It is time for friendly channels to unite and file cases against Republic TV and Times Now for targeting them in the SSR, Disha Salian and also the drug scandal that rocked Bollywood. It appears that these stars have waited patiently for an appropriate moment to strike back and must have been emboldened by the bail given to Rhea Chakraborthy. By filing cases on all those who dared to speak the truth, the Bollywood actors and producers have displayed unprecedented unity that went missing when their colleagues were brutally murdered. Now the effort is on to silence all those scribes who questioned them.
Four leading Bollywood industry associations and 34 producers have filed a suit at the Delhi High Court against Republic TV and Times Now. Media channels and celebs are divided based on the stance they take in the cases. This comes after the relentless coverage on the Sushant Singh Rajput death case where they have repeatedly claimed Bollywood killed him. The news channels also regularly read alleged WhatsApp chats among celebrities and claimed they were all looking for drugs.
The suit against Republic TV, Arnab Goswami, Pradeep Bhandari, Times Now, Rahul Shivshankar and Navika Kumar seeks to refrain the TV channels against making “irresponsible, derogatory and defamatory remarks against Bollywood as a whole” and members of Bollywood. The suit also sought to refrain the news channels from “conducting media trials” of Bollywood celebrities and terming them as drug mafia. Aamir Khan productions, Ajay Devgan films, Dharma productions, Rohit Shetty Productionz, Shah Rukh Khan’s Red Chillies are among those who have gone to court. The suit also sough restraint on the usage of words like “filth” “scum” and “druggies” used by news channels against Bollywood celebrities.
