Luv Ranjan dismisses allegations of non-payment of dues for Ranbir-Shraddha’s upcoming film

Filmmaker Luv Ranjan has denied the allegations against him on non-payment of dues for Ranbir Kapoor-Shraddha Kapor film. He issued a statement regarding the allegations. Reportedly, Luv’s upcoming untitled film with Ranbir and Shraddha was protested by workers over the issues of non-payment of dues. The filmmaker in his statement denied the allegations and called it ‘false and fabricated’.

The statement quoted by India Today read, “We would like to state that the press statement released by FSSAMU is false, fabricated and illegal and is made with ulterior and oblique motives and without authority of law. We would like to place on record the true account of the matter and state that we have duly made entire payments, with no outstanding, as per the contractual arrangement for one of our projects with the service provider being a production designer, Mr. Dipankar Dasgupta, and that it was in fact Mr Dipankar Dasgupta along with Hyperlink Brand Solutions Pvt. Ltd. and Mr Dipankar Dasgupta’s associates, namely, Mr V. G. Jaishankar, Mr V. G. Jairam, Mr Gautam Jukar and Mr Prashant Vicharev who defaulted in making payments to the workers who were actually hired by them and not us, which facts were also duly informed by us to FSSAMU by various communications along with documentary evidence, which makes the aforesaid persons at default and not us.”

“We would like to state that there is no employer-employee relationship between us and the persons/employees hired by/through Mr. Dipankar Dasgupta and as such they or FSSAMU have no locus standi to raise any issues or disputes with us,” it read further.

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The statement also read, “In light of the above, we reserve our right to take appropriate legal (criminal and civil) action, as shall be advised, against FSSAMU and its office bearers, for undertaking all the acts stated above, including criminally defamatory and threatening acts, against us, which are completely unwarranted and uncalled for, having no factual accuracy”.

Ranbir-Shraddha starrer will release on March 8, on the occasion of Holi.

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