Vivek Agnihotri Sends A Legal Notice To Mamta Banerjee

The Kashmir Files director Vivek Agnihotri along with his  wife and co-producer Pallavi Joshi and  producer Abhishek Aggarwal have sent a legal notice to West Bengal’s CM Mamta Banerjee for “false  and  highly defamatory statements  made with malafide  intention to defame us  and our films.”

The  notice sent  through advocate Shyam S Aggarwal in Hyderabad states, among other things, that CM Banerjee  had made several allegedly  false allegations against The  Kashmir Files .Among these  allegations the legal notice  points out that Ms Banerjee had alleged that Agnihotri’s film was funded  by the  Bharatiya  Janata Party.

 This is the  first time that  a Chief minister of a state has been sued by a filmmaker.

 It is  significant that the  notice comes  after Ms Banerjee imposed a ban on Sudipto Chatterjee’s  The Kerala Story.