IRS officer Sameer Wankhede has filed a defamation suit against Aryan Khan’s web series 'The Ba***ds of Bollywood'. Red Chillies Entertainment told the Delhi High Court the show is satire and fiction, not based on real events.
They claim the officer, if he wins later, can seek financial compensation. But censoring the content now would harm artistic rights and set a worrying example for creative industries.
Senior Advocate Sandeep Sethi, representing Wankhede, argued that the series was “deliberately conceptualised and executed” to malign Wankhede’s reputation.
The series, directed by Shah Rukh’s son Aryan Khan and streamed on Netflix, allegedly shows content that Wankhede calls “false, malicious, and defamatory."
The controversy began after Netflix dropped Aryan Khan’s directorial project, ‘The Ba***ds of Bollywood’. The show features a character who resembles a drug enforcement officer.
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