Farah Khan has put an end to rumours of a fallout between her and actor Deepika Padukone. It was reported earlier that the filmmaker had taken a dig at Deepika’s eight-hour workday policy in front of her cook, Dilip. Later, several reports stated that Farah had unfollowed Deepika and her husband, actor Ranveer Singh, on Instagram.

However, in an interview with Pinkvilla, the 60-year-old clarified this, saying, “To begin with, we were not following each other earlier, too! We had made a pact during the shoot for the film Happy New Year (2014) that we wouldn’t communicate on Instagram and would instead directly message or call each other. Also, my eight-hour comment wasn’t a dig. It was to make Dilip say that he will now also work eight hours when he actually works just for two hours!”

Farah also talked about how the trend of turning “anything into a controversy has to stop”: “It can genuinely cause problems between people; thankfully, I pick up the phone and call them before it gets worse! But people need to stop doing this.”