Rajat Bedi, known for his role as Raj Saxena in Koi Mil Gaya and recently seen in The Ba**ds of Bollywood, has addressed a recent controversy. He accused veteran actor Mukesh Khanna of twisting his old comments about moving to Canada, which went viral. Bedi says his words were taken out of context for attention and clarified that there’s no bad blood with director Rakesh Roshan despite renewed rumours.
Clarifying his bond with Rakesh Roshan
In conversation with Siddharth Kannan, Rajat said, “I share a good bond with Rakesh Roshan sir. He is the most helpful director. He would enact the scene to explain how it should look on the screen. Only an actor-director can do. As far as my Canada migration statement is concerned, it was blown away because of Mukesh Khanna.”
Statement taken out of context
Elaborating further, he added, “In an interview, I told him that I moved to Canada after Koi Mil Gaya’s release. But he used my statement to generate views. He stated that I moved to Canada after being sidelined in the promotions of Koi Mil Gaya. That was very wrong. How can you do it just to get hits and views on your video? A week before the interview came out, I was with Rakesh ji.”
Disappointment during Koi Mil Gaya promotions
In 2023 interview with the Shaktimaan actor, Bedi had said, “My biggest disappointment was that when Koi Mil Gaya released, they completely cut me out from the publicity/promotions. I was very disappointed because as an actor, one has expectations. I felt terrible.”“I had a lot of scenes in the film with Preity Zinta and Hrithik Roshan. But after the final cut, many of those were edited out,” he added.On the work front, he was recently seen in Aryan Khan‘s debut directorial, The Ba***ds of Bollywood. It also starred Bobby Deol, Mona Singh, Lakshya, Sahher Bambba, Anya Singh and others.
