Actor Emraan Hashmi has spoken out about a comment he made a decade ago on Karan Johar’s chat show, Koffee with Karan. During a rapid-fire round of the show in 2014, Emraan called actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan “plastic”, which created a lot of controversy. In a recent interview with The Lallantop, Emraan expressed regret over his remark.
Asked directly if he regrets his comment about Aishwarya, Emraan readily replied, “I regret it. I always say I respect everyone I talked about.” He went on to explain his regret: “I regret it because it was disgusting. People have become very sensitive lately. People get angry about everything on social media. As for the show, we were playing a game, it was all a joke. It was take it sportily.”
Emraan compared the situation with today and highlighted how social media has changed the landscape. “Recently, Karan Johar himself admitted that rapid fire in the last season of the show was the most boring. It’s because the environment has changed completely. You can’t give answers like that anymore,” he said. He admitted that his comment was based on the competitive nature of the show: “At the time, I just wanted to win a basket and I ended up saying what I said.”
