Mumbai: During the shoot of Comedy Nights Bachao, Akshay Kumar lost his cool and pushed one of
the stand-up comedians after he took inappropriate digs at Housefull 3 co-stars Lisa Haydon and Jacqueline Fernandez.
The show started off well but soon the jokes became too
derogatory to take. Akshay and Riteish Deshmukh had gotten too uncomfortable
and what flipped them was comedian Siddharth Jadhav addressing Lisa as a “Black
African” and as someone who looks like a Kangaroo from Australia.
Akshay flew into a rage at this point and immediately stepped
forward in a bid to stop the comedian. What he obviously intended to be a push
turned into a shove and the comedian went flying and landed a little further on
the stage in full view of the audience. Lisa and Jacqueline had already welled
up by then and if Akshay had not intervened, at least one of them would have
broken down.
A unit hand on the sets said that the 48-year-old actor was
uncomfortable with the derogatory lines used against the women and wanted to
point that out much earlier. “But when it went out of hand, he couldn't control
himself. He was upset that the comedians were aware that Lisa wasn’t too well
versed in Hindi and wouldn’t even understand the few lines that the guys
uttered. So, he thought it was all the more unfair that one would make fun of a
person who didn't even know the language well,” adds the unit member.
Later, the star apparently went through the script and
suggested a few changes.
However, this isn’t the first time that an actress has been
attacked for not having a strong command over Hindi. Katrina Kaif, while
promoting Jab Tak Hai Jaan, was told
by a reporter: “You are from Bollywood not Hollywood.” Shah Rukh Khan came to
her rescue, sternly asking the journalist not to question her on the language
she speaks.
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