Better not talk about 'upbringing': Award winning filmmaker Jaideep Varma slams Saif Ali Khan in a Facebook post
Saif Ali Khan's act at IIFA 2017 where he along with Karan Johar and Varun Dhawan invited ire for him. After criticism, Saif Ali Khan wrote an open letter explaining what he felt about the entire episode and drew reference with genes. While Saif was slammed for his letter, seems his troubles are far from her. Jaideep Varma, a National Award winning filmmaker, took to Facebook to share a letter he wrote to Saif and slammed the actor for not keeping his word.
According to Jaideep, Saig had approached him in 2003 to write a script for a feature film. Jaideep claimed he did not want to write it, but Saif insisted. A convinced Jaideep then wrote the script, spending days on it, claimed his Facebook post. But on completion when he tried to get in touch with Saif, he did not get any response. Jaideep also claimed once Saif picked up the phone, promised he would revert but never did.
Talking about the possible scenarios, Jaideep wrote that either Saif would have been busy or he just lied to him. Jaideep also slammed him for talking about upbringing on more than one occasion and then not being decent enough to return his calls.
Here is the Facebook post of Jaideep:
Attached is a letter I sent Saif Ali Khan by registered post about 14 years ago that I just can't help sharing on the occasion of his spectacularly asinine "open letter" published in the DNA yesterday (linked in the first comment).
He basically makes a case for his superior genes, and no, it is not dope that made him say that (as some people are suggesting), but that same "upbringing" he is ostensibly so proud of (his sisters do seem to have got all the brains and class in the family though). The irony here is that Saif has never ever displayed his father's grace or pioneering intelligence or his mother's talent, so actually Saif makes for a terrible example of "eugenics" (sic) himself.
In another time, Saif would have been been written about as the half-wit king in the chapter on dispossessed Maharajas in "Freedom At Midnight". He could only have survived, indeed been celebrated, in Bollywood (from where the rest of country no doubt appears to be gossip paparazzi to him). He is everything that is quintessentially obnoxious about Bollywood (despite its occasional notable exceptions) - stupid, uncultured, phoney and yet, highly entitled. Good to see him drop the mask once in a while.
Jaideep's Facebook post is a response to Saif's open letter in which he spoke about genes and nepotism. Jaideep who won National Award in 2011 for his documentary Leaving Home in the Best Arts/Cultural Film category, clearly did not mince his words. We wonder what Saif has to say about these allegations.
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