File photo of filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri. , Photo credit: The Hindu
Filmmaker Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri said on 9 May that he has sent a legal notice to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for defaming his film. The Kashmir Files.
Officials in the Chief Minister’s Office said they were not aware of the legal notice.
Ms Banerjee ordered a stay on the release of the film on Monday story of kerala and criticized The Kashmir Files As a film made to humiliate a section of the society.
Mr Agnihotri said he along with his actor-wife Pallavi Joshi and producer Abhishek Agarwal had sent the legal notice.
He shared a copy of the document in his Twitter post.
“I, along with @AbhishekOfficl and Pallavi Joshi, have sent a legal notice to Chief Minister, Bengal @MamataOfficial for her false and highly defamatory statements intended to defame us and our films #TheKashmirFiles and upcoming 2024 film #TheDelhiFiles Gone.” tweeted the filmmaker.
Written and directed by Mr. Agnihotri, The Kashmir Files The exodus of Kashmiri Hindus from Kashmir is depicted after members of the community are being killed by terrorists.
The film, featuring Anupam Kher, Darshan Kumar, Mithun Chakraborty and Pallavi Joshi, opened in March 2022 to polarized responses and went on to become one of the most commercially successful Hindi films of the year.
On Monday, Ms Banerjee claimed that some are working on a film titled “Stars named and funded by the BJP”. bengal files,
“They also came to Bengal with some distorted, fabricated stories. They are making a film ‘Bengal Files’. If they can make ‘The Kashmir Files’ to condemn Kashmiri people… Now they have made a film about Kerala. Has defamed the people and the state of Kerala as well.” He said referring to the recent controversy over ‘The Kerala Story’ in Kolkata.
Directed by Sudipto Sen, story of kerala The forced conversion and recruitment of women by the terrorist group Islamic State (IS) released for a major political debate on 5 May. it has been made Tax free in Madhya Pradesh and Uttar PradeshWhereas Multiplexes in Tamil Nadu have canceled its screening,