Yesterday, Hansraj Saxena was arrested by the city police in the Chennai airport when he flew from Hyderabad to Chennai. The Sun Pictures official shot to fame during the audio launch and release of the mega budget film Endhiran.
Since then, he has been the name behind the network’s production house. Sun Pictures had bagged many a film last year or for the last couple of years. Hansraj Saxena has been behind the aggressive purchase and marketing of films under the Sun Pictures banner.
He was arrested yesterday, on July 3, 2011, following a complaint by a distributor who claimed to have not been paid his dues amounting to Rs. 82.5 lakhs when Sun Pictures purchased the Rs. 1.25 crore valued film less than one third of its original value.
He had threatened the complainant into selling the distribution rights of the film and now, Hansraj Saxena, had again threatened when he asked him to pay the dues. Although the complaint was made shortly after the film’s release, the police had taken action on him only yesterday.
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Sun Pictures Saxena arrested
Sun Pictures COO Hansraj Saxena, a close aide of Sun Network chairman Kalanithi Maran, has been arrested by Chennai city police in connection with an alleged fraud in the rights of a Tamil film.
Police said Saxena was held after he arrived by a flight from Hyderabad following a complaint by TS Selvaraj, owner of Kandan Films in Salem.
According to the complaint, Sun Pictures, a division of Sun TV that Saxena heads, went ahead and telecast the film without paying the distributor the total amount promised to them. The telecast happened on Saturday on Sun TV.
Following the complaint, KK Nagar police registered a case and arrested Saxena. He was produced before the 9th Metropolitan Magistrate Thirumagal’s house at Saidapet and was remanded until July 17.
Police arrests Sun pictures Saxena!
Hansraj Saxena, Chief Operating Officer of Sun Pictures, was arrested by the City police at the airport on Sunday in connection with a complaint of Rs 1.25 cr cheating and life threat complaint lodged by a Salem-based distributor.
Police said Saxena was held after he arrived by a flight from Hyderabad following a complaint by TS Selvaraj, owner of Kandan Films in Salem.
Police sources said Selvaraj had lodged a complaint on July 1 with the City Police Commissioner alleging that Sun Pictures had signed a deal to sell the distribution rights for Salem area for the film ‘Theeratha Vilayatu Pillai’, starring actor Vishal.
They had signed a deal for Rs 1.25 crore and Sun Pictures had taken the money. But Saxena had distributed the film directly to theatre owners after taking money from them instead of selling the rights to Selvaraj.
Selvaraj had asked for the money to be returned but Saxena had reportedly delayed paying Rs 82.53 lakh as per the deal. On January 5, when Selvaraj asked for the money, he was allegedly threatened.
Following the complaint, KK Nagar police registered a case and arrested Saxena.
He was produced before the 9th Metropolitan Magistrate Thirumagal’s house at Saidapet and was remanded until July 17.
In September 2010, though a complaint was filed by a man called Siddarth, who alleged that goondas had attacked him at the behest of Saxena, the police reportedly did not interrogate him. About 100 hoodlums had stormed the Checkers Hotel in Little Mount in search of Siddarth and ransacked the premises.
Popular Film producer arrested for cheating!!!
Notable Telugu film producer Kalyan, who accused in two cheating cases currently being investigated by the CID, was arrested from his residence in T Nagar, Chennai, on June 29.
After procuring Prisoner Transit (PT) warrant from a local court in Chennai, CID sleuths brought the producer to the city in the wee hours of Friday.
Kalyan was brought to the city and remanded in judicial custody by a local court on Friday.
Kalyan’s links with Bhanu Kiran, an accused in the Suri murder case changed his fate. He allegedly began to encroach on lands of film-makers. Suri came to know about it and confronted Bhanu and Kalyan, warning them not to meddle with film-makers’ properties. “He rotated 6 crore given to farmers by producers in Nanakramguda to construct a residential colony,” a producer told.
He used film trade bodies like the Producers Council and Film Chamber to further his cause. “He forced the general body of the Film Chamber to replace a key post with his close friend.” It is learnt that the cops were hot on his trail for the last 10 days – there was some pressure since the producer allegedly encroached lands of ex-servicemen in Gachibowli and Wakf Board land in Nellore and a couple of warrants were pending against him.
“He threatened financiers who demanded their money back, but it has boomeranged,” says an industry source.