According to their friends, the matter has gone beyond the domain of 'amicable settlement'.
A friend of Kangana says, "She isn’t the kind of girl to take these accusations lying down. No matter what the authenticity of the claims, the fact that Hrithik has threatened to make her correspondence to him public has angered Kangana. She is a fighter. She will fight this out.”
A close director-friend of Hrithik feels there is more to their public squabble than meets the eye.
"We don’t know who is to blame. But as far as we know, Hrithik is seeing someone else now. She is a part of the film industry but not actively associated with movies."
According to this friend, "Hrithik’s main concern is his children. He doesn’t want his two sons to be exposed to any of this muck-raking business. He will do what it takes to protect his children from gossip and scandals in his life."