Aditya Pancholi & producer Sam Fernandes file police complaints against each other

Actor Aditya Pancholi, eho has been controversy's favorite baby for a long time is back in the news and this time it is for a feud with producer Sam Fernandes, who will be producing the film Hawa Singh.

A recent report suggests that both have filed non-cognisable complaints against each other. Fernandes has alleged that Pancholi has been pressurising him to retain his son, Sooraj Pancholi, in the film Hawa Singh.

Talking about it with ETimes, he said, “I had announced the film with Sooraj in the lead role in 2019. He shot for around 12 days for the project. However, things went awry after the first lockdown, as the investors did not want to back a film with Sooraj in the lead. I spoke to Sooraj about it, who himself asked us to go ahead with another actor. However, his father, Aditya Pancholi, insisted that we retain Sooraj and that he would get an investor, but that didn’t happen. He did give some money for the film, but that wasn’t enough. This film is a biopic of an Indian heavyweight boxer, and we would need a budget of around Rs 25 crore to make it.”

Things apparently took an ugly turn between them on 27th January 2022 in a hotel room. He said, “Senior Pancholi wanted to meet me, so he called me to a hotel. Since a few people were already present in his room, we decided to have a discussion in the corridor. After some time, he told me that I must take his son in the film, or he wouldn’t let me make it. He abused me and tried to punch me. When I turned to leave, he kicked me on my back. I went straight to the Juhu police station and filed an NC against him.”

On the other hand, senior Pancholi also filed a cross NC for verbal abuse and intimidation against Sam at Juhu Police Station on January 28. The actor refutes Sam’s allegations and says he has borrowed a huge sum from him last year. He said says, “In February 2020, Sam came to me, shared a sob story and asked for money. He told me, ‘Khatam ho jaaunga, ghar girvi rakh diya hai, vendors ka paisa dena hai’. Being an emotional person, I gave him money up to Rs 90 lakh 50 thousand from my wife’s and children’s accounts. On January 27, he visited me at a hotel and, after a while, started misbehaving with me and talking rubbish about Sooraj and my family. He asked me for more money, and I refused. I asked him to return the money he had earlier borrowed, but he flatly refused."

He added, "Next, I got to know that he filed an NC against me at the Juhu Police Station. I, too, filed an NC against him the following day. I have also filed an application for an FIR against him at the Versova police station.”

Fernandes accepts that Aditya gave him the amount (Rs 90 lakh 50 thousand). He says, “He didn’t lend me money for my personal use, but for the sake of his son. He knew about the risk involved. I would have liked to continue the film with Sooraj if the finances were sorted, but I couldn’t. In fact, I have told Sooraj that I will do my best to recover his investment from the investor who comes on board.”

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