Arshad Warsi addresses social media backlash following his ‘joker’ comment about Prabhas, says he’ll never criticise a film or actor again

For the unversed, Arshad, portion talking to YouTuber Samdish Bhatia, had said that Telugu superstar Prabhas’ quality successful Kalki was a caricature, and that sparked outrage. He had said, “Prabhas, I’m truly sad. Why was helium made to look similar a joker? Why? I privation to spot a Mad Max. I privation to spot Mel Gibson. What person you made of it? Why bash they bash specified things? I’ll ne'er understand.” However, Warsi had praised Amitabh Bachchan’s show successful the aforesaid film.

This ‘joker’ remark was misconstrued by galore arsenic a flimsy against their matinee idol, with immoderate feeling that helium created the contention to beforehand his film, and Warsi recovered himself successful the mediate of a nasty speech of comments that adjacent had the usually genial Nani telephone it arsenic a “call for attention”. On this Warsi said, “There are times erstwhile random people, to make content, manufacture a batch of specified controversies. When this happened, galore felt I said it due to the fact that Bandaa Singh was releasing. But I didn’t person immoderate thought erstwhile the movie would beryllium released. You tin ne'er program controversies oregon adjacent its results.”

Arshad Warsi volition beryllium seen successful Bandaa Singh Choudhry, a movie based connected communal riots successful Punjab aft the 1971 India-Pakistan war. The movie is backed by Salman Khan’s member Arbaaz Khan. The film, besides starring Meher Vij and Sachin Negi, is acceptable to beryllium released successful cinema halls connected October 25.