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Old Kareena-Bipasha Slap Row Revived in Podcast Discussion
A podcast has revived the long-running 2000s controversy involving Kareena Kapoor Khan and Bipasha Basu during Ajnabee. Reports alleged that Kapoor slapped Basu after a dispute involving stylist Vikram Phadnis, and called…
The Story in Brief
A podcast has revived the long-running 2000s controversy involving Kareena Kapoor Khan and Bipasha Basu during Ajnabee. Reports alleged that Kapoor slapped Basu after a dispute involving stylist Vikram Phadnis, and called her a derogatory name. NDTV reports that veteran journalist Aastha Atray attributed the era’s different gossip culture to the absence of social media, with magazines such as Stardust and Filmfare carrying celebrity reports. Basu told Filmfare in 2001 that the dispute had been exaggerated and involved the designer, not her. Kapoor denied the alleged insult in a 2002 interview. The actresses appeared to reconcile by 2008.
The Indian Opinion
The lazy version is that celebrity privilege alone kept the alleged incident out of public scrutiny. Another is that old magazine gossip was automatically more credible than today’s anonymous posts. Neither follows from the record. The available accounts contain denials, competing explanations and no confirmed proof of a slap. The useful test is simple: can any contemporaneous, on-record source establish what happened, rather than recycle a decades-old rumour?
Source: ndtv.com
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