For the unversed, Sameer Wankhede was a part of the search team in 2021, which arrested SRK’s son Aryan Khan.

Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB)’s former zonal director Sameer Wankhede has reacted to Shah Rukh Khan’s ‘bete ko haath’ jibe, which he used in his last year’s blockbuster Jawan.

For the unversed, Sameer was a part of the search team in 2021, which arrested SRK’s son Aryan Khan.

In a recent interview, Wankhede was asked about Shah Rukh Khan’s dialogue ‘Bete ko haath lagane se pehle baap se baat kar’ (Before touching my son, talk to the father) from Jawan was a dig at him.

While he didn’t prefer to react to the controversy, he called it ‘cheap’ and said this kind of gesture is not a part of Indian culture.

“Dekhiye mein kisi ka naam leke kisi ko famous nahi karna chahta hoon. Jo chats leak vagairah hein woh honourable High Court ke saame hain toh uspe koi tippani nahi dena chahunga main (I don’t want to take names and make anyone famous. Whatever the chat leaks happened the case is with the High Court so I cannot comment on that),” he said on The Gaurav Thakur Show.

He added, “Aur ye joh dialogue hain jo apne kaha hain… main movies dekhta nahi hoon, jyada nahi dekhta movies, so yeh jo words hain… ’baap’, ‘beta’ ye bahot hi cheap aur third-rate words lagte hain mujhe. Humare bharatiye sanskriti main aise words istemaal nahi karte. Toh ye road-side dialogues hain and I don’t expect myself ki ye level pe jaake main ye road-side dialogues ka jawaab doon (And this dialogue which you mentioned, words like ‘baap’ and ‘beta’ sound very cheap and third-rate according to me. In Indian culture we do not use these words. I cannot be expected to go down to that level and respond to them)!”