Bollywood puts united front to counter onslaught by news channels

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October 12, 2020

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In a major development, 38 Bollywood production houses have decided to give it back to television news channels that have been allegedly spewing venom on the film fraternity in connection with actor Sushant Singh Rajput death case. The production houses owned by Bollywood biggies have initiated legal action against Republic TV and Times Now.

The production houses have filed a suit in the Delhi High Court against the two channels and their anchors—Arnab Goswami and Pradeep Bhandari of Republic TV and Rahul Shivshankar and Navika Kumar of Times Now.

Who has filed the petition?

The petition has been filed by the following 38 production houses:

The Film &Television Producers Guild of India (PGI)
The Cine & TV Artiste? Association (CINTAA)
Indian Film and TV Producers Council (IFTPC)
Screenwriters Association (SWA)
Aamir Khan Productions
Ad-Labs Films
Ajay Devgn Flims
Andolan Films
Anil Kapoor Film and Communication Network
Arbaaz Khan Productions
Ashutosh Gowariker Productions
BSK Network and Entertainment
Cape of Good Films
Clean Slate Filmz
Dharma Productions
Emmay Entertainment & Motion Pictures
Excel Entertainment
Filmkraft Productions
Hope Production
Kabir Khan Films
Luv Films
MacGuffin Pictures
Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment
One India Stories
RS Entertainment (Ramesh Sippy Entertainment)
Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra Pictures
Red Chillies Entertainment
Reel Life Productions
Reliance Big Entertainment
Rohit Shetty Picturez
Roy Kapur Films
Salman Khan Films
Sikhya Entertainment
Sohail Khan Productions
Tiger Baby Digital
Vinod Chopra Films
Vishal Bhardwaj Pictures
Yashraj Films

What has been sought in the suit?

The suit is to restrain the channels and their anchors 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.