‘Shah Rukh Khan is a commercial person; he will use you, remove anyone in his path to success’: Abhijeet Bhattacharya

Mentioning that, though he tried to resolve the personal differences between them a couple of times, the singer noted that his efforts went in vain. He also added that SRK is a very commercial person who will use others and remove anyone from his path to success.

“However, labelling him as anti-national is very wrong. Many have attempted to do so, but there is no bigger nationalist than Shah Rukh Khan. Consider the films he has made — Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani, Swades, Asoka et al. How can such allegations be made against him, especially when he has always promoted Hindu culture in his movies” Bhattacharya wondered. “Among the Khans, Shah Rukh Khan is the only nationalist. Others don’t really have anything to do with the nation,” he asserted.

However, in 2016, he had lashed out at SRK, Salman Khan, Aamir Khan and Karan Johar, among others, for employing Pakistani artistes in their films after the Uri terrorist attack. Abhijeet, through a series of tweets, criticised Karan, the Bhatts and the superstar Khans for providing opportunities to Pakistani artistes such as Fawad Khan, Mawra Hocane, Atif Aslam, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan and Ghulam Ali. Taking it a step further, he insisted that these ‘anti-national’ filmmakers should be taught a lesson.

Having started his career by singing alongside Asha Bhosle in a song composed by RD Burman for the Bengali movie Aparupa (1982), Bhattacharya went on to lend his voice to over 1,000 films.