‘Sanju’: Gangster Abu Salem sends a legal notice to the makers of the biopic

Ranbir Kapoor starrer ‘Sanju’ a biopic on actor Sanjay Dutt is reaping at the box-office. The Rajkumar Hirani directorial is all about the trials and tribulations of Dutt’s controversial life and how he overcame them. The film has raked in more than Rs 300 crore at the box-office and is steadily moving ahead.

And now, gangster Abu Salem has sent a legal notice to the makers over a certain scene in the movie that he alleges has defamed him. In the said scene, we get to see Ranbir as Sanjay taking arms from the underworld and one of the gangsters were reportedly shown as Abu Salem.

Salem has sent a notice to Rajkumar Hirani, co-producer Vidhu Vinod Chopra and production houses Fox Star Studios, 20th Century Fox, Vinod Chopra Films and Rajkumar Hirani Films.

The notice reads as, “The scene where Ranbir Kapoor (pictured as Sanjay Dutt) gives a confessional statement about possession of arms and ammunition during communal tension around our country in 1993, is defaming my client (Salem), as my client never supplied the arms and ammunition, as alleged to Sanjay Dutt, as pictured in the film.”

In the notice, it is also said that the contents in the film are, “extremely insinuating, disparaging and defamatory attacking the reputation of Salem.”

The gangster has always maintained that he never supplied arms and ammunition to Dutt. “My client neither met Sanjay Dutt nor supplied any arms or ammunition to him, as portrayed by you in your film,” the notice reiterated.

Salem has threatened to take legal action against the filmmakers if they failed to publish an apology in this regard.

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