/> The apparently judiciary-sanctioned declarations of tv actor Pulkit Samrat who plays Lakshya in the popular soap Kyunkii Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Tthi accusing Balajee of underpaying and under-using him, has stunned the whole company.

Upset and shell-shocked Ekta says, "Pulkit seems to have misconstrued what the honorable judiciary has upheld. I won't like to say anything on the legal aspect of this matter because that's being handled by the lawyers.

My lawyers know exactly what the court said, and it isn't what Pulkit is making it out to be. Nut I must say Pulkit's allegations have stunned me.I'll be damned if I let Pulkit get away with these lies about me and my company.

I gave him a break in my most popular serial. And now he makes me sound like a tyrant! We let other actors like Mauni,Prachi, Jai and Karan Patel work outside our company. Why would we stop Pulkit?

The truth is, after evading our schedules for Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi for months apparently due to a bad back he was busy clubbing the night away.

Our production managers have been in tears because of Pulkit's troublesome ways. My creative director will tell you what we've gone through."

Nivedita Basu is far more forthright. "Pulkit claims we were't using him properly in Kyunkii Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Tthi. That's totally wrong. Post-June he wanted to get into films and was constantly telling us of his plans.

We were okay by it. A lot of our actors are doing other stuff including cinema and reality tv. We always accommodate our actors' other activities outside our company. At a time when his track was at its peak in the Kyunkii plot he took a break.

He returned claiming to have a back problem. We'd get just 3-4 hours per day. My production team was at its wit's end specially when we'd see Pulkit's pictures all over the place. And now he claims we weren't using his talents in our show.

Actors just have to come up to us and tell us. We're happy to accommodate them in other shows. Pulkit could've been accommodated in as many shows as he wanted. Hiten Tejwani shoots for 16 hours in two shows.

But we were always given the impression that Pulkit couldn't shoot for more than a few hours because of health reasons. It comes as a shock to me to know he felt under-used at Balajee. Not once did he let us know he felt that way.

All he needed to do was tell us what his problem was. We could've put him in as many shows as he wanted."