Mumbai: The ongoing spat between actress Manisha Koirala and director Shashilal Nair over certain "objectionable" scenes in a movie "should not be dragged any further" and must be "resolved amicably", feels Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray, who is mediating in the much-hyped socio-legal drama.

"Balasaheb wants this controversy to end now. There is no point in dragging it any further and must be resolved peacefully," Sena MP Sanjay Nirupam said on September 10.

Earlier in the day, Thackeray met Nair, producer-director of the film 'Ek Chhoti Si Love Story', after the latter insisted for a meeting.

"The Sena patriarch then also summoned Manisha as he wanted both the parties engaged in a row to sit across the table and resolve the matter," Nirupam, who was present at the meeting, said.

Manisha, who plays the protagonist in the movie, stirred a hornet's nest after she expressed her objection to certain scenes filmed on her body double.

The Sena chief advised Nair to delete the scenes which have been found "objectionable" by the actress, Nirupam said.

However, Nair insisted that the Sena chief should see the film first and then he was prepared to "do whatever asked for".

Thackeray would now watch the movie at Rajkamal studio on September 12 at a special screening, the Sena MP said.

PTI