Kangana Ranaut in another controversy

Mumbai May 18: Every time Actress Kangana Ranaut will be hitting the headlines with some controversies and now a fresh controversy by allegedly snatching the story credit from the writer of her new movie 'Simran'.

When the first look poster of 'Simran' was recently unveiled, it came as a surprise to movie lovers as Kangana was credited for providing 'Additional story and dialogue' for the film. The original writer, Apurva Asrani, was also credited as the "story, screenplay and dialogue writer" but his name appears after Kangana's. Now, he has come out in open calling the actress a 'liar' in a Facebook post and slammed her for stealing his hard work.

Taking to facebook, Asrani wrote, "Ms. Ranaut has been claiming in several interviews that Hansal Mehta, the director of Simran, approached her with just a one line screenplay of the film. She says that the story was a dark & gritty thriller at that stage and that she herself developed it into a light, fun film. This completely discredits me and my efforts, and I have to call out this lie.

I wrote 9 drafts of the script. At no point (during 9 drafts and 1 & a half year!!) was there any talk or communication that Kangana didn't like the tone or direction of the script. In fact, she used to jump with glee when I finished my narrations. After the shoot, I noticed that Kangana had improvised many dialogues, and I thought those improvements were excellent; in keeping with the lines/thoughts, I had written.

Today not only do I see her credit before mine on the poster but I also saw Kangana on her 'Facebook Live' event claiming that she had written the film (with Hansal). I have tried to be dignified about this for so long, but I am at a loss to understand why Kangana would snatch the hard earned work of a writer."

Neither Kangana nor the film's director has yet responded to these allegations.