Javed Akhtar-Kangana Ranaut Didn’t Settle Defamation Case Mutually? Shabana Azmi Says, ‘The Victory Is His…’

Veteran actress Shabana Azmi, who recently impressed the audiences with her performance in Dabba Cartel, has opened up about her husband Javed Akhtar and actress Kangana Ranaut’s defamation case. While the latter had announced that the case was resolved through mediation and praised the veteran lyricist, Azmi tells a completely different story. During a recent interview, she spoke about the resolution and revealed that contrary to media reports stating that it was a mutual settlement, Akhtar had won the case.

Talking to Bollywood Hungama about it, she revealed that Akhtar and his lawyer Jay Bhardwaj had asked for “no monetary compensation” but for a written apology. She added, “The victory is his and his lawyer Jay Bhardwaj’s.”

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The 74-year-old actress added that the press failed to report the case as it happened. Quoted by News18, she said, “But I’m mystified why the press made it seem as though it was a mutual settlement but did not mention that it was the apology in writing which he was seeking and why he had fought the case for four and a half years”

For the unversed, Akhtar and Ranaut’s legal battle started in 2020 when he filed a complaint against her, claiming that she had made defamatory statements against him during an interview. Alleging that it damaged his reputation. Kangana had appeared in several interviews on news channels after Sushant Singh Rajput’s death. In one of the interviews she had claimed that the senior lyricist had asked her to apologize to Hrithik Roshan, who had filed a lawsuit against her in 2016. He had sought an apology from her after a public spat over a statement on their alleged relationship.

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Javed Akhtar had told the court that details in Kangana Ranaut’s statements were a lie. She had proceeded to file a counter-complaint against him, in the same court, for alleged “extortion and criminal intimidation.” She had maintained that following her dispute with Roshan, he has called her and her sister Rangoli Chandel to his house with “malafide intentions and ulterior motives and then criminally intimidated and threatened” them.