Lalluram desk. At the beginning of the month, actress and MP Kangana Ranaut announced that she and Javed Akhtar have resolved their defamation case through mediation. In his post, he praised Javed Akhtar and even said that he had agreed to write songs for his next direction project. Now Javed Akhtar’s wife Shabana Azmi disclosed in the case and said that unlike the reports of the mutual agreement, Javed Akhtar has won the case.
Shabana Azmi said with Bollywood Hungama, “She did not ask for any compensation, but asked her aunt in writing. The victory is by her and her lawyer Jai Bhardwaj.” He further said, “But I am surprised why the press showed it like a mutual agreement, but did not say that he was apologizing in writing and why he fought the case for four and a half years.”
According to the court report, Kangana Ranaut had said, “The statements made by me in the interviews of July 19, 2020 and subsequently were the results of misunderstandings. I withdraw all the statements given by me without any condition… and I promise not to do so in future. I apologize for the inconvenience to Shri Javed Akhtar, who is one of the most senior members of the film fraternity.” Javed Akhtar said, “In view of the statements made by Ms. Kangana Ranaut, I agree to withdraw the complaint…”
Explain that the legal battle between the two started in 2020, when the lyricist lodged a complaint that Ranaut has made derogatory statements against them in a television interview, which has allegedly damaged their reputation. After the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput in 2020, Kangana appeared for an interview on a news channel. In which he claimed that Akhtar asked him to apologize to co-star Hrithik Roshan, who filed a case against him in 2016, seeking a public dispute over a statement on his alleged relationship.
Javed Akhtar told the court that everything Kangana had said in the interview was a lie. Kangana later filed a counter -complaint against Akhtar in the same court for the alleged “forced recovery and criminal intimidation”. Ranaut claimed in his complaint that after his public dispute with the co-star, the lyricist called him and his sister Rangoli Chandel to his home with “malicious intentions and secret objectives” and then scored and threatened him criminally. In the last 4 years, there have been many hearing in the case and it attracted a lot of media attention.