Mumbai: Former zonal director of Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), Sameer Wankhede, who had arrested Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan in connection with a drug case, threw shade on the actor in an interview.
Sameer Wankhede, who appeared in the latest episode of The Gaurav Thakur Show, refused to answer questions related to SRK stating that he doesn’t want to make anyone famous by taking their name.
“Dekhiye mein kisi ka naam leke kisi ko famous nahi karna chahta hoon. Jo chats leak vagairah hein woh honourable High Court ke saame hain toh uspe koi tippani nahi dena chahunga main (I don’t want to take names and make anyone famous. Whatever the chat leaks happened the case is with the High Court so I cannot comment on that),” he said.
When asked about the dialogue ‘Bete ko haath lagane se pehle baap se baat kar (Before touching my son, talk to the father), from SRK’s ‘Jawan’, which was apparently meant for him, Sameer said that it’s a cheap and third-rate dialogue and is against our Indian ethos.
“Aur ye joh dialogue hain jo apne kaha hain… main movies dekhta nahi hoon, jyada nahi dekhta movies, so yeh jo words hain… ’baap’, ‘beta’ ye bahot hi cheap aur third-rate words lagte hain mujhe. Humare bharatiye sanskriti main aise words istemaal nahi karte. Toh ye road-side dialogues hain and I don’t expect myself ki ye level pe jaake main ye road-side dialogues ka jawaab doon (And this dialogue which you mentioned, words like ‘baap’ and ‘beta’ sound very cheap and third-rate according to me. In Indian culture we do not use these words. I cannot be expected to go down to that level and respond to them)!”
Shah Rukh’s son Aryan Khan was arrested by the NCB team headed by Sameer Wankhede on October 2021 for allegedly doing recreational drugs at a party on Cordelia cruise. NCB had charged him under laws “related to possession, consumption and sale of illegal substances.”
However, Aryan was later given clean chit and released due to lack of concrete evidence.
In 2023, CBI registered a corruption case against Wankhede and four others and in connection with the Cordelia cruise drug bust case.
On work front, Shah Rukh was last seen in ‘Dunki’ and will be next seen in ‘King.’
Aryan Khan is all set to make his directorial debut with Netflix next year.
