Emraan Hashmi, who has been bussing promoting his web series ‘Showtime’, recently shared that he regrets calling Aishwarya Rai Bachchan ‘plastic’ years back. The incident happened during the rapid-fire round in Karan Johar’s show Koffee with Karan season 4, where he called the actress plastic. Since then the actor faced a lot of backlash for the statement. He recently regretted making such a remark on the diva. 

In an interview with The Lallantop, Emraan Hashmi was asked about the same. To which he replied, “I regret it. I keep saying that I have utmost respect for everyone I spoke about. I regret it because it was distasteful. Lately, people have become very sensitive. People get mad at everything on social media. In terms of the show, we were playing a game, it was all in jest. It was supposed to be taken sportingly. There are many such games in the show. Earlier, people weren’t this sensitive.”

“Recently, Karan Johar himself confessed that the rapid fire round in the latest season of the show was the most boring. It’s because now, the environment has completely changed. You can’t give such answers anymore. At that time, I just wanted to win the hamper and I ended up saying what I said,” he added. 

Emraan Hashmi’s showtime is currently streaming on Disney Plus Hotstar. The show also starred Mahima Makwana, Mouni Roy, Shriya Saran, Rajeev Khandelwal, Vishal Vashishtha, Vijay Raaz, Neeraj Madhav and Lillete Dubey in pivotal roles. 

Hashmi will be also seen in OG which also features Pawan Kalyan, Priyanka Mohan, Sriya Reddy, Arjun Das, Shaan Kakkar, Harish Uthaman, Prakash Raj, Abhimanyu Singh and Ajay Ghosh in key roles. The movie is set to be released in theatres in 2025. 

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