Actor Vivek Oberoi took to social media to wish Abhishek Bachchan on his next film, The Big Bull. Sharing the film's first poster, Vivek expressed, "Congratulations team TheBigBull! This looks amazing! Wishing the super talented team @kookievgulati @juniorbachchan @ajaydevgn @anandpandit63 @KumarMangat and the entire crew all the very best! Hope you take the bull by the horns! Much love."
While Abhishek is playing the lead in the film, it is produced by Ajay Devgn. This is the first collaboration of Abhishek and Ajay after they featured together in Rohit Shetty's Bol Bachchan.
This likewise signals a thaw among Vivek and Abhishek. The two were seen hugging each other at a felicitation occasion for badminton star PV Sindhu a couple of days sooner. Their hug came just about four months after Vivek shared a 'tasteless' image about Abhishek's wife and Bollywood actor Aishwarya Rai.
The image was isolated in three boards which demonstrated pictures of Aishwarya with him, another with Salman and a third with her husband Abhishek and daughter Aaradhya. The subtitles for every one of the three pictures read, 'opinion poll', 'exit poll' and 'result', separately. The image was initially shared by another person on Twitter, however, Vivek lifted it up, stating, "Haha! Creative! No politics here just life!"
Vivek is the ex of Aishwarya. The couple dated in the mid-2000s and cooperated in Kyun Ho Gaya Na.
Bollywood celebs and fans the termed the meme 'disgusting and classless'. The National Commission of Women additionally found the image "misogynistic". While Vivek was proud in regards to the image at first, he later apologized for it. "Sometimes what appears to be funny and harmless at first glance to one, may not be so to others.
I have spent the last 10 years empowering more than 2000 underprivileged girls, I can't even think of being disrespectful to any woman ever," he wrote as an apology, adding, "Even if one woman is offended by my reply to the meme, it calls for remedial action. Apologies, tweet deleted."
