Ameesha Patel Talks About Bipasha Basu's 'Too Petite' Comment On 'Koffee With Karan' After 19 Years

Ameesha Patel talked about the time when Bipasha Basu and Lara Dutta passed mean comments for her on the 'Koffee With Karan' season 1.

By Ekta Chanana Last Updated: Jul 4, 2023 | 18:06:05 IST

Ameesha Patel is super busy promoting her much-awaited film, Gadar 2, opposite Sunny Deol. The actress has received a lot of love when she first portrayed the role of 'Sakina' in the 2001 blockbuster film, Gadar: Ek Prem Katha. Over the years, Ameesha had a stunning acting journey. However, she had her fair of controversy, and one of them was her catfight with Bipasha Basu and Lara Dutta. Recently, Ameesha finally addressed the years-old controversy, wherein Bipasha called her petite. 

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Ameesha Patel opened up about Bipasha Basu's mean comment for her on 'Koffee With Karan'

Since the first season, Koffee With Karan has been in the limelight for controversies and celebrities taking a dig at other celebrities, and calling it 'fun'. A similar thing happened with Bipasha Basu and Lara Dutta appeared on the show, and made mean comments about Ameesha Patel, which made the headlines. For the unversed, it all started when Ameesha made a comment that she would not have done Jism since her grandmother would not like it. In 2003, Bipasha candidly talked about the same and revealed that Ameesha would not have been able to carry out as she is 'too petite'. 

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Recently, Ameesha talked about it and shared that she is clueless why Lara and Bipasha said what they said. She added that she has always been cordial with Bipasha. She also revealed that Karan confronted her and asked her opinion on Bipasha's comment. To this, Ameesha said that she would choose not to react. Ameesha was quoted as saying:

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"So, Karan came to me and asked me in his typical Karan style ‘So Ameesha, you know, that Bipasha and Lara came on the show and said this about you on it. And what are you going to say when you come on the show next week?' And I said 'Nothing. I have nothing to say I'm gonna say no comment. Person has a view. They have a view I have none.' So he was like, ‘Oh, your typical Polish South Bombay manners'. I said, ‘Yeah, because that's me'."

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When Bipasha Basu called Ameesha Patel 'too small' 

Talking about the whole controversy, in the 2004 chat show, Bipasha shared that Ameesha didn't have the physical attribute to carry a role like Jism. She also added that Ameesha is too petite and too small. Bipasha also called Ameesha's entire frame wrong. She was quoted as saying: 

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"I would say first of all Ameesha doesn’t have the physical attributes to carry a role like Jism. It is a very honest (statement), I would not cast her to carry a Jism. You need to be a woman, like a total package, not just bodily but you have to have a very strong personality. I think she is too petite, too small to do that. You know, her whole frame is wrong. She would not fit the role."

What do you think of the whole controversy?

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