Mumbai: Apurva Asrani has lashed out against Kangana Ranaut following credit controversy that has erupted after Manikarnika - The Queen of Jhansi director Krish claimed that the actor 'hijacked' the period drama.
In 2017, Asrani accused Ranaut of discrediting his work on Simran and debunked her claim of converting the movie from "one line screenplay to a full-fledged story". Two years and a war of words later, the writer-editor has supported Krish, who has broken silence on his exit from the Rani Lakshmibai biopic, starring Ranaut.
The actor, who turned director with Manikarnika, claimed that she stepped in to fill Krish's shoes after he was unavailable to re-shoot a chunk of the project.
But the director rubbished the claims, saying they together started and shot the film. In a series of tweets, Asrani said Manikarnika had unfortunately gone the Simran way. The writer warned the director how he will be targeted by Ranaut for speaking up. "What's going to hurt more brother Krish is that she will run a vicious smear campaign to destroy your credibility. "And worse, a large section of the media, especially the pseudo feminists, will ignore your story like they did when Ketan Mehta and then I claimed she hijacked our films. Sad," Asrani wrote on Twitter.