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An inebriated Ronit Roy goofed up at an awards ceremony recently

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Kavita Shyam

Ronit Roy

At a recent awards ceremony, actor Ronit Roy provided enough drama to last an entire evening. After guzzling down several mugs of beer at the cocktail preceding the event, a sloshed Ronit cut quite a silly picture of himself.

Although the cocktail party lasted for barely half an hour, Ronit made most of it by gulping down whatever drinks came his way. "As soon as Ronit came to the awards ceremony, he headed straight for the bar. He drank a lot," says an eye-witness. Ronit was seen hanging around with Sanjit Bedi.

Not just that, he was seen sneaking in a pint-sized beer bottle inside the auditorium (drinks are prohibited inside the auditorium). To keep it secure from fellow actors' gaze he had tucked it away in the back pocket of his jeans. However, we caught sight of the neck of bottle that was peeping out. Our source says that he kept taking swigs from that bottle while the award ceremony was going on.

The inebriated actor did not stop there. He went up to the stage and ended up making a fool of himself on national television (hopefully, parts of this interesting footage will not be chopped during the telecast). While giving an award to Gauri Pradhan, Ronit mistakenly addressed Gauri as his sister from Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi. Gauri, in her customary curt manner, corrected him saying that she played his bahu not sister. High that he was, we're sure Ronit couldn't have cared less.

A source present at the awards ceremony says, "Ronit goofed up on stage by calling Gauri Pradhan his sister. Gauri quickly corrected him. Ronit was behaving weirdly, he was laughing hysterically. He was walking in and out (to drink) of the auditorium every few minutes. In between he stopped to pose for photographers every now and then. He was screaming at the top of his voice. It was obvious that he wasn't in his senses."

When we contacted Ronit, all he said was, "Not at all. I had a good time. It was a fun evening."Actor Akashdeep Saigal said, "Many people were in high spirits and were seen having a good time. Almost everybody was seen drinking before the awards ceremony."

For the uninitiated, this is not an isolated incident of Ronit's drunken behavior. The actor is known for his fondness for alcohol and often drinks till he drops. That's when he breaks into uncontrollable laughter, and generally loses his sense of decorum.