Sidharth Malhotra on clash between PadMan and Aiyaary: For us, our lif

Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Padmaavat has
affected the release schedules of other films.
Earlier, Akshay Kumar's PadMan and Sidharth
Malhotra's Aiyaary were scheduled to
release on January 25 and then the latter
got pushed to February 9. Two days back,
Akshay also moved his film with Aiyaary.
When asked Sidharth about it, he told a
leading daily, "For us, our life is back to
square one. We thought we were being
gracious enough and moving forward for
an easy and solo release so that more
people can see our film. It was also more of
a production call and rightfully so because
the numbers are affected in a way. But we
were never shying away from a clash, it was
purely to avoid three films coming on
January 26."
"And I think there's an immense amount of
love from Pad Man team who just want to
latch on to any date that we come on and
they are just not letting go (laughs). So,
again, we are pretty happy and confident of
our film. Two films will come on a particular
date so there's not much that we can do.
Now, people will have two films to watch.
Let's see," Sid added.
Earlier, he had said that clashes at box office
don't affect equations. But is that really
possible in Bollywood where relationships
are so fragile? He told the daily, "I won't say
that every relationship in the industry is easy
to maintain or grows with time, but there
are exceptions to the cases. It's also very
situational. Relationships in the industry are
very fragile, I agree with you. But it's a
personality thing it's also about what you
want to put on line, and what that
friendship means to you. I think there's a
very distinct line between friendship and
business."
"Anyone in this industry will give priority to
work first unless they are family. And
rightfully so, that's the way the world works
and should work. We are all here to do good
work and business. So, I do understand it.
Over the years, there's a sense of maturity as
well, to be prepared for these situations and
maintain relationships, and also to know to
what degree can they be extended to," Sid
said and signed off.
CREDITS: DNA.

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sidharth sounds so articulate here and loved his response. I know none of this was fair to team Aiyari. Mr deshbhakt was being generous towards a big movie and at the same time gave you guys the middle finger. Good luck and hope Aiyaari wins the clash

I agree. Why is Padmaavat been given so much importance that everything if being disturbed for it? I hope this time SLB gets a taste of his own medicine and the movie BOMBS.