Updated May 8th, 2019 at 17:12 IST

'Mental Hai Kya' vs 'Super 30' scheduling conflict grows, Ekta Kapoor and Rangoli Chandel issue posts

Rangoli Chandel tags Hrithik Roshan on Twitter after Ekta Kapoor writes, 'The ugly underground tweets have begun'

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As Kangana Ranaut's 'Mental Hai Kya' and Hrithik Roshan's 'Super 30' are all set to clash at box-office on July 26, Ekta Kapoor took to her Twitter handle to say that she has promised to keep it clean. She wrote: "The ugly underground tweets have begun. I‘ve promised to keep it clean and have assurances from my actors on the same. 
I hope personal assaults on them stop, because it’s my decision & Not theirs." [sic]

Here's the post -

Tagging Ekta's post, Rangoli Chandel, Kangana Ranaut's spokesperson and sister took to Twitter handle and tagged Hrithik Roshan in few of her tweets. Here's what she said -

In January, Hrithik announced that his film "Super 30" will release on July 26. The decision was taken after director Vikas Bahl was accused of sexual assault by a woman who worked under the now dissolved Phantom Films. 

Ekta Kapoor's Balaji Motion Pictures, producer of "Mental Hai Kya", said that the clash is not deliberate and they have decided to push the release date from June 21 to July 26 "after the recommendations from distributors, trade analysts and their research team".

"We have been advised to shift the release of our movie to July 26, purely for the business prospects. On knowing, that there is already a movie scheduled for a release on that date, we did it all in our purview to ensure that there will be no mud slinging and it will be dignified release. We stand by assuring that to all other parties," the statement from the production banner read. 

Soon after the announcement, various online entertainment portals and social media users started labelling the change in release date deliberate. 

Ekta took to Twitter to condemn the reports. 

"My decision my film... So all brickbats directed to me please. I'm my own person," she wrote. 

READ | Here's What Hrithik Roshan's 'Super 30' Makers Said About Their Clash With Kangana Ranaut's 'Mental Hai Kya'. Read Here

"Mental Hai Kya", directed by Prakash Kovelamudi, also features Rajkummar Rao. After "Queen", this is Kangana and Rajkummar's second film together. 

Prior to this film, Kangana's "Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi" was supposed to have a box office war with "Super 30" on January 25.

Reports of "Super 30" team postponing the release to August 9 are doing the rounds, but later the makers tweeted -

(With Inputs from PTI)

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Published May 8th, 2019 at 17:05 IST