I actually watched the video again afterwards, and on a personal opinion, though that's entirely mine, it did seem rude to me. He said "it's not like we're his assistants or something"... I know it's not any harsh feelings, but there was something amiss in the way he said it, and sorry it really didn't go well with me. And in the first place, the reason why the reporter asked him about Jai was because he didn't even mention Jai in the first place when asked between whom he finds competition. So he thought Jai was no competition? The guy who's shown the most brilliant choreography together with Dharmesh? The guy who he thought deserved to stay in DID more than him?
The whole of it just seems weird to me... But then the whole thing might just have been blown out of proportion too... :)