A widely circulated dialogue from SRK’s 2023 hit Jawan has now been responded to by Sameer Wankhede, the former zonal director of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), notorious for arresting Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan in the highly publicized drug case in 2021.The fans took the statement given by Khan’s character- “Bete ko haath lagane se pehle baap se baat kar”- as an attack on Wankhede.
Wankhede said in The Gaurav Thakur Show podcast, where he appeared as a guest, that the talk is “cheap” and “roadside.” “I do not watch too many films, but I think the usage of words such as ‘baap’ and ‘beta’ by the dialogue is really bad. That is not how we communicate in Indian culture. I will not respond to such roadside statements as it is a disrespectful statement. Wankhede said, “I do not want to name anyone and give them unnecessary fame,” excluding Shah Rukh Khan and Aryan Khan.
For background, in October 2021, Wankhede and his squad raided the Cordelia Cruise ship off the coast of Mumbai after receiving a tip regarding drug use on board, and they apprehended Aryan Khan. Aryan was jailed for a month before being released on bail. But in 2023, Wankhede and four others were booked by the CBI in a corruption case, alleging a conspiracy to extort ₹25 crore from one of the cruise ship passengers’ families in exchange for dropping charges.
On a different note, Aryan Khan is now gearing up for his Bollywood debut, not as an actor but as a filmmaker. His first directorial project is going to release on Netflix in 2025.
