AR Rahman sends legal notice to YouTube channels for spreading rumours

Music maestro AR Rahman has sent a stern warning to YouTube channels spreading defamatory rumours against him after he announced his separation from his wife Saira Banu. Netizens linked his divorce to the separation of his bassist Mohini Dey from her husband Mark as it happened around the same time.

Reacting to these rumours, his legal team sent a notice that read, “It is noticed some of the social media platforms and several you-tubers have started a series of calumny and defamatory write-ups about the same with their own concocted and fertile imaginary stories on their private life. There were also interviews by some busy bodies about their own perspective on the failure of their marriage life. It is unnecessary to reproduce each one of the statements that was spread across the social-media platform which is intended to spread knowledge and awareness.”

The notice continued, “My client instructs to inform that there is no iota of truth in any of the programs, interviews attributing obscene contents thereby intending to harm the reputation of mu client and also intended to be hurtful to his family.”

AR Rahman and his wife Saira Banu announced their separation in a joint statement. The composer also took to his social media account to share the update and wrote, “We had hoped to reach the grand thirty, but all things, it seems, carry an unseen end. Even the throne of God might tremble at the weight of broken hearts. Yet, in this shattering, we seek meaning, though the pieces may not find their place again. To our friends, thank you for your kindness and for respecting our privacy as we walk through this fragile chapter.#arrsairaabreakup”