{"id":93521,"date":"2025-10-22T04:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T04:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/93521\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T04:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T04:06:09","slug":"much-like-her-stepmother-in-law-helen-abhinav-kashyap-accuses-arbaaz-khan-of-opposing-malaika-aroras-performance-in-munni-badnaam-hindi-movie-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/93521\/","title":{"rendered":"‘…much like her stepmother-in-law Helen’: Abhinav Kashyap accuses Arbaaz Khan of opposing Malaika Arora’s performance in Munni Badnaam | Hindi Movie News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"'...muchFilmmaker Abhinav Kashyap revealed Arbaaz Khan’s initial discomfort with Malaika Arora performing the hit item song ‘Munni Badnaam Hui,’ citing family conservatism. Despite Arbaaz’s reservations, Malaika, a strong independent woman, agreed to the song, which became a massive success. Salman Khan later responded to Kashyap’s claims, urging him to focus on his work. Abhinav Kashyap<\/a> recently spoke about Arbaaz Khan<\/a> being uncomfortable with his then-wife Malaika Arora<\/a> performing in the hit item song Munni Badnaam Hui in a new interview. Convincing Arbaaz to approveTalking to Bollywood Thikana, Abhinav said, \u201cThey were uncomfortable with Malaika\u2019s presentation in the song. They were worried it would look vulgar because it was a raunchy number. But I had assured them, Malaika had already carved her own identity in item songs, much like her stepmother-in-law Helen. I fought to have her in the song, but Arbaaz specifically didn\u2019t want her to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Family conservatism and disagreementsEarlier, in an interview with SCREEN, the filmmaker revealed that Arbaaz was initially not comfortable with Malaika Arora doing the iconic item song. He didn\u2019t want his wife to be called an \u2018item girl.\u2019 Abhinav also said that despite their cool image, Arbaaz and Salman come from a conservative Muslim family, and Malaika had her own disagreements with Salman over her outfits, as they preferred women to dress more modestly.Abhinav also mentioned that Malaika is a strong, independent woman who makes her own choices. She agreed to do the song, but it took some convincing for Arbaaz to approve. She assured him it was just a fun, family-friendly dance number\u2014and it went on to become a massive hit.He added that he chose Malaika Arora for ‘Munni Badnaam Hui’ because of her amazing dancing skills. Already famous for hits like ‘Chaiyyaa Chaiyyaa’ and ‘Hoth Rasiley,’ Malaika hadn\u2019t done many acting roles. Her dance talent and star power made her the perfect choice to carry the song and capture audience attention.Salman Khan responds to Abhinav\u2019s claimsMeanwhilem Salman Khan had recently addressed all of Abhinav’s claims against him and his family. He said, \u201cEk Dabangg insaan hai\u2026 sabke bare mein bolta hai. Maine pichle weekend kaha tha, kaam karo yaar, nobody\u2019s interested. Kaam mila kya bhai? Aise harkatein karne ke baad koi aapke saath kaam nahi karega. (There\u2019s one Dabangg man. He has dragged even Aamir into this along with me. Last weekend on Weekend Ka Vaar, I had said, \u2018Just focus on your work, yaar. Nobody\u2019s interested.\u2019 So I want to ask again. Have you got any work, brother? And after behaving like this, they\u2019ll never work with you.)”Elaborating further, he added, \u201cMujhe sirf yeh bura lagta hai ki apne aap ko destroy kar diya. Agar kisike parivar ke peeche padna hai, toh apne parivar ke peeche padho. Maa-baap se pyar karo, biwi-bachchon ka khayal rakho. Tum talented ho, achha likhte ho, ghalat raasta mat lo, wapas highway pe aa jao. (What really makes me sad is that you\u2019ve destroyed yourself. If you want to go after someone\u2019s family, go after your own family. Love your brother, love your parents, take care of your wife and children. You\u2019re talented, you write well. Don\u2019t go down the wrong path, come back to the highway.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Filmmaker Abhinav Kashyap revealed Arbaaz Khan’s initial discomfort with Malaika Arora performing the hit item song ‘Munni Badnaam…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[10998,27225,69661,61297,430,17411,156,32576,27221,61829,111,139,69,7831,69660],"class_list":{"0":"post-93521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-abhinav-kashyap","9":"tag-arbaaz-khan","10":"tag-arbaaz-khan-malaika-arora","11":"tag-arhaan-khan","12":"tag-celebrities","13":"tag-dabangg","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-helen","16":"tag-malaika-arora","17":"tag-munni-badnaam-hui","18":"tag-new-zealand","19":"tag-newzealand","20":"tag-nz","21":"tag-salman-khan","22":"tag-salman-khan-helen"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}