The legal battle between Kangana Ranaut and Javed Akhtar is getting uglier. The writer had filed a criminal complaint against her in November 2020 before the magistrate allegedly making defamatory and baseless comments against him in television interviews. In December 2020, the court directed the police to conduct an inquiry. However, the actress approached the Bombay High Court seeking the quashing of proceedings initiated by a city magistrate on the criminal defamation complaint.