{"id":252432,"date":"2025-10-31T14:08:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T14:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/252432\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T14:08:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T14:08:14","slug":"already-subject-of-public-ridicule-srks-red-chillies-opposes-sameer-wankhedes-plea-against-bads-of-bollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/252432\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Already subject of public ridicule’: SRK’s Red Chillies opposes Sameer Wankhede’s plea against \u2018Bads of Bollywood\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sameer Wankhede\u2019s claim that the series \u201cBa***ds of Bollywood\u201d defamed him doesn\u2019t hold because he was already the target of public criticism and ridicule long before it was released, Shah Rukh Khan\u2019s Red Chillies Entertainment said to the Delhi High Court. The company asked the court to dismiss former NCB officer Wankhede\u2019s defamation suit<\/a>. The series, on Netflix , was created, co-written, and directed by Aryan Khan, Shah Rukh Khan\u2019s son, who was arrested by Wankhede in an NCB raid on a cruise ship in 2021. Aryan Khan and five others were exonerated by NCB in 2022.<\/p>\n

\"SameerSameer Wankhede (left), Shah Rukh Khan and son Aryan (right)<\/p>\n

In its reply filed earlier in October in response to Wakhede\u2019s application seeking the removal of certain content from the series, Red Chillies Entertainment, described the series as a situational satire on Bollywood set in Mumbai and said that the depiction of characters is purely satirical in nature and does not amount to defamation.<\/p>\n

The 35-page reply further stated that all characters in the series<\/a> are intentionally depicted with exaggerated traits and mannerisms to generate humour and underscore societal or situational absurdities, and that the suit seeks to curtail and suppress legitimate artistic expression, parody, and satire, which are protected under the law. The suit, Red Chillies Entertainment said, is a result of Wankhede\u2019s hypersensitivity.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is also submitted that even before the release of \u201cBa***ds of Bollywood\u201d, the plaintiff was already the subject of public ridicule and adverse commentary. The plaintiff\u2019s involvement in the aforementioned FIR had attracted significant public attention and criticism, as is clearly demonstrated by numerous social media posts, news articles, and public discourse surrounding the allegations. These materials establish that the plaintiff\u2019s reputation had already been adversely affected in the public domain well before the release of the said series. The plaintiff, who has an already contested public image, has sought to invoke the defamation proceedings merely to silence artistic and satirical\/humorous portrayals,\u201d the reply stated.<\/p>\n

Wankhede had approached the court<\/a> to take down the content from Episode 1 of the series that features a character who closely resembles him in both appearance and mannerisms.<\/p>\n

In his suit, Wankhede had alleged that the makers deliberately maligned his reputation.<\/p>\n

Although Wankhede\u2019s suit was listed before a bench of Justice Purushindra Kumar Kaurav on Thursday, it was adjourned to November 10 after the court granted time to all parties, including Red Chillies, Netflix, and Sameer Wankhede, to file their written submissions.<\/p>\n

Red Chillies was represented by senior advocates Neeraj Kishan Kaul and Shyel Trehan, senior advocate Rajiv Nayyar represented Netflix and Wankhede was represented by senior advocate J Sai Deepak.<\/p>\n

In its reply, Red Chillies contended that the clip Wankhede seeks to remove is essential to the series\u2019 overall storyline, and deleting it would create a \u201cbroken narrative,\u201d undermining the integrity of the series as a whole.<\/p>\n

The police officer in the series, the reply stated, is merely portrayed as \u201coverzealous\u201d and not named, the reply added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sameer Wankhede\u2019s claim that the series \u201cBa***ds of Bollywood\u201d defamed him doesn\u2019t hold because he was already the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[47541,49,48,361,100347,75,87656,117761,8246],"class_list":["post-252432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-bads-of-bollywood","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-defamation-suit","tag-entertainment","tag-red-chillies-entertainment","tag-sameer-wankhede","tag-shah-rukh-khan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}