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    Who is Iqbal Meer Sharma?

    Iqbal Meer Sharma is not a name that you would readily recognise. But after the tiff he had with Bollywood star Saif Ali Khan yesterday at a restaurant in south Mumbai that may no longer be true.

    The former Deputy Director General of South Africa's Department of Trade and Industry, Iqbal Meer Sharma is currently the chief executive officer of Trade and Investment South Africa (TISA).

    The South African businessman of Indian origin was allegedly punched by Chhote Nawab Saif Ali Khan at the Japanese restaurant Wasabi at south Mumbai's Taj Mahal Palace and Tower hotel, while Sharma and his family were dining.

    Sharma was allegedly at the receiving end of the blows from Saif Ali Khan and his coterie. The South African businessman alleges that Saif was angered because of the multiple requests that Sharma made, through the service staff, asking the actor and his friends to lower their voices and allow Sharma and his family to enjoy their meal in peace.

    In an interview with NDTV, Sharma narrates the events leading up to his final altercation with Saif, which eventually left him with a broken nose, and his father-in-law with a bruised face.

    Saif's victim speaks out

     
    • Patriot  •  Riyadh, Saudi Arabia  •  3 months ago
      Is this the kind of behavior we expect from a Padmashree awardee?! Govt of India should be ashamed to give away awards to such people!
      • Arya 3 months ago
        Government of India is run by Congress. Congress are Goondas and Pimps. This crook Siaf gets awards because his mommy runs the show in the cinema board.
      • Patriot 3 months ago
        Yes Arya, you are 100% right!
      • Amit 3 months ago
        Yo Arya........ sis...go slow.... Congress will charge you of corruption charges as they did with Anna Hazare..... Its completely illegal to freely say anything here in India.......calm down.......
    • Arya  •  3 months ago
      This Siaf is uncivilized Goonda. What gives him the right to behave like a cheap crook and misbehave with decent people?
      • IDIOT 3 months ago
        Agreed. He has spoilt the name of his mother - Sharmila
      • arora 3 months ago
        People should not give them any importance to the so called 'celebrities'. Since they have no etiquette they need not be called 'celebrities'. What they are? They are just ordinary people. Rather worse than that.
      • M 3 months ago
        He has spoiled the name of his maternal grand father: Shri Ravindranath Tagore
    • Yogendra  •  Mumbai, Maharashtra  •  3 months ago
      Filmi celebrities are a pampered lot. They lose their head easily by sheer arrogance. Teach them a lesson by boycotting them
      • kennedy 3 months ago
        well said friend; the so called stars are no way deserve the stardom status. They attain the status out of the money of poor and daily wage labours who throng the dirty meaningless movies they create. Simply boycott the crap vulgar movies.
      • Amit 3 months ago
        dude boycott the entire bollywood...thats the only solution... If anyone creates a documentry on "the true colors of bollywood" then it will shut down like a goddammn computer controlled assembly line in no time.. Bollywood is that sick & filthy...
      • kennedy 3 months ago
        AMIT, Atleast people like you should campaign for boycott of especially movies from bollywood. Of course i am doing this because they are producing crap for the past many years and becoming stars. I never allow my family tune to any recent bollywood movie.
    • An independent  •  3 months ago
      Not only Saif is now the "chota nawab" (whatever that means) but also a Bollywood Star!!

      So he believes he has every right to be obnoxious in public places!! Who can stop a "chota Nawab" from being a pain in the butt??

      Last year, I was visiting Copenhagen, Helsinki and Stockholm with my cousin who has unfortunately a loud voice. When we were dining in a small restaurant in Copenhagen, my cousing was excitedly talking about the Palace we just visited. The place was not crowded but a couple sitting at another table was possibly annoyed by the loud voice and the husband approached us with a request to tone down.

      We apologised, quickly finished our meal in silence and left the place.

      That is the civilised thing to do.

      Apparently Saif, despite all that money and growing up in an affluent family, has not learnt how to be civilised !!! But that is the problem with most of the nouveau riche of India
      • crusader 3 months ago
        I agree with u and hope some day someone thrashes all these bollywood pseudos!!!
      • Radhakrishna 3 months ago
        i appreciate your writing. and you are 100% right
    • anup  •  Pune, Maharashtra  •  3 months ago
      This guy has a bad track record of brushes with law and then shamelessly says that he is innocent .. there should be a system of taking back prestigious awards from such hoodlums..
    • Abhijit  •  Newark, United States  •  3 months ago
      Stories of spoilt brats of India...
    • BIGMOUTH  •  Amritsar, Punjab  •  3 months ago
      Shame, Kareena . Whats special in the doggy ? Ask Amrita . Ask Randhir , he is ashamed of you .
    • jinke mari  •  3 months ago
      These fellows should be role models to the younger generation. His parents Mrs. Sharmila Tagore and the great tiger Pataudi are persons of such Dignity and their kids are just the opposite spoilt to the core.
    • Brijesh S  •  3 months ago
      Kareena Kapoor JI, ab apko ko sochna chahiye ke, Paisa hi sab kuch nahi hota
    • Surendar  •  Chandigarh, Chandigarh  •  3 months ago
      Lets face it like this.....What is Saif on his own.....A characterless person as he has divorced his wife with two children.........in a socially unacceptable relationship with Karena.......Poaching case......other cases and above all a useless govt conferred Padamashri Award upon him.......This rascal should be taken to task and should be sent behind bars.........
    • SURINDER  •  New Delhi, Delhi  •  3 months ago
      The guilty must be punished by immediate trial thru a fast track court since it is connected with a SA official.
    • TUGLAK  •  3 months ago
      it is not the first time he did it..mind you..As many are rightly advising..kareena should rethink getting wedded to this idiot or should be ready for another plastic surgery for her nose and getting it insured.
      • uma 3 months ago
        she is marrying him for the money and status
      • chandra 3 months ago
        she is just giving bad name to Late Shri Prithvi Raj Kapoor,
      • A Yahoo! User 3 months ago
        She Herself is not a woman. I suspect she must have had more plastic surgeries in Bangkok to change gender from male to female!! She don't have the natural grace and delicateness of a woman. Just look how she wears `pallu' between the two puppies in ra-one song. I will not be surprised if she is caught scratching her balls (which I am sure she has in there) in public, just like any 'man' would do it so innocently and naturally, without thinking twice!!
    • sujju  •  Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh  •  3 months ago
      It seems our Nawag is thinking that he is a real Nawab and does what ever he wants, Nawab means a person who gets lots of respect from others. It seems he is not a Nawab. He behaved with Mr.Sharma in such a way that the whole nation feels ashamed. Mr.Saif, I have a very simple formula for all your celebrities, never think that you are great, it is his grace (god's ) that we all have been blessed with all this fortune. If you misuse it, then you have to go through so many awkward situations. For example look at the great dictators who ruled the countries for more than 3 decades and how they have been thrown out of their power and killed on the streets like dogs. If you compare yourself with those dictators , what is your position? with this position, you are so proud that you will go and hit an innocent person and old lady. what are you thinking of yourselves? Shame on you
    • PRASHANT  •  New Delhi, Delhi  •  3 months ago
      Lets Boycott his next film Agent Vinod, that will ensure the investors in the movie lose money, which will ensure that his worth in Film circles will Fall and so will his market price, that will lead to less inlow of money for him, Karina will thus run away and Mr.Padmasri will get a head over his shoulders
    • guntur s  •  Bangalore, Karnataka  •  3 months ago
      Iam glad that Mr.Sharma had shown his place...so what if saif has money and fame but he is also as normal as normal is a human being. It is we the public who made him a star and when we can raise the star to the heights we can even drop them in the dust....saif should be punished......shame on him...
    • Ravi  •  New Delhi, Delhi  •  3 months ago
      Kareena should think hunderd times before finally going for this arrogant loose tempered man.If he could ditch one woman, he could do the same with her anytime.
    • Jassi  •  Amritsar, Punjab  •  3 months ago
      saifu apni aukaat dikha hi gya, nwaab hoke bhi third class attitude
    • omsingh suhag  •  Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh  •  3 months ago
      when this gentleman(saif) was given national award then Shiv Sena reacted by saying that now any tapori can be given national award.his(saif) recent act is a certificate that he is really a tapori and does not deserve a national award.he is there(the place he is to day) because of his mother and because he is a muslim and i congratulate kareena kapoor that she got a nice person in her life and get ready herself for a bloody nose in her future married life with this tapori.
    • ramram  •  Chennai, Tamil Nadu  •  3 months ago
      All these stars think that they can get away with even murders. Most of these brats do not know how to behave in public. Society should disown them.
    • ravi  •  Chennai, Tamil Nadu  •  3 months ago
      Saif ali khan is not safe ali khan as of now............