It looks like 2022 is not a favourable year for Akshay Kumar or Jacqueline Fernandez. Now for their forthcoming starrer Ram Setu directed by Abhishek Sharma which was all set to be released in October 2022, Akshay’s producers have received a legal notice from BJP politician Subramanian Swamy.
The politician announced in a tweet that he intends go legal on Ram Setu for distorting history: “Mumbai cinema [or is it sin-e-ma] wallas have a bad habit of falsifying and misappropriation. Hence to teach them Intellectual Property Rights, I have through Satya Sabharwal Adv issued Legal Notice to Cine Actor Akshay Kumar(Bhatia) and 8 others for distorting Ram Setu saga.”
While there is no official statement from the film’s co-producers Vikram Malhotra and Aruna Bhatia, sources inform me that the release of Ram Setu may be postponed until the legal issues are resolved.
For Akshay Kumar who has a slew of flops in recent months and for Jacqueline Fernandez whom the Enforcement Directorate has named in the extortion case against alleged scamster Sukesh Chandrashekhar, this is one more blow they could do without.