was Sajid’s second failure after Himmatwala. Since then the filmmaker has been trolled by not only audiences but also by the film fraternity at  several award functions and other occasions. Sajid thinks that people have been bashing him unnecessarily. “After 'Humshakals', the Sajid Khan bashing which followed, that was a little unnecessary. Genuinely”, he said.

“But I wasn't like 'I'll show everybody', no, I have made fun of film industry for 20 years on TV so that much is justified. For 20 years I did that- this film is flop, that song is stolen, but I used to do that in jest. 'Humshakals' wasn't that big a flop. It did a business of 65 crore... With me, people were reviewing me and not my films, which is okay”, he said.

“People think I am arrogant, I don't think so. I cannot be arrogant at all... I am basically a lower middle class person by heart. I think I was very rude. I was making statements for the sake of making one. '100 crore? No, my film will do 200 crore, it can never flop. I used to make those statements without realising it's going to come back to me someday. I thought, take it (criticism), enjoy it, they (people) will forget after six months. But if you make statements, they will come back”, he added.

The filmmaker was rumoured to be dating Jacqueline Fernandez in the past. Saying that being single is a stress buster, Sajid said, “I became single last year, so that is also a very big stress buster... I'll never ever put anything bad about a woman in public or speak negative about a woman. If anybody will ask about my ex, or exes, I will just smile. I'll never say anything negative because I think that's what being a gentleman is”. 

Source: mid-day.com