Mohammed Hussain, Varanasi’s operations manager, reportedly said a special banquet for Johnny Depp’s celebratory dinner included shish skewers, chicken tikka, tandoori king prawns, butter chicken and paneer tikka masala.
Actor Johnny Depp, who was recently awarded $15 million by a court in the defamation case against ex-wife Amber Heard, has spent over $62,000 (about Rs 48.1 lakh) on a celebratory dinner with friends at an Indian restaurant in Birmingham in the UK, according to reports.
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The 58-year-old Pirates of the Caribbean actor was joined by musician Jeff Beck and around 20 others at Birmingham’s Varanasi restaurant on Sunday evening to sample specially prepared Indian dishes and cocktails. Daily mail reported. Depp and his friends were at the restaurant from about 7 p.m. to midnight.
Mohammed Hussain, Varanasi’s operations manager, told the publication that Depp was “a very lovely, down-to-earth guy” and “spent a lot of time talking with the staff and our friends and family.”
He further said that a special banquet for the holiday included shish skewers, chicken tikka, tandoori king prawns, butter chicken, paneer tikka masala, karahi lamb and king prawn bhuna. Apparently, the actor also ordered takeout.
Ditching Indian sweets, the party closed dinner with panna cotta and vanilla cheesecakes, according to a metro.co.uk report.
The Hollywood actor sat down with Hussain twice in his office, spending between 15 and 20 minutes each time. “When he met my kids, he told them some of the lines from his movies and they were thrilled, they were over the moon,” he said. metro.co.uk.
Depp and Heard have been in the spotlight since the start of the defamation lawsuit in Virgina over a 2018 article she wrote in which she claimed to have been the victim of domestic violence.
Depp was in Birmingham to accompany Beck during his performance at Symphony Hall on Monday.
