‘Sunny Deol beat up Gunda director for inserting dad Dharmendra into a sex scene’: Dabangg director chickened out after remembering this story

It was Salman Khan who suggested approaching Vinod Khanna, whom Abhinav Kashyap met in his Malabar Hill house. “Sohail was the one who would do the money discussions with everybody,” Abhinav said, adding that he approached Dimple Kapadia in a similar manner. He said that the only person he batted for was Sonu Sood, who cut an imposing figure on screen. But, he said, Salman became ‘insecure’ of Sonu’s physique.

In a recent interview with SCREEN, Abhinav had lashed out at Salman and his family, alleging mistreatment. “Salman has never involved. He is not even interested in acting, and he hasn’t been since the last 25 years. He does a favour by turning up to work. He is more into the power of being a celebrity, but he is not interested in acting. He is a gunda (goon). I was not aware of this before Dabangg. Salman badtameez hai, ganda insaan hai (Salman is ill-mannered, he is a bad person),” he said. Abhinav went on to direct the Ranbir Kapoor-starrer Besharam, which flopped at the box office and earned poor reviews.

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In a 2017 mid-day article, the story of Sunny allegedly attacking Kanti Shah was explained. It was the 90s, and Dharmendra’s star had naturally faded. During this time, the veteran did a string of B-grade and C-grade movies, some of which were made by Kanti Shah, best known for Gunda. He called Dharmendra in to do a scene in which he’s having a heart attack, and later allegedly re-edited the scene to make it seem as if Dharmendra was having sex. “When the film first released in Punjab, what Dharam Paaji’s fans saw was the old man orgasming in bed with a naked woman from an X-rated movie super-imposed next to him,” the report read, adding, “(Sunny) called Kanti over to his office in Juhu’s Sunny Super Sound, under the pretext of a script narration, and gave him a dhulai with his ‘dhai kilo haath’ that I’m told still echoes in that fourth floor sound-proof room.”

Sunny Deol recently bounced back after more than a decade of disappointment with Gadar 2. He was last seen in the film Jaat, and will next appear in Rajkumar Santoshi’s Lahore: 1947, and then in Ramayana.