Kutle Khan’s team has reacted to the backlash the singer faced after Shilpa Rao ’s performance was cut short at the 10th anniversary edition of the Bollywood Music Project (BMP) in Mumbai on October 24. The team has claimed that Shilpa interrupted Kutle Khan’s performance to address the audience, adding that the singer’s set had already been shortened by the organisers.
Speaking about the incident, Kutle Khan’s manager, Sharad Sharma, told News18, “The festival team had allotted each artist 15-20 minutes onstage. He was only given 10 minutes. But they chopped Khan saab’s performance time further. But we were okay with it since they paid us. Shilpa finished her performance and left the stage. “He stopped his performance for her. He kept telling him ki start karo, start karo. We should instead be upset about his performance being disrupted by Shilpa. She should’ve thanked everyone at the end of her own performance. She went backstage and then came back when Khan saab was halfway through his set,” he added.
Once Khan saab began his set, she interrupted his performance and said that she would want to thank everyone. Thereafter, the festival organiser, Deepak Chaudhary, came to us and told Khan saab to sing Dil Pe Zakham Khate Hain.
