Controversy's favourite child, Salman Khan has somehow managed to walk right into the minds of the media with yet another story. The internet woke up to an apology letter issued to Salman Khan, on Tuesday, by none other than singer Arijit Singh.
The 29 year old issued a letter pleading Salman to retain a version of a song in his upcoming 'Sultan', also apologising for unintentionally insulting the 50-year old during an awards function in 2014. “I apologise here in front of everyone but please it is a request. Please do not remove the song that I sang for you in sultan. You want anyone else to sing this song, absolutely fine but keep a version at least.”
While many of the singer's fans came out in support for him, Singh deleted the post later. For whatever reason, a song sung by Arijit has been dropped from the film. After deleting the original post, he put up another status message about the issue. “I hope he gets my letter through someway.
Ps. This whole thing will backfire at me I know. Prayers..”
While the actor was unavailable for comment, one of his close friends Nikhil Dwivedi tried to clear the air and said Salman never asked the makers to remove the song. “I m privy &Salman nt once interfered in d choice or askd 2remove any singer. He only refused 2meet Arijit. His wish!” his tweet read. A source close to the film unit also rubbished Arijit's claims and said that the singer is clearly mistaken. The source said, “Salman isn't petty. Why would he ask for a song to be removed from the film when he had shot with the version recorded by Arijit? Music directors usually record a song with various artistes and the best one makes it to the album. So, in case of Sultan, it was purely producer Aditya Chopra's and Vishal-Shekhar's call.”
