KRK sends out a public apology

Just a week ago Kamaal Rashid Khan, through his Twitter account, informed everyone that Vikram Bhatt sent him a legal notice accusing him of defamation with regard to his review of 1920 London. After that, KRK sent out a volley of tweets to Bhatt and many Bollywood personalities, and most of them were not in good taste. One of the tweets was sent to Shraddha Kapoor whose brother Siddhant tweeted back to KRK, to stand up for his sister.

Bollywood and KRK go back a long way and for the most part the latter has shared cordial relations with the industry. For reasons best known to them, several filmmakers and actors host lunches and dinners for him. Actors like Riteish Deshmukh and Abhishek Bachchan reply to him addressing him as “bhaijaan”. Amitabh Bachchan had even gone to inaugurate his website a few years ago.

It has been a week since the Bhatt episode, and now in a gesture that has surprised many, KRK has apologised for his tweets. His lawyer too replied to the legal notice that was sent by Bhatt. Two days ago, KRK had tweeted that he would leave Twitter if he got more than 2,000 “hate-tweets”. He had clocked 4,000 by the next morning, which is when he changed his tone, and started requesting people to support him and not let him leave Twitter.

A source in the know said, “KRK got into trouble after the legal notice was sent to him. Also the online petition against KRK was signed by a huge number of people. His lawyer advised him to apologise publicly and put the matter to rest.”