'She Used It To Make An Allegation...': Javed Akhtar Says Kangana Ranaut Put Him In Some 'Suicide Brigade'

Kangana Ranaut claimed in an interview that Javed Akhtar threatened to ruin her career.

Javed Akhtar stated that Kangana had earlier claimed that he had threatened her.

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New Delhi: After Kangana Ranaut claimed in an interview that Javed Akhtar threatened to ruin her career and push her to commit suicide, the lyricist-writer has said that he was "humiliated." In a defamation case, he filed against the actor, Akhtar testified before a magistrate court on Wednesday.

Javed Akhtar allegedly refuted Kangana's allegations, which caused him to lodge a complaint against her, as reported by India Today. He stated that Kangana had earlier claimed that he had threatened her, but he had chosen to ignore the claim.

“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,” Akhtar 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,” he added. 

Javed Akhtar said he would have 'forgotten' about the television interview. However, he received calls from people in Lucknow who told him that they hadn't expected this from him. 

“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,” he said. 

Kangana said that her conversation with the lyricist happened after she and Hrithik Roshan engaged in a public verbal spat. Speaking of the incident, he said, "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.”

Last year, Kangana Ranaut made an appearance to make a statement in the ongoing defamation case. On June 12, Kangana's attorney will question Javed Akhtar in a cross-examination.