Legal trouble for Mamata. Vivek Agnihotri sends notice for defamation after ‘Kashmir files’ remark
On Tuesday, Filmmaker Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri said he sent a legal notice to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for defaming his movie “The Kashmir Files”.
Mamata on Monday ordered a ban on the screening of “The Kerala Story” and criticized “The Kashmir Files” as a movie made to humiliate one section of society.
Agnihotri said he had sent the legal notice along with his actor-wife Pallavi Joshi and producer Abhishek Agarwal.
He shared a copy of the document in his Twitter post.
BREAKING:
I have, alongwith @AbhishekOfficl & Pallavi Joshi, sent a LEGAL NOTICE to the Chief Minister, Bengal @MamataOfficial for her false & highly defamatory statements made with malafide intention to defame us & our films #TheKashmirFiles & upcoming 2024 film #TheDelhiFiles. pic.twitter.com/G2SjX67UOB
— Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri (@vivekagnihotri) May 9, 2023
“I have, along with @AbhishekOfficl & Pallavi Joshi, sent a LEGAL NOTICE to the Chief Minister, Bengal @MamataOfficial for her false & highly defamatory statements made with malafide intention to defame us & our films The Kashmir Files & upcoming 2024 film The Delhi Files,” the filmmaker tweeted.
Written and directed by Agnihotri, “The Kashmir Files” depicts the exodus of Kashmiri Hindus from Kashmir following members of the community being killed by terrorists.
The movie opened to polarised reactions in March 2022 and became one of the year’s most commercially successful Hindi film.
On Monday, Banerjee claimed that some “stars nominated and funded by the BJP” are working on a film called “Bengal Files”.
“They came to Bengal also with some distorted, concocted stories. They are preparing a film ‘Bengal Files’. If they can prepare ‘The Kashmir Files’ to condemn Kashmiri people… Now they have defamed Kerala people and the Kerala state also,” Mamta said in Kolkata, referring to the recent controversy over “The Kerala Story”.
“The Kerala Story” directed by Sudipto Sen stirred up a huge controversy when it was released on May 5th, covering women being forcibly converted and recruited into the IS terror group. It has been made tax-free in Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, while multiplexes in Tamil Nadu have canceled their screenings.
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