Filmmaker Vikram Bhatt, who recently filed a defamation case against Kamaal R. Khan, on Monday slammed the actor for making derogatory remarks and lewd comments about Bollywood actresses on social media. He feels it's time to fight Khan's comments to safeguard the industry's women.
Bhatt recently filed a defamation case against Khan for saying distasteful things about him and "1920 London" actress Meera Chopra.
On Monday morning, he took to his Facebook account and expressed anger at Khan for disrespectful and uninhibited comments regarding the industry's celebrities.
Time and again, Khan has tweeted about actresses like Priyanka Chopra, Huma Qureshi, Madhuri Dixit Nene, Alia Bhatt, Parineeti Chopra, Sunny Leone, Bipasha Basu and Nargis Fakhri.
Wahiyat @TheVikramBhatt has sent me one more notice today. Vikram, m not a Lukkha Like u who has Faltu time 2play notice notice. So Fuck off
— KRK (@kamaalrkhan) June 27, 2016
"My defamation suit is suddenly not important. This fight has stopped being about me now. The film fraternity has been a source of livelihood for my family for generations. This is the least I can do to say, 'Thank you'," Bhatt posted.
He questioned why people -- even those who found Salman Khan’s one comment on rape distasteful -- have been quiet about Kamaal Khan for years.
Apne Saare notice Ki Batti Bana Aur Apne Pichwade Main Dalkar soja Lukkhe @TheVikramBhatt! M khan n U r Vikram L*** https://t.co/37JMCUWFYZ
— KRK (@kamaalrkhan) June 27, 2016
"We must fight because the NGOs and the Women's Commission which should safeguard the ladies of my fraternity have not found anything disrespectful about this man's comments. I don't understand why."
"We must fight because Twitter India has not taken this account down and thinks Mr. Khan's comments are free speech. I don't understand why," Bhatt wrote.
"We must fight because the ladies in my fraternity are being abused and the various film associations think it is all right. I don't understand why... We must fight because a man attacks my tribe every other day and we have no other way but to go into the filth to fight him."
Bhatt said he was perturbed by Khan's "absurd insinuations" of calling him a "fraud, a pimp and other unsavory names".
"I couldn't care less; When you have made a business of ranting, then ranting is what you got to do," he thought.
But Bhatt was hurt when he saw his daughter crying over it. And it's then that he decided to fight the situation.
He shared that he received calls and messages from concerned friends and colleagues when the news of his sending Khan a defamation notice became known.
"They advised me against continuing with this fight. When you fight filth you get filthy yourself, they warned, and they are right."
Bhatt said the defamation case led an "enraged" Khan to go on a Twitter rant, saying: "Now I will reveal in the court how Vikram Bhatt tried to supply Meera Chopra to a well-known producer by many dirty tricks."
After staying mum for several days, Meera Chopra has finally released a statement in which she has asserted that she has "no friendship with Mr. Khan beyond a passing acquaintance." She also made it clear that all of KRK's claims are false.
Here's what her statement says:
"In regards to the recent insinuations by Mr. Kamaal R Khan on Twitter about my colleague Mr. Vikram Bhatt and me, I have only the following statement to make; I have no friendship with Mr. Khan beyond a passing acquaintance and certainly do not confide in him about my personal and professional matters.
Further, his tweets that claim that I am a source of any kind of information to him are a falsehood. I am saddened because every person has emotional stakeholders in their lives in the form of their parents, relatives and friends, so when this kind of malicious rumor is perpetrated it only causes much grief to everyone involved and not just to the individual who is a victim to such gossip.
The personal and professional matters are usually discussed after a couple of rounds of wine and invariably the person loses social inhibitions.
Having said this, I shall leave my fight to my colleague Mr. Vikram Bhatt and my esteemed lawyer Mr. Rizwan Siddiqui. I will trust them to speak for me."
