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"The line up of dancers that choreographer Ahmed Khan had for me made me go weak in the knees. Would you be believe, he wanted a renowned non-dancer like yours truly to do intricate steps for the title song with three of the best dancers in the film industry Govinda, Javed and Mimoh.

"Trust me, they are super dancers on par with John Travolta and Michael Jackson. And I'm rightly known for my two left feet. To ask a non-dancer to match steps with them is not just cruel, it's a joke," Suniel told IANS.

Initially, Suniel refused to take the plunge.

"To make myself look ridiculous in my own production? Come on! I told Ahmed Khan there're better ways for me to commit suicide. But he asked me to just trust him. So there I was a day after Diwali trusting my choreographer instead of my better judgement, matching steps with Govinda, Javed and Mimoh."

But Suniel says he enjoyed himself doing the song.

"I just let myself go. I know I'm a terrible dancer. But I wasn't pretending otherwise."

Zoom TV chose him as one of the 10 worst dancers of the film industry.

Commenting on that, he said: "I was ecstatic. I rang up my daughter and told her to quickly put on the telly, her dad had been chosen among the best dancers of the country. She thought I had lost it. 'You and best dancer?'

"But honestly I was kicked because they had named me as among the most clumsy dancers along with Sanjay Dutt, Sunny Deol and Abhishek Bachchan. And for some strange reason they had also named Mr. Amitabh Bachchan among the worst dancers. So god was with me."

A strongly-worded letter from the Credit Service Providers Association (CSPA) exhorting the EMI producer Suniel Shetty against addressing Sanjay Dutt’s character in the film EMI not to use the term ‘Bhai’ has Suniel perplexed and adamant. Writes the Association’s Executive Secretary, G.B Singh, “Members of the Association are of the view (sic.) that our profession is shown in a very bad taste in the film EMI and will have very adverse effect on the viewers. The Association also objects to the actors using ‘indecent language.’ Suniel Shetty is outraged. “What indecent language are they talking about? Sanjay Dutt’s Sattarbhai is a cute lovable character, not some aggressive ogre meant to terrorise people. Suniel said he has no intention of giving into this arm-twisting tactics. Neither will he show the film to any member of the Association. “EMI has been given a clean chit by the censors. Why do we suddenly have all these censors beyond the censor board policing our cinema? Let them watch the film when it’s released and decide what we have done.”

Real-life loan collector Sandeep Arora on whom Sanjay Dutt’s character is based has his own take on the matter. “There’s nothing wrong in calling the character Sattarbhai. It’s a cool ‘Bhai’, meaning ‘Brother’ and not any other kind of Bhai.