Shah Rukh Khan and Shraddha Kapoor’s names crop up in the Vivek Oberoi-Gaurang Doshi dupe case: The Big Scandal – Times of India

It has been out in few corners that Vivek Oberoi and Gaurang Doshi got duped of crores of rupees by a certain Radhika and Sanjay. Well, the latest is that Sanjay has been arrested but Radhika is still absconding. Earlier it was being said that both Sanjay and Radhika were behind bars. Remember, this Big Story is coming to you as an EXHAUSTIVE EXCLUSIVE on ETimes only. Talking exclusively to ETimes an hour ago, Gaurang revealed, “Yes, it is only Sanjay who has been arrested. The arrest happened in Mumbai. The police picked him up from a certain flat. The cops are now locating Radhika.”

The big scandal broke out sometime last year when Gaurang was introduced to Sanjay Saha and Radhika Nanda by Vivek. By then, Vivek was already being conned but did not have even a whiff of it. Talking to ETimes, Vivek says that he had invested quite a bit of money with Radhika and Sanjay’s so-called non-existent company that promised to set up films and events with him. “I was told that they have the rights of the Kishore Kumar biopic. They later even made me speak to Amit Kumar (Kishore Kumar and Ruma Guha Thakurta’s son) and Sumeet (Kishore Kumar and Leena Chandavarkar’s son).” Says Dia, an ex-employee with Radhika and Sanjay, who was also managing Gaurang’s work then, “Vivek showed interest to produce the Kishore Kumar biopic.”

Adds Vivek, “Radhika and Sanjay apparently sold dreams in Bangladesh that Shraddha Kapoor will attend an event there. Then they were also in discussions for a show that would star Shah Rukh Khan and be held abroad.” We don’t know if Shah Rukh and Shraddha are aware of this, but Vivek goes on to say, “Of course, they were using my name to get those investments. I believe they have siphoned off a lot of money abroad and cheated several other people.”

Gaurang further informed that Sanjay and Radhika led them to believe that they had Nawazuddin Siddiqui on board for a film. “Zee pumped in money and they did some mock shoot with juniors to fool us that they had put the Nawaz film on floors. But after 2 days, we realised they hadn’t paid anybody who contributed to that 2-day work. Vivek had even given them some amount for Nawaz, which apparently never reached Nawaz.” Wonder if Nawaz is aware of this.

The shock and hurt compounded, and Vivek admits candidly, “It was a personal setback to me, as I had invested so much of energy, time, money and above all, faith, in them. Worse still, I started getting to know that they were not paying the staff in the collaboration they had with me. I started sending them the salary directly and later realised that Sanjay and Radhika were compelling them to reimburse a part of that salary into their accounts.”

“And what about the eight writers they said they have on board to help me revive ‘7th Sense’ on a larger scale? I had plans of ‘7th Sense’ since a long time, but things changed after COVID, and I felt we could make on a much bigger scale. I was supposed to be a part of ‘7th Sense’, but when I asked for a Zoom call meeting with the writers, none of them appeared. And mind you, we were floated good names. And wait! They even made me pay some cast members, other than the lead cast, though them. And the money never reached those people,” Gaurang added.

It was Dia’s conscience that perhaps turned the tables on Radhika and Sanjay. A conscience that woke up. Dia informed Gaurang that he was being taken for a ride. “It was hunky-dory for few years as Sanjay and Radhika set about setting their stage. But eventually, I realised that they were conning people into investments. It was really too much for me when they conned Gaurang and Vivek. I told Gaurang what I felt,” said Dia.

Vivek and Gaurang set about to do the cleansing, but it was too late. Radhika and Sanjay were walking much ahead of them… until the police got into the act.