Javed Akhtar has been suing Kangana Ranaut for defamation ever since he filed a lawsuit against her in 2020.
Javed Akhtar, a lyricist and poet, described in court what precisely happened the night he met Kangana Ranaut at his house. Kangana, he claimed, understood why she had been called and had ‘politely’ accepted to go with her sister.
According to a report from India Today, Javed claimed before the suburban Mumbai court in Andheri on Tuesday that he was unaware of Kangana at the time. Dr. Ramesh Agrawal, a friend they both had, wanted to counsel Kangana on how to handle her conflict with Hrithik Roshan.
Kangana claimed Akhtar asked her to apologise to co-star Hrithik Roshan in an interview she gave to a news outlet in 2020 following Rajput’s passing. Roshan had sued Kangana in 2016 seeking an apology following a public spat over a statement about their alleged relationship. Rakesh Roshan, the father of Hrithik Roshan, and his family are quite large people, according to Javed Akhtar, who once summoned me to his home. You won’t have anywhere to go if you don’t apologise to them. They will lock you up, and finally the only option would be for you to end your life by suicide. He said these things. He yelled and shouted at me.
Javed proclaimed in front of the jury, “Whatever Kangana said in the interview is a lie and nothing but a lie.”
