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While it’s common for movie stars to perform at private functions and weddings for fat sums of cash, it’s still a contentious issue in the film industry. Some actors embrace this side of the business, while others are more critical of it. In a joint appearance on Koffee with Karan in 2018, host Karan Johar traded stories about performing at weddings with actors Ranveer Singh and Akshay Kumar.
He said, “This man is the last person to leave weddings. The wedding is over, the bride and groom want to go for their ‘suhagraat’, but they can’t because Ranveer is still dancing. And by the time he’s ready to leave at 5 am, they’re too tired to do anything. Living with this man is… Hats off to Deepika.” Karan then recalled his own story about Ranveer at one such event, and said that the actor was greeting everybody as if he’d known them for years, and when Karan asked him if he did, Ranveer said that he’d never met them in his life.
Ranveer said, “Who taught me this? Sir,” pointing at Akshay. “Band Baaja has come out, this is my first year. He was headlining a wedding, me and Anushka were the opening act. The wedding was over, and this was wedding season, so every weekend there was a wedding. And sir was headlining a wedding the following weekend as well. He says, ‘Beta, agle hafte aa raha hai?’ I said, ‘Nahi sir, mera kuch yeh woh hai’. He said, ‘Yeh dekh, I don’t like to see money getting wasted. Shaadi hai, main naach raha hoon; birthday hai, main naach raha hoon; mundan hai, bachcha ro raha hai, main naach raha hoon’.”
Ranveer also joked about being an ‘entertainer for hire’. In October 2019, he’d posted a picture of himself on Instagram with the caption, “Shaadi Season is here! Entertainer for Hire. 🕺🏿 Available for events, wedding, budday party, mundan.”
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