Akshaye Khanna and Richa Chaddha starrer Section 375: Marzi ya Zabardasti has reached into an uncertain situation after the legal spat between Director Manish Gupta and Producer Kumar Mangat. The two have thwarted their association with each other. As per the reports in DNA, the producers are carrying on with the same project sans Manish. However, the latter is unwilling to give up the script to the producers. Both producer and director are hell bent on their versions and we wonder how this legal episode will turn out to be.

The source told the daily, “After working on the script for two years and waiting for seven months post signing the contract with Kumar Mangat and his company, there was no progress on Section 375. That’s when Manish started getting restless. First, Akshaye delayed by giving priority to The Accidental Prime Minister and then of course, he was trying to get his terms revised.”

“However, Kumar Mangat didn’t reason with him or try to salvage the situation and instead let the matter escalate. Eventually, Manish expressed his opinion to exit the setup and move on with his script to making it with another producer,” added the source.

On the other hand, what Kumar has to say on this is, “I got complaints against Manish by my team, in writing, about how he was being high-handed and ill-treating them, making them wait till late night. In our agreements, it was clear that if he indulged in any nonsensical behaviour, it won’t be tolerated. Due to his bad attitude and behaviour with the with the team, I have terminated the contract and asked him to exit the project.” Looks like there is more time to film actually go on the floors with so much of legal mess going on around it.

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