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Subhash K Jha (DNA; July 11, 2016)

While releasing the poster of Dangal, Aamir Khan shot himself in the foot by making a comment on how he felt he looked like a waiter when compared with his other Khan colleagues Salman and Shah Rukh. Ironically, the careless utterance came right after Aamir chastened Salman Khan for his rape analogy to describe the wrestling scenes in Sultan. Now the trolls are taking on ‘Dangal’ Khan instead.

However, Aamir’s ‘waiter’ remark is not innocuous, according to a source from the team that produced Rangeela. Aamir has “a thing about waiters” from the time he did a scene with a waiter. And the actor who played the waiter simply stole the show from Aamir, thereby creating a permanent rift between Aamir and director Ram Gopal Varma.

A well-informed source from the unit spilled the beans. “The big fall-out between Ramu and Aamir happened because of a waiter. It was a sequence in a 5-star hotel where Aamir, playing the tapori, Munna takes Mili (Urmila Matondkar) out for a meal. The waiter who takes his orders can barely conceal his contempt for the street-smart unsophisticated tapori. It was a smartly-written scene and Rajiv Mehta who played the waiter was a scene-stealer. Ramu offended Aamir by saying in an interview that Mehta who played the waiter was better than Aamir in the scene. Aamir never spoke to RGV after that.” We aren’t suggesting that Aamir has an animosity against waiters since the time the ‘waiter’ stole the thunder from Munna. But certain incidents in life have a way of coming back to us.