Experienced actor Manoj Kumar is not happy with the way he plays cheating in Farah Khan (Shah Rukh Khan’s film Om Shanti Om).
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Senior Hindi film actor Manoj Kumar died today in Mumbai at the age of 87. He is one of the smartest stars in the industry, known for his patriotic films and orchestrated nationalism and what suits the country on a philosophical level. Manoj Kumar is one of his most respected filmmakers of his generation, achieving critical and commercial success.
He is respected by the younger generation of Bollywood filmmakers, but there is a point in his life when he feels so angry about Farah Khan and Shah Rukh Khan. This is an incident related to the 2007 film Om Shanti Om.
Manoj Kumar is imitated in the film for his signature style that makes his face covered with palms. It is a widely replicated style for stand-up comedians and imitators throughout India and outside. In the movie, an actor who plays Manoj Kumar participates in an event where a guard fails to recognize him while covering his face. The character was driven away.
This did not go well for Manoj Kumar, who filed a defamation lawsuit against Om Shanti Om manufacturers Farah Khan and Shah Rukh Khan in 2008. But this hatred was put aside when Manoj Kumar was convinced by the manufacturer.
Problems surface when Manoj Kumar discovers that the scenes in the film are not removed as he promises. Manoj Kumar said in an interview with Zoom: “I feel cheated and feel sad. I’m anxious to know if they have deleted these scenes and laugh at me. I’m a person who trusts. I laugh at my legal actions at me when they (Farah Khan and Shah Rukh Khan) (Farah Khan and Shah Rukh Khan) (Farah Khan and Shah Rukh Khan) (Farah Khan and Shah Rukh Khan) (Farah Khan and Shah Rukh Khan) (Farah Khan and Shah Rukh Khan).
The controversy lasted for a while, but eventually disappeared from public memory. Later, according to the Hindustan Times, Manoj Kumar withdrew the complaint because he believed that “it failed to instill any sense of responsibility in Farah Khan and Shah Rukh Khan”.
But Farah managed to revise her relationship with Manoj Kumar a few years later.
