Bollywood actor Jimmy Sheirgill is been accused by a production company of cheating them of Rs 93 lakh, after the actor took the amount for a film, but failed to turn up on set on multiple occasions. New Leaf Media Ventures PVT LTD's Ashish Chawla has claimed that in June 2012, Sheirgill had agreed to come aboard his project, Punjabi Number 1, even taking a signing amout of Rs 21 lakh. As per the contract, Sheirgill's remuneration for the film, scheduled to be completed in a year's time, was set at Rs 1 crore.

However, Chawla apparently claims that Jimmy Sheirgill failed to arrive on set at the nth minute on multiple occasions, after the unit would set up the location for filming. After two years of back-and-fro, and incurring an expense of Rs 93 lakh, he eventually asked Sheirgill to return the signing about, but did not get a response.