Gippy agreed and travelled to meet the actor.

“When we met, we instantly connected because both of us love talking. Within five or ten minutes, we had become good friends. We finished the interview, had dinner together, and he personally dropped me back to my hotel.”

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The English message dilemma

The real challenge began after the meeting. “The next day, I was scheduled to fly back. As soon as I reached my hotel, I received a message from him. The entire message was in English. I read it and understood it, but I didn’t know how to write a proper reply.”

Gippy said he immediately called his manager for help.

“So I called my manager and woke him up. I told him, ‘I’m sending you a message. Please write a reply in English saying this, this and this.’ He sent it back to me, I read it, liked it and forwarded it to Aamir bhai.”

However, the problem didn’t end there. “About half an hour later, Aamir sent back an even longer reply. By then, my manager had gone back to sleep and wasn’t answering his phone. So I called a friend in Canada and got him to draft the next message.”

‘Kept getting others to write my replies to Aamir’

The actor admitted that the arrangement continued for quite some time.

“Aamir became a very good friend. For six to eight months, sometimes I was getting one person to write my replies and sometimes someone else.”

Eventually, Gippy decided to come clean.

“Once our friendship became really strong, I finally told him that I had been getting other people to write my messages. Now we communicate through voice notes. In fact, he sends voice notes too.”

A friendship built on humility

This is not the first time Gippy has spoken warmly about Aamir. During promotions for Carry On Jatta 3 in 2023, Aamir made an appearance at the film’s trailer launch. The actor later hosted the film’s cast and crew at his home.

Speaking to The Lallantop, Gippy had opened up about Aamir’s humility and hospitality, recalling how the actor makes it a point to personally see off his guests.

Gippy said, “That’s his style. I’ve never said this, but every time I’ve paid him a visit, he has come down to see me off. And 99% of the time, he does this barefoot. I keep telling him to wear some shoes, but he doesn’t seem to mind. This is at his house, but once I went to visit him at the Marriott in Chandigarh, and he insisted on coming down to see me off again.”

The Punjabi star went on to share another instance that left an impression on him.

Gippy continued, “There was some wedding function happening at the hotel, and there was a huge crowd because of it. I told him that there were too many people and that he shouldn’t come down, but he pointed out that they’d recognise me, so how does it matter if they recognise him as well.”