From a future superstar, to internally the industry’s most hated actor.. Vivek Oberoi career was filled with loads of potential, unfortunately it is his relationship with Aishwarya Rai and the infamous press conference that ruined what should have been a fantastic career in Bollywood.
In Farah Khan’s chat show Vivek revealed details on the incident and a lot more. Some very interesting excerpts, read on.
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I got this letter from the organizers of an award function that I’d won the award for “Company”..and then I was told that I shouldn’t attend it and later that award was given to someone else…I said I had the letter! I was fed up…I had only one goal in life, act in films but when this incident (press conference against Salman Khan) happened, people were told not to work with me. People started asking me to return the signing amounts saying that they can’t do the film with me because they were facing pressure from here and there.
What I did was very wrong but I didn’t kill anyone, neither did I harm anyone, I did not hurt anyone’s personal life but I was made to suffer a lot. Till today there are friends of yours and mine who say, ‘We’d love to work with you but we can’t!’ I am still dealing with that after having apologized. But more than Salman, I’m sad about Sohail because he was my best friend and he had even fought for me with Salman. He had told me, ‘I will sort it out, don’t worry!’ I felt bad that I had let a friend down. Till date, Sohail has not been able to forgive me…I speak to Arbaaz but I understand that I let down Sohail the most!”
Farah Khan – What exactly happened? There are some who know some part of it and others the rest… you please tell us?”
There was too much happening, threats were coming, indirect pressure tactics were being used and I was tired of it.. I tried to phone and even go and meet (Salman) and settle it. My dad was also out of town then… Had been there, he would have rightly advised me.. Lekin uss waqt kuch log the, jo mere kareeb the aur mujhe ‘rai’ de rahein the.”
Farah Khan – That’s a good choice of word.. ‘rai’ (referring to Aishwarya Rai)
Sujhav de rahein the, mashavara de rahein the.. ‘rai’ nahin de rahein the!” (Everyone laughs) People don’t know this.. I’d suddenly become an out caste from being this lovable boy. There were a few who called up saying that I did the right thing but they also soon disappeared. Suddenly there was no one to back me, and those who had asked me to do this also walked away saying that this is no longer their responsibility.
Farah – Yes there was such a huge backlash against you.
I was like… but you’re the one who asked me to say all this? There were many such eye-openers then. This was just the beginning.. it just continued.. I was ridiculed at every award function, made fun of…….
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Everyone makes mistakes, but the price that Vivek has had to pay is something that would haunt him for the rest of his life. Ash moved on and married Abhishek, she is now a Bachchan bahu. Salman’s career is still going great guns, he has enough people backing him even with back to back disasters. Vivek very unfortunately has suffered the most, for no fault of his really, if you go by his ‘rai’ comments..
What do you think? Comments below.
Lol. ash is fake , she liek to use men to make things go her way, you knowwhat happened, because salman khan didn’t give her the time , she was looking for and because salman khan was busy wit hhis fiilms, also ashwariya mother didn’t like salman khan and was telling her all kind of things to leave salman khan, i think her family was the big factor of these two breaking up. vivket was new and didn’t understand what was going on, he was too stupid for the mature and manipulative ashwariya, ashwariya got both vivekt and salman khan good, because seh was miss world.
i don’t think salman khan ever called vivek, I think he is lyiing about taht part, because vivek never openingly admits that salman khan called him, he just said that he was getting threats. I THINK ASHWAIRYA just used both of these guys and she knew how to do it because both of them was falling for her , and she was pretending taht she is a good indian girl, but look at her attitude when she goes to western shows and events, she try to act and behave like a hollywood actress, when seh went to cannas, deepika wore a sari and everyone loved off deepika, then ashwairya wore a sari just to get some attention, because no bdoy was really liking her style …
salman is a great great person having a pure heart. he always help others especially when someone is in difficult sitution. this is committed all the actors and co-stars of salman khan. he always take the blame of others on him. long live salman you r always the best of the best. Aish is the most unfortunate person in this world that she isnt having a friend like salman and salman is the most fortunate that such kind of lady(aish) isnt in his life who always runs behind money and popularity. vivek is an idiot and having third class personality.whatever is hapening to him it is good. salman you are the best.