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Akshata Shetty
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Looks like problems for Salman Khan are yet to end. As if, the actor was not satisfied with his on-going court cases that he decided to invite yet another to join them. Yes, you heard that right. After the hit-and-run case, black buck poaching case and arms act case, the bollywood actor has now a new case of defamation slashed upon him. The case has been lodged by none other than the Veer producer Vijay Galani. (ALSO READ: Salman Khan Arms Act case: Justice Vijay Vishnoi recuses from hearing actor’s petition!)
The producer has filed a Rs 250 crore case on the Dabangg star and unfortunately the case has been ruled in Galani’s favour. Well, 2015 is quite ill-fated for Salman Khan. According to the report published by leading daily, the producer said, “I agreed to give Salman a signing amount of Rs 10 crores for Veer. In his entire career, Salman had not received this kind of a signing amount. In fact his entire fee for Yuvraaj and Wanted and other films during that period was around Rs 7-8 crore each. Even Salim Saab said this signing amount was unprecedented. Besides this amount, we agreed that Salman would get Rs 15 crore if and when there is an ‘overflow’ (profits made by the film). Salman completed the film happily. And I sold the film to Eros Entertainment. Eros, Salman and I drew up a tri-party agreement that the first overflow amount of Rs 15 crore would go to Salman.” (ALSO READ: Bajrangi Bhaijaan: Salman Khan in love with Pawan Kumar Chaturvedi!)
Galani is a family friend of Khan and has a good rapport with the actor. It was on the actor’s suggestion that he decided to produce Veer with Sohail Khan, Subhash Ghai and Sajid Nadiadwala. The 2010 film turned out to be a disaster at the box office thus ending all the discussion about the overflow profit amount. But, in March 2010, Galani received a letter from Salman’s office which demanded a copy of the agreement letter. The producer said, ” The most interesting thing about this letter was that on the night before I received it I was at Salman’s place laughing and joking as usual. He mentioned that his new business manager was sending me a letter and I should just ignore it. Then in April I received another letter stating that Salman finds the Rs15 crore overflow agreement to be unacceptable.This, after everything being on paper.We were working together for two years and he never mentioned he had any problem with the ‘overflow’ agreement. What made him suddenly wake up about having a problem with the overflow?” (ALSO READ: Salman Khan illegal arms case: Court admits revision petition!)
Salman Khan had even approach CINTAA(the Cine & TV Artistes Association) with the letter. However, the association ruled the case in Galani’s favour as the movie earned no profits and all the claims were mentioned on paper. “Firstly the ‘overflow’ agreement was on paper and secondly Veer showed no profits. So CINTAA ruled in my favour.Then I took the help of my producers’ association. Salman then complained to the Federation Of Western India Cine Association. But I responded saying there was no overflow. In the meanwhile Salman got upset with CINTAA. So to please him they issued a non-cooperation letter against me which was totally invalid and baseless,” added Galani. (ALSO READ: ABCD 2 rocks yet Salman Khan’s Bajrangi Bhaijaan walks away with all praises!)
Since, everything was clearly mentioned on papers, there was no scope for the actor to demand money from the producer. Besides, the non-cooperation letter issued to him was baseless. Hence the court ruled the case in Galani’s favour. Since the Veer producer feels his precious years got wasted on this case, he is liable to receive reimbursement for the same. Hence she slammed a Rs 250 crore case on Salman Khan. Galani concluded the interview stating, “I cannot tell you what I’ve gone through during the last three years .My mental agony and the money on lawyers has left me drained. I’ve filed a Rs 250 crore defamation case against Salman for mental agony, harassment, loss of face.Who will give me back the 3 years that I’ve lost?”
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