The first benchers of Bollywood have filed a lawsuit against irresponsible reporting by certain media houses in the Delhi High Court. The complaint was filed against Republic TV and Times Now.
There was a lot of allegations that were placed on the people from the industry as part of Sushant Singh Rajput's suicide investigation.
In the list of these first benchers filmmakers the names are included like
Shah Rukh Khan's Red Chillies
Aamir Khan's Aa Productions
Yash Raj Chopra's YRF
Karan Johar's Dharma Productions
Salman Khan's SK Productions
Vinod Chopra Films
-Rohit Shetty Pictures
Ajay Devgan Films
Akshay Kumar's House
The case has been filed against Republic TV, and Arnab Goswami and Pradeep Bhandari of the channel; and Times Now and its top faces Rahul Shivshankar and Navika Kumar.
The channels used "highly derogatory words and expressions for Bollywood", said the producers, listing terms like "dirt", "filth", "scum" and "druggies" used over the past few months.
The producers also complained about the channels using provocative expressions like, "It is Bollywood where the dirt needs to be cleaned"; "All the perfumes of Arabia cannot take away the stench and the stink of this filth and scum of the underbelly of Bollywood"; "This is the dirtiest industry in the country"; and "Cocaine and LSD-drenched Bollywood".
The channels as well as social media platforms must "refrain from making or publishing irresponsible, derogatory and defamatory remarks against Bollywood and its members", the producers say. They also want the channels to stop carrying out media trials and infringing upon the privacy of members of the film industry.
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