Actor-MP Kangana Ranaut and lyricist Javed Akhtar have settled their long-standing defamation case after five years of legal battles.
Ranaut on Friday said she resolved the long-running defamation case filed against her by veteran screenwriter-lyricist through mediation.
The actor-politician actor posted a photo with Akhtar on Instagram and said the cinema veteran was “kind and gracious” during the mediation process.
“Today Javed ji and I have resolved our legal matter (defamation case) through mediation, in the mediation Javed ji has been very kind and gracious, he also ‘ agreed to write songs for my next directorial,” Kangana wrote with the post.
The legal war between the two began with an interview given to a news channel by Kangana in 2020 after the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput.
Among other statements, Kangana had claimed Akhtar asked her to apologise to co-star Hrithik Roshan, who in 2016 filed a lawsuit against her seeking an apology after public spat over a statement on their alleged relationship.
Akhtar had claimed that Ranaut defamed and damaged his ‘immaculate reputation’ by dragging his name into actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death in her interview with a news channel.
In 2021, Ranaut hit back by filing a counter-complaint against Akhtar before a magistrate’s court, alleging criminal intimidation and insult to modesty.
“Once Javed Akhtar called me to his house and told me Rakesh Roshan (father of Hrithik Roshan) and his family are very big people. If you don’t apologise to them, you will have nowhere to go. They will put you in jail, and eventually, the only path would be that of destruction… you will commit suicide. These were his words. He shouted and yelled at me. I was shaking in his house,” Kangana had told the news channel.
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Javed filed a defamation case against her that raged on for years. He told the court, “Whatever Kangana said in the interview is a lie and nothing but a lie.”
