On June 12, veteran lyricist Javed Akhtar made an look in a Mumbai court regarding a defamation case he filed against Kangana. Akhtar alleged that positive statements made through actress Kangana Ranaut in an interview with a news channel after the tragic passing of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput in June 2020 have been erroneous.For the uninitiated, Kangana said in an interview to a news channel in 2020, following the loss of life of Sushant Singh Rajput, that Javed Akhtar asked her to apologise to co-big name Hrithik Roshan following a public spat over a observation approximately their alleged romance. She also said that the lyricist instructed her that she might commit suicide if she didn't apologise. "Once Javed Akhtar known as me to his residence and instructed me Rakesh Roshan (father of Hrithik Roshan) and his own family are very massive humans. If you don't apologise to them, you'll have nowhere to go. They will positioned you in prison, and eventually, the most effective path could be that of destruction… you'll commit suicide. These were his words. He shouted and yelled at me. I became shaking in his residence," the 'Queen' actress stated. 

On Monday, Akhtar appeared earlier than the Andheri metropolitan magistrate courtroom in suburban Mumbai for go-examination by the defence lawyer in the defamation case. 

During go-examination, Kangana's attorney Rizwan Siddiquee wondered Akhtar, "Is it genuine that you haven't disclosed the real truth of the assembly with her because something Kangana said inside the interview is actual."

He brushed off all of the statements of the actress and stated, "Whatever Kangana said in the interview is a lie and nothing but a lie."In reaction to a query approximately the meeting at his domestic, Akhtar stated that Kangana had come to his domestic to attempt to training session a solution together with her co-star. He became requested if the actress and her sister got here to his house "obediently".

The 76-year-old lyricist stated, "You count on obedience from Kangana, it isn't referred to as obedience, however possibility for something...Some type of an answer. Physical truth is that they came to my house, but obedience is a belief handiest in mind."Akhtar stated that the actress became aware about the agenda of the assembly. "I had informed her approximately the time table of the meeting on call. Didn't name her to discuss the climate, political state of affairs or America election in 2016," he stated. 

In reaction to another query, he said that at the same time as Kangana was unwilling to listen to him, claiming that she changed into unhappy and afterwards left the meeting is incorrect.