Excerpts from an interview with Khalid Mahomed...
I left ToI because it wasn't the same, and I wasn't cut out for the [Filmfare] awards. They were death. Nine years. I would give all the credit [for the award] to [group president] Pradeep Guha, while I was the Kathakali dancer there, going mad. The last year that I was there, in 2002, I had an accident [before the awards]. It happened because I went to invite Raakhee, my driver was upset that it was late, and boom [I had an accident]. I had to go through surgery and my arm was in a cast. My colleagues asked me to come for the function. What I had to do was cueing-this one is coming in, so that one had to be there. It all had to be politically right.
Q What happened at the function?
A Salman Khan came up to me and said, I'm going to break your other arm', because he was going at Aishwarya Rai [Mohamed, in his role as editor, had stopped Khan from going up to Rai]. Her brother and everyone had walked off and I had to handle it. It was Rishi [Kapoor] who actually pulled him aside. Salman then told me, Maroonga.' It was horrible.''
http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/art-culture/the-weariness-of-khalid-mohamed
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