Sara Ali Khan remembers being sued by Abhishek Kapoor for giving some of her dates to Rohit Shetty for Simmba while Kedarnath was being filmed.
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Sara Ali Khan, an actress, recalls the legal issues she was involved with before to her breakthrough performance. Sara claimed that she was sued for schedule issues that resulted from signing Rohit Shetty's Simmba after she was cast in Kedarnath, her debut movie. In an interview, Sara revealed that the event had "shattered" her and that she didn't know how to handle it because her mother and brother weren't in the city and she was alone. She said that the situation was resolved when Rohit Shetty agreed to surrender three days from her Simmba schedule to Abhishek Kapoor.
Abhishek Kapoor and KriArj Entertainment were embroiled in a legal battle, which led to a delay in production. During this time, Sara signed Simmba, which caused further problems. She attributed this to her management, and said in an interview with mid-day that she sent them to represent her in court when she was sued by Abhishek Kapoor. Asked what went down, she said, “In May 2018, I was supposed to do Simmba. Kedarnath was the first film I signed, Kedarnath was the first set I went on, Kedarnath was everything. Then some dates went upar-neeche, and I also signed Simmba. But now, there were three or four dates that were coinciding. And yeah, so I got sued for Rs 5 crore. I was very nervous, because I didn’t have Rs 5 crore. My grandfather, my mother’s father, was dying, in Delhi. My mother was with him. Ibrahim was in school. And I was served a ‘vakalatnaama’ at home. I didn’t know what to do.”
She continued, “So, I sent the management to court, because I had to go to shoot, which the makers were aware of because they were also at the shoot. Then we shot, what else? I knew there were two ways that this could go, so I just went to Gattu sir (Abhishek Kapoor), and asked him if he’d like my spot girl to make her famous coffee, and he said yes. After that, the shoot was smooth. He also must’ve had his reasons. But it’s all good now. It’s all water under the bridge.”
Asked if her management was sued and not her, Sara said that she doesn’t know. She said that the matter was resolved when the two filmmakers had a meeting to hash things out. “Then Rohit sir and Gattu sir met in a room. Ranveer came in and said, ‘Okay then’, and quickly left. They wanted only three days, and Rohit sir said, ‘Le lo’. And it was done. It was a bit tricky because I spent a lot of time flying from Hyderabad to Mumbai, because I was shooting for them simultaneously.”
In an interview with Siddharth Kannan, Abhishek was asked about this episode, and he said, “Those days, my dates (from her) were given to somebody else by some overenthusiastic management that was running her. It was just unacceptable to us. I had to finish my film, I could not afford to let go of the dates because I had a big set standing… I had to fight her, but at the same time on the same days we were shooting together also. To get my dates back, we had to go to court. While we are fighting in court during the day, Sara and I are shooting important scenes the same evening in a temple!”
Kedarnath was released in the first week of December 2018, and Simmba debuted at the end of the month. In the end, Sara had two box office hits under her belt, but when asked if she was flattered to be in such high demand, Sara joked that she was ‘shattered’ instead.
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