Paresh Rawal, Akshay Kumar
The suspense around Hera Pheri 3 continues to thicken as now Paresh Rawal’s lawyer has officially given a statement on behalf of his client. Earlier on Sunday the popular actor had said, “My lawyer, Ameet Naik, has sent an appropriate response regarding my rightful termination and exit. Once they read my response all issues will be laid to rest."
In continuation with that Paresh Rawal ’s lawyer in the latter part of the day told IANS, “Admittedly, they did not deliver the story, screenplay and also a draft of a long form agreement which was fundamental to the engagement of our client. In the absence of these and also since Mr. Nadiadwala, the producer of the original films, issued notice to our client and raised issues on the making of the film, our client chose to exit and returned the money with interest by terminating the Term sheet."
Firoz Nadiadwala was the earlier producer of the first two movies from the Hera Pheri franchise. He is the cousin of famous producer Sajid Nadiadwala and it seems has already taken legal steps to stop work on Hera Pheri 3. Paresh Rawal’s lawyer stated that the actor wants to maintain a cordial association with Firoz Nadiadwala and at the same time protect his interests as well.
This entire fiasco gained attention when buzz about Akshay Kumar slapping Paresh Rawal with a 25 crore lawsuit for leaving Hera Pheri 3 hit the web. According to reports, the Bollywood superstar had purchased the rights from Firoz and had already started work on producing Hera Pheri 3.
This news left the Hera Pheri franchise fans quite upset with most of them saying that the movie cannot happen without presence of Babu Bhaiyya. Suniel Shetty who also portrayed Shyam in the first two films said that it is not possible to make the film without Pareshji.
Fans are still hoping that Akshay Kumar and the veteran actor will settle all the issues outside the court and will unite for the threequel. Until today many were even speculating that all this fiasco is a PR strategy and soon they will unveil a crazy poster of the trio of Raju, Shyam and Babu Bhaiyya.
But at present that seems to be impossible.