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Kangana Ranaut and Javed Akhtar have settled out of court in a five-year-long legal battle, agreeing to withdraw the suits they filed against each other.

Ranaut, the actor turned member of parliament, shared the news on her Instagram story on Friday. “Today Javed Ji and I have resolved our legal matter (defamation case) through mediation, in the mediation Javed Ji has been very kind and gracious, he also agreed to write songs for my next directorial,” she wrote atop a picture of the two.

Akhtar, the lyricist and screenwriter, filed a defamation complaint against Ranaut in 2020 in which he accused her of making defamatory statements about him. He was referring to an interview she gave after the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput.

“Once Javed Akhtar called me to his house and told me Rakesh Roshan (father of Hrithik Roshan) and his family are very big people. If you don’t apologise to them, you will have nowhere to go. They will put you in jail, and eventually, the only path would be that of destruction… you will commit suicide. These were his words. He shouted and yelled at me. I was shaking in his house,” Ranaut had said in the interview.

Akhtar then filed the case against her. He told a court, “Whatever Kangana said in the interview is a lie and nothing but a lie. I had told her about the agenda of the meeting on call. Didn’t call her to discuss the weather, political situation or America election in 2016.”

Ranaut had also filed a complaint against Akhtar accusing him of extortion and outraging modesty by invading her privacy.