This year, with SRK away in Bulgaria for the shoot of his home production, Dilwale, and Salman busy with the promotions of his own production, Bajrangi Bhaijaan, no one was expecting any fireworks at the suburban five-star hotel on Sunday evening. But the celebratory mood quickly evaporated for the still photographers who were waiting to catch the red-carpet action.
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They had been herded into a barricade small enough for around 20 people which quickly filled up with more photographers, videographers and the electronic media, as news spread that Salman was expected with his entire family.
"At 7.20 pm, with all t he pushing and shoving going on, the barricade collapsed. Two photographers, Pradeep Das and Vinod Kumar Singh, are seriously injured and four others sustained minor injuries," informed Mirror photographer Satish Malavade, adding that the media were being treated like cattle."Baba Siddiqui had been intimated about the poor arrangements before the accident but he showed little interest. When the media began to leave, his publicist informed that they had their own photographer to cover the event. After this, the aggrieved lensers decided to boycott the event and went back en masse."
Not a single picture of Salman was clicked. He arrived soon after his father Salim Khan, brother-in law Atul Agnihotri and sister Alvira made their entrance and was accompanied by his Kick co-star Jacqueline Fernandez and actor Varun Dhawan. Aditya Pancholi and Zarina Wahab, whose son Sooraj, is being launched by Salman in the Hero remake, were also there, as were Salman's younger sister Arpita and h er husband, Aayush Sharma. But there were no photographers outside to click them so RJs and fans made do with selfie moments on their cell phones.
By 9 pm all the guests, including Kabir Khan and wife Mini Mathur, Zarine Khan, Daisy Shah, Sangeeta Bijlani, Dino Morea, Sushant Singh Rajput with girlfriend Ankita Lokhande, Pulkit Samrat, Gurmeet Choudhary and Sonu Sood, had left the venue, leaving Baba to enjoy the night with his politician friends.
When contacted, Baba Siddiqui did not wish to comment and asked Mirror to speak to his publicist.
This is not the first time the photographers have boycotted an event at which Salman was present. On July 11, 2014, at the launch of Devil, a special song for Kick, bouncers at the venue apparently misbehaved with some of the photographers.Salman intervened and announced that if anyone wanted to leave the venue, they were free to do so, adding that the paparazzi should maintain a certain distance.
But in November, Salma n personally invited photographers to Arpita's wedding reception party and the paparazzi called off the ban owing to the sweet gesture by the superstar. At the time, they had said that henceforth, they will capture Bhai at every event. But this time their fallout was not with Bhai but with the arrangements at the venue.
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