"Was Feeling Humiliated": Javed Akhtar Says He Was "Embarrassed" By Kangana Ranaut's 'Suicide' Claims Against Him
Javed Akhtar has stated that he felt humiliated after actress Kangana Ranaut alleged that he tried to sabotage her career.
Lyricist-writer Javed Akhtar has stated that he felt humiliated after actress Kangana Ranaut alleged that he tried to sabotage her career, which would drive her to suicide. Kangana Ranaut had made the allegations during a TV interview after Sushant Singh Rajput allegedly died by suicide in 2020. In the latest entertainment news, Javed Akhtar recently appeared before a magistrate court in a defamation case that he’d filed against the actress. As per India Today, Javed Akhtar denied the claims made by Kangana Ranaut and said that her comments caused him a lot of embarrassment.
"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. This was not earlier," said Javed Akhtar.
"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," he added.
Javed Akhtar also said that he would have forgotten about this incident, but many people had extreme reaction to the television interview.
“I was very upset and may have chosen to ignore it. We are lazy people who are concerned with the creative field. It took me 4-5 months to file this case as I saw that it was not going away. I was under tremendous pressure. I was feeling humiliated. People did not let me forget it, and it was getting bigger and more and more embarrassing, so I had to file this complaint," said Javed Akhtar.
Earlier, while speaking to Pinkvilla, Kangana Ranaut had said: "Once Javed Akhtar had called me to his house and told me that Rakesh 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. Why did he think if I don’t apologise to Hrithik Roshan, I would have to commit suicide? He shouted and yelled at me. I was shaking in his house.”
However, Javed Akhtar also denied these claims, saying he was speaking to both Kangana and Hrithik Roshan and just wanted the duo to apologise to each other.
“I tried to convince her by saying that only people are having fun at hearing all this while her name is being muddied and it would affect her career. However, Ranaut was not receptive to my suggestion as I had a very formal relationship with her, so I was not able to insist after a point and I told her to forget about these things. We parted on a friendly note,” he said.
