Aditya Pancholi, who often makes headlines for wrong reasons, is back in the limelight for yet another controversy as film producer Sam Fernandes has filed a case against the actor. The producer has accused Aditya of allegedly abusing, assaulting, and threatening him in a hotel. According to reports, Sam has lodged the complaint at Mumbai's Juhu police station. 

After Sam's accusations, Aditya Pancholi too has filed a cross-complaint against the producer in the matter. Confirming the same, Mumbai Police told ANI, "Film producer Sam Fernandes has lodged a complaint at Mumbai's Juhu police station against actor Aditya Pancholi for allegedly abusing, threatening & assaulting him at a hotel. Pancholi has also lodged a cross-complaint".

Film producer Sam Fernandes has lodged a complaint at Mumbai's Juhu police station against actor Aditya Pancholi (in file photo) for allegedly abusing, threatening & assaulting him at a hotel. Pancholi has also lodged a cross-complaint: Police pic.twitter.com/95wuNYalS5

Apparently, Aditya's son Sooraj Pancholi is the reason behind his feud with Sam. Aditya, reportedly, was pressuring Sam to retain Sooraj in his film based on the life of an Indian heavyweight boxer. 

Revealing the same, Sam informed TOI, "I had announced the film with Sooraj in the lead role in 2019. He shot for around 12 days for the project. However, things went awry after the first lockdown, as the investors did not want to back a film with Sooraj in the lead. I spoke to Sooraj about it, who himself asked us to go ahead with another actor. However, his father, Aditya Pancholi, insisted that we retain Sooraj and that he would get an investor, but that didn’t happen".

A budget of around Rs 25 crore was needed to make the film. While Aditya too gave some money but that wasn't enough. Last month, on January 27, things took an ugly turn between them when the Yes Boss actor called Sam to a hotel for a meeting. Reportedly, the actor threatened the producer to take Sooraj in the film or else he wouldn't let the film be made. 

Aditya, on the other hand, levelled similar accusations against Sam, alleging that the producers misbehaved with him and demanded more money. Sharing his side of the story, Aditya told TOI that Sam came to him in February 2020 and asked for money after sharing a sob story. The producer told him, ‘Khatam ho jaaunga, ghar girvi rakh diya hai, vendors ka paisa dena hai’. 

Aditya then allegedly gave him Rs Rs 90 lakh 50 thousand. He added, "On January 27, he visited me at a hotel and, after a while, started misbehaving with me and talking rubbish about Sooraj and my family. He asked me for more money, and I refused. I asked him to return the money he had earlier borrowed, but he flatly refused. Next, I got to know that he filed an NC against me at the Juhu Police Station. I, too, filed an NC against him the following day. I have also filed an application for an FIR against him at the Versova police station".

While Sam has accepted that Aditya gave him money but stressed that it was for his son's sake and the film. 

For the uninitiated, Sooraj made his Bollywood debut in 2015 with Salman Khan-produced Hero opposite Suniel Shetty's daughter Athiya Shetty. However, the film failed to make a mark at the box office. Later, he appeared in Satellite Shankar and Time to Dance. 

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