After five years of legal battles, actor-MP Kangana Ranaut and lyricist Javed Akhtar have reached a settlement in their defamation cases.

On Friday, Kangana shared the update on Instagram, writing: “Today Javed ji and I have resolved our legal matter (defamation case) through mediation, in the mediation Javed ji has been very kind and gracious, he also agreed to write songs for my next directorial (sic).”

She accompanied the post with a picture of them together.

The dispute traces back to 2020, when Kangana, in an explosive interview following Sushant Singh Rajput’s death, accused Bollywood’s elite of sidelining outsiders. During this conversation, she claimed that Javed Akhtar had once pressured her to apologize to Hrithik Roshan over their 2016 public feud.

“Once Javed Akhtar called me to his house and told me Rakesh Roshan (father of Hrithik Roshan) and his family are very big people. If you don’t apologize 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. He shouted and yelled at me,” she told the news channel.

Post that, Javed Akhtar filed a defamation case against her. He told the court, “Whatever Kangana said in the interview is a lie and nothing but a lie. I had told her about the agenda of the meeting on call. Didn’t call her to discuss the weather, political situation or America election in 2016.”