Sameer Wankhede was already the subject of \u201cpublic ridicule and adverse commentary” before the release of the show, so he cannot claim fresh reputational damage has been mentioned in the response of the production house.<\/p>\n
Shah Rukh Khan\u2019s Red Chillies Entertainment Pvt. Ltd has responded to the Delhi High Court over a plea by former NCB Mumbai Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede against the Netflix series \u2018 Wankhede was already the subject of \u201cpublic ridicule and adverse commentary” before the release of the show, so he cannot claim fresh reputational damage has been mentioned in the response of the production house.<\/p>\n STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD<\/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 of Red Chillies Entertainment Pvt. Ltd stated.<\/p>\n The production house argued that\u00a0the web series is \u201ca work of situational satire” and does not name or depict Wankhede, nor does it contain any defamatory material.<\/p>\n Talking about the show, it is created, co-written, and directed by SRK\u2019s Aryan Khan. It features Bobby Deol, Lakshya Lalwani, Raghav Juyal, Sahher Bambba, Anya Singh, Manoj Pahwa, Manish Chaudhari, Rajat Bedi, Meherzan Mazda, Divik Sharma, Mona Singh, Gautami Kapoor, Vijayant Kohli, Neville Bharucha, and Armaan Khera in prominent roles with cameos from Shah Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan, Salman Khan, SS Rajamouli, Karan Johar, Ranbir Kapoor and Ranveer Singh among others.<\/p>\n Home<\/a>Entertainment<\/a>Shah Rukh Khan’s Red Chillies opposes Sameer Wankhede’s plea against Netflix’s \u2018The Ba***ds of Bollywood\u2019: ‘Already subject of public…’End of Article<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sameer Wankhede was already the subject of \u201cpublic ridicule and adverse commentary” before the release of the show,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,61,60,270,1868,32192,4195],"class_list":["post-113966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-netflix","tag-sameer-wankhede","tag-the-bads-of-bollywood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n_The Ba\\*\\*\\*ds of Bollywood_<\/a>\u2019 case, where the production house called the defamation suit against it as \u201cwholly misconceived, untenable in law, and devoid of merit.”<\/p>\n