‘Aankhen 2’ producer Gaurang Doshi has been reportedly slapped with a contempt of court order. The cinema’s celeb stars, Amitabh Bachchan and Anil Kapoor too are served with legal notices, according to a report in a daily tabloid. The Mumbai Mirror report quoted Rajeev Rajtaru, owner of Rajtaru Studios, stating that they had bought the rights to remake ‘Aankhen’ in 2013. While a script for the sequel was being worked upon, Gaurang Doshi went ahead with the casting of his own version of ‘Aankhen 2’ and hence Rajeev moved court in August this year. The report further mentions that Chirag Mody, Doshi’s lawyer had stated in court that the producer had nothing to do with the sequel but the filmmaker still went on to announce the Bollywood film with a glamorous event in Mumbai, full of celebs and cinema world’s stars.
It has also been reported that Justice SJ Kathawala of the Bombay High Court had observed that Gaurang Doshi had repeatedly made false statements before the court, misled the court and interfered with administration of justice. He should be held under contempt of court. The case is currently sub-judice and the next hearing is scheduled for September 14.
In order to clarify his side of the story and refute statements made by Rajeev Rajtaru, an official statement from the legal adviser of Gaurang Doshi has been released.
“It is necessary to clarify on behalf of my client that:
Firstly, there is no contempt of court order against my client, there is only a show cause notice issued by the Hon’ble Court which my client shall be replying to.
Secondly, the statement that legal notices have been sent to the director and to the actors also seem to be false to the best of the knowledge of my client.
Thirdly, the statement that my client’s previous counsel Chirag Modi had informed the court on August 9th, 2016, that his client had nothing to do with ‘Aankhen 2’, is also absolutely false. In fact, the matter was not even heard on 9th August 2016.The court records and orders clearly reveal the falsehood in the said statements of Rajeev.
Rajtaru is very well aware that my client has purchased all rights in the film ‘Aankhen 2’ from Eros International Media Pvt Ltd, in whom the entire copyrights, all Media rights, Intellectual Property rights, Title of the film and all other rights in the said film exclusively vest for the term in perpetuity and for the Territory of whole world including India.
Fourthly, that the statements that “if work on ‘Aankhen 2’ is not stopped, an arrest warrant awaits Doshi” is also baseless and only on presumptions and to tarnish my client’s image.
In fact, it is Rajeev Rajtaru who has made false and misleading statements before the media with dishonest and mala fide intentions by misquoting the facts on record in the pleadings and proceedings before the Hon’ble Court with an intention to prejudice the public at large as well as the Hon’ble Court while the matter is sub-judice. Rajeev Rajtaru has thus attempted to create hindrance in the process of law and has interfered with the administration of justice, which makes Rajeev liable for contempt of court. My client shall be filing appropriate application before the Hon’ble Court by placing all the above-mentioned facts on records and for appropriate orders and directions against Rajeev of Rajtaru Studios.
My client is also contemplating filing defamation proceedings against Rajeev of Rajtaru Studios.”
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