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Palaash Muchhal and Smriti Mandhana (Image credit: X)
NEW DELHI: Fresh contention has surfaced astir the cancellation of Indian cricketer Smriti Mandhana’s wedding with singer-composer Palaash Muchhal, pursuing superior allegations made by actor-producer Vidnyan Mane.
Mane has accused Muchhal of infidelity and fiscal misconduct, claiming helium was cheated of much than Rs 40 lakh successful transportation with an unreleased movie project.
A ceremonial ailment has been filed successful Sangli, Maharashtra.Smriti and Muchhal were initially scheduled to necktie the knot connected November 23, 2025. The wedding was archetypal postponed citing wellness emergencies successful some families earlier being officially called disconnected successful December 2025.In an interrogation with Hindustan Times, the 34-year-old alleged that the narration betwixt Mandhana and Muchhal broke down aft a shocking incidental during wedding festivities successful November 2025. “I was astatine the wedding celebrations (November, 23, 2025) erstwhile helium was caught red-handed with different pistillate successful bed. Bhayanak country tha, helium was beaten up by the Indian pistillate cricketers. The full household is chindi chor. I thought he’d get joined and settee successful Sangli, but it has wholly backfired connected me.”
Mane further claimed helium is simply a puerility person of Smriti Mandhana and was introduced to Muchhal done her family.Mane besides levelled allegations of fiscal coercion against the Muchhal family, stating that helium was pressured to put further wealth into a stalled movie project. “When I met his parent (Amita Muchhal) past month, she said the fund to merchandise the movie has present accrued to ?1.5 crore. They asked maine to put different Rs 10 lakh oregon I wouldn’t get immoderate wealth back.
They started blackmailing maine and threatened to propulsion maine retired of the film, frankincense I was forced to record a complaint,” helium said.According to Mane, connection with the household stopped wholly aft the wedding was cancelled. “After the wedding was called off, the household blocked maine from everywhere. I recovered retired that different artistes from the movie had not received outgo they were owed to person either. I had heard of directors fleecing producers successful the movie manufacture but this is implicit theft,” helium added.Mane besides asserted that helium has grounds to backmost his claims. “I person saved each proofs including my chats and telephone conversations that I’m consenting to stock with the constabulary and the media,” helium said.Muchhal aboriginal issued a effect done an Instagram story, firmly denying each accusations. "In airy of the allegations made by Sangli-based Vidnyan Mane connected societal media, I privation to authorities that these claims against maine are wholly baseless and factually incorrect.
They person been made with malicious intent to tarnish my reputation, and they volition not spell unchallenged. My lawyer, Shreyansh Mithare, is exploring each ineligible avenues, and this substance volition beryllium dealt with strictly done the due ineligible channels,” Muchhal wrote.

Amid wide speculation implicit the reasons down the split, some parties aboriginal issued abstracted statements confirming the cancellation. Smriti stated that she needed to “clarify that the wedding is called off” and requested privacy, portion Muchhal said, “I person decided to determination connected successful my beingness and measurement backmost from my idiosyncratic relationship. Its been precise hard for maine to spot radical respond truthful easy connected baseless rumours astir thing which has been astir ineffable to me.
Its the astir hard signifier of my beingness and I volition woody with it gracefully holding connected to my beliefs.”
