Javed Akhtar, who appeared before a magistrate, revealed why he filed a defamation suit against Kangana Ranaut
Javed Akhtar and Kangana Ranaut have been involved in an ugly spat ever since the lyricist filed a defamation suit against the actress. In 2020, Akhtar filed a complaint against the actress alleging that she defamed him in an interview given to a news channel. He claimed that Kangana dragged his name unnecessarily while referring to a ‘coterie’ existing in Bollywood, following actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death. Javed also moved an application before a court for issuing a non-bailable warrant against Kangana. Now Akhtar has revealed why he filed a defamation suit against Kangana.
On Wednesday, the poet-lyricist appeared before a magistrate and said he felt humiliated after Kangana said in an interview that he threatened to sabotage her career. Javed was quoted saying, “In the magazine interview, she only said I had threatened her, but I did not react to it. She had not said that I threatened her by saying that she would have to commit suicide. But in a television interview in July 2020 she improvised and as everyone was speaking about suicide, she said all this,” he said. “This was not earlier. Suicide had become a buzz word after Sushant Singh Rajput’s death and she used it to make an allegation that I was from some suicide brigade and that I was forcing her to commit suicide. If it was so, she would have mentioned it in her first statement in the magazine.” ALSO READ: Kangana Ranaut-Javed Akhtar Defamation CASE: Actress Requests Mumbai Court To Record The Statement Of Her Sister Rangoli Chandel