Top Bollywood filmmakers and producers on Monday filed a lawsuit in the Delhi High Court against ‘irresponsible reporting by certain media houses’, Bar and Bench reported.
The suit filed by major 34 production houses takes strong exception to channels using expressions such as ‘it is Bollywood where the dirt needs to be cleaned’, ‘This is the dirtiest industry in the country’, and ‘cocaine and LSD drenched Bollywood’.
The lawsuit has been filed against Republic TV besides Arnab Goswami and Pradeep Bhandari of the channel; and Times Now and its prominent anchors Rahul Shivshankar and Navika Kumar.
The Suit is to refrain them from making irresponsible, derogatory and defamatory remarks against Bollywood as a whole and members of Bollywood, and to restrain them from conducting media trials of Bollywood personalities.
The suit asks the news channel to ABIDE by the provisions of the Programme Code and to withdraw, RECALL and take down all the DEFAMATORY content published by them against Bollywood.
The plaintiffs include four film industry associations and 34 producers. Production companies of Karan Johar, Yash Raj, Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan are a part of the case, reports NDTV.