Even Varun wouldn’t do 17 films with David Dhawan like I did: Govinda

One of the most loved actor-director duo of Bollywood who have charmed the audience with their magic is none other than Govinda and David Dhawan. After delivering as many as 17 movies, most of them being comedy, and it's quiet evident that they share a great rapport off-screen too. But after their last movie, Do Knot Disturb in 2009, they never collaborated again to tickle their fans’ funnybones. 

For all those who were wondering what went wrong with them, the 55-year-old actor opened about it all in the recent episode of Rajat Sharma’s Aap Ki Adalat. On Sunday, Chi Chi openly talked about how he hasn’t spoken to the director in years. When asked about the entire saga, Govinda revealed, 

David will be in the position to ask me this question only when his son does as many as 17 films with him. I don’t think even his son will do 17 movies with him, because he is David Dhawan’s son and he’s educated. I didn’t even know the meaning of doing that many movies with an actor. I was only told that Sanjay Dutt told he was Punjabi, and he’s coming. That time I used to provide work to a lot of Punjabis with me. So he came, and I liked him and thought, I could come up with a lot of Hit films with him. I did not even treat my relatives the way I treated him. Even my brother is a director but I haven’t done 17 films with him.

- Govinda on Rajat Sharma’s Aap Ki Adalat

The Raja Babu actor also revealed that David stopped working with him and told people that he doesn’t want to work with Govinda anymore. The actor also went on to further reveal that how much it hurt him and that he never for once heard back from the film-maker again.

I don’t know what he was expecting but when I narrated him the concept of Chashme Badoor, he started doing it with Rishi Kapoor, without even keeping me in the loop. When my secretary was in conversation with him, I had changed a little as I left politics. I had asked my secretary to keep the phone on speaker while talking to him, and that’s when I heard, ‘Chi Chi has started questioning way too much. I don’t want to work with him anymore. Ask him to do any small role that he gets.' It hurt me so much that I decided I wouldn’t work with him for the next 4-5 months. However, I called him after that time span and asked him if I could make a guest appearance in his movie but he never rang me back. I’m revealing all this after so many years because I had no option and I feel that he’s influenced, this is not the real him, because if my doors close for someone, how am I Govinda then?

- Govinda on Rajat Sharma’s Aap Ki Adalat

Well now that Govinda has revealed what wrong between the duo, and how the director broke his heart; we will just have to wait and see if David Dhawan or his son Varun Dhawan, for that matter, will react to the accusations and how!

Stay tuned for more updates!

Credits: Koimoi