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Priyanka Chopra sends legal notice to ex-boyfriend, former manager
8:58 AM
Vickey Lalwani (MUMBAI MIRROR; June 2, 2014)
The
inevitable has happened.
In a bid to thwart the biopic of her former manager, Prakash Jaju, Priyanka Chopra has sent a legal notice to her ex-boyfriend Aseem Merchant, who is producing the film. The actress believes that the film will revolve around her personal and professional life and has sent a copy of the notice to Jaju too.
The notice, sent by Priyanka's lawyer Anand Desai states: “Our client is shocked to note that while all the news articles mention the proposed film as your (Jaju’s) biopic, the promotions largely refer to our client and inclusion of aspects of her and her family life rather than references to you. You are intending to collude with Mr Merchant in violation of our client’s rights, including right to privacy, defaming our client and lowering her reputation, seeking to subject her to hatred and ridicule. Our client calls upon you to withdraw all the publicity material of the film with immediate effect, desist using or referring to any personal or confidential information about her and/or her family, desist from producing, releasing the proposed film and tender an unconditional apology to her.”
Aseem, who was dating Priyanka when she was crowned Miss World in 2000,
recently launched a production house, Limelight Motion Pictures Pvt Ltd
has maintained that the film, 67 Days, is a “biopic of Priyanka's
ex-manager Jaju”.
The actress had an ugly fallout with Jaju which led to him being arrested and imprisoned for 67 days in 2008. According to Jaju, the actress owed him a huge amount of money and refused to clear his dues. The situation worsened when Jaju allegedly started interfering in Priyanka's personal life. This led to her father (late) Dr Ashok Chopra filing an FIR against Jaju, stating that he was not only making false allegations against his daughter but also threatening the family members. Jaju went into hiding and was finally arrested from Mau, MP.
When contacted, Aseem told Mirror that his legal team is looking into the matter. Meanwhile, Jaju wants Priyanka to take a call after she has read the final script. “If she has still has any objection, then we shall drop the film. I don’t want to hurt her sentiments. The film is about me, not Priyanka. She is just a chapter in that.” Priyanka remained unavailable for comment.
The actress had an ugly fallout with Jaju which led to him being arrested and imprisoned for 67 days in 2008. According to Jaju, the actress owed him a huge amount of money and refused to clear his dues. The situation worsened when Jaju allegedly started interfering in Priyanka's personal life. This led to her father (late) Dr Ashok Chopra filing an FIR against Jaju, stating that he was not only making false allegations against his daughter but also threatening the family members. Jaju went into hiding and was finally arrested from Mau, MP.
When contacted, Aseem told Mirror that his legal team is looking into the matter. Meanwhile, Jaju wants Priyanka to take a call after she has read the final script. “If she has still has any objection, then we shall drop the film. I don’t want to hurt her sentiments. The film is about me, not Priyanka. She is just a chapter in that.” Priyanka remained unavailable for comment.
Priyanka's ex Aseem Merchant to make film on her manager Prakash Jaju
8:13 AM
Vickey Lalwani (MUMBAI MIRROR; May 2, 2014)
Priyanka
Chopra’s former love interest Aseem Merchant who had disappeared from
Bollywood, is back. He has launched a production house, Limelight Motion
Pictures Pvt Ltd, and its first film will chronicle Priyanka’s first
few years in B-Town.Aseem describes the film as a "biopic of Priyanka’s ex-manager Prakash Jaju". Jaju and the actress had a fallout in 2004 which led to Jaju being arrested and imprisoned for 67 days in 2008. According to Jaju, the actress owed him a huge amount of money and refused to clear his dues. The situation worsened when Jaju allegedly started interfering in Priyanka’s personal life. This led to her father (late) Dr Ashok Chopra filing an FIR against Jaju, stating that he was not only making false allegations against his daughter but also threatening the family members. Jaju went into hiding and was finally arrested from Mau, Madhya Pradesh.
Aseem knew Priyanka since her modelling days. They were together when she won the Miss World crown in 2000. Two years later, they parted ways. When asked if someone would play him in the film as well, he said, “The film will depict everybody who interacted with Jaju while he was working with Priyanka.” Mirror has it that Aseem and Jaju have been in touch with each other for more than a decade.
Won’t Priyanka be upset? “My association with Priyanka is long over. I have started a company to make films. My second film may upset someone else,” he retorted, adding, “Priyanka is a lovely person and I am proud of her.”
Commenting on the film, Jaju said: “I’m fine with Aseem’s film. It chronicles Priyanka’s life from the day she entered the film industry till I was put in jail. There will be actors who portray Hema Malini, Sridevi and Jackie Shroff too since I handled their work, before turning into a fund manager. It was only because Priyanka’s father insisted that I take up her work that I returned to Bollywood.”
Aseem insists he would neither sensationalise nor fictionalise the story. “We are in the process of finalising a competent director,” he concluded. Priyanka remained unavailable for comment.
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