Kiccha Sudeep reflects on Twitter spat with Ajay Devgn, says ‘it wasn’t about ego’: ‘If I wanted to be arrogant…’

He told Bollywood Hungama, “Ajay sir and me are two individuals who have seen the industry. He’s seen more than me. We are grown-ups, we understand what is what. We were talking about black and white, and we didn’t want to settle with the grey. A lot of people took the topic, but nobody tagged us. They just wanted the topic, and they took it politically all over the place. And that is a zone where we both don’t belong.”

He continued, “He had a question to me, and I respected that, and I wanted to answer. Though that came in Hindi… I understood Hindi, but I responded in English so that everybody understands what I was trying to say. Of course, Ajay sir got a different interpretation of the whole thing, but that’s fair enough. But I also had to make a point, the point being that… It wasn’t about ego. If I wanted to provoke or be arrogant, I would’ve been arrogant from the first tweet. I didn’t have to wait for my third one. But what would have happened if I had sent the text in Kannada? This is a very honest point, which I think even he respected.”

Sudeep said that he wasn’t worried or concerned when the topic became political, and bowed out of any further discussions because he felt that as far as both him and Ajay were concerned, the topic was over. But he chose to respond when PM Narendra Modi commented on the issue. He said that he was talking on behalf of everybody, not just Kannadigas. “I am happy that the topic I started, was ended by the leader of the country,” he concluded.

Sudeep will next be seen in the 3D action-adventure film Vikrant Rona. Ajay was last seen in the box office disappointment Runway 34.