Esha Gupta breaks silence on fallout with Sajid Khan

Esha Gupta has yet addressed the long-standing rumours of a bitter fallout with filmmaker Sajid Khan during the making of Humshakals. The histrion shared that the dynamic betwixt them soured unexpectedly.

“Vibes yet acceptable par kharaab ho chuke the,” she revealed, admitting she hadn’t foreseen the concern escalating the mode it did.A confrontation that changed everythingAccording to Esha, the turning constituent came during a heated altercation with the director. “I had a fight. Sajid Khan and I were not astatine each connected the aforesaid page, and we ended up having a due fight,” she told Siddharth Kannan. What triggered her the astir was being verbally abused by him.

“See, I don’t similar radical abusing me. You should ever dainty radical the mode you privation them to dainty you. It’s that simple. Unhone mujhe gaali di… phir maine bhi di.

”While she refrained from diving into specifics, Esha hinted that Sajid’s outburst came from a spot of frustration. “Kuch log baat karne se pehle sochte nahi hai... frustrated hote hai,” she said, adding, “I don’t privation to speech astir that due to the fact that I’ve moved connected from it.”

She walked disconnected set, but stayed successful the filmDespite the tense exchange, Esha continued shooting for the film, but not earlier taking a steadfast stand. “I walked retired of the set. I went home. I didn’t stay. I had besides made up my caput to exit the film,” she recalled. However, it was the film’s shaper who archetypal apologised to her, adjacent earlier Sajid, prompting her to return.Still, the task didn’t permission a bully taste. When the squad yet watched Humshakals, Esha said, “We knew it was going to beryllium a immense disaster.”

‘He ne'er tried thing inappropriate with me’Years later, Sajid Khan’s sanction emerged successful the #MeToo movement, with respective women accusing him of intersexual misconduct. But Esha clarified she was ne'er a unfortunate of that nature. “No, that mode I’ll springiness him credit,” she said. In fact, a paper had wrongly added her sanction to Sajid’s alleged dating history. “I made definite they apologized to maine for that.”She continued, “I’ve ne'er said thing successful narration to MeToo astir Sajid. In fact, erstwhile those allegations started coming out, idiosyncratic adjacent added my sanction to the database of radical who accused him. I said, ‘No.’ Dekhiye, jahan jisne jo galti ki hai woh bolo. Like I’m openly saying present that helium abused me. But Sajid ne'er tried immoderate of those [sexual misconduct] things with me. So I volition not accidental that astir him.”