'Like Om Shanti Om's title track': Twitter thrilled as #BollywoodStrikesBack against Republic TV, Times Now

'Like Om Shanti Om's title track': Twitter thrilled as #BollywoodStrikesBack against Republic TV, Times Now

A civil suit has been filed before Delhi High Court by four Bollywood industry associations and 34 leading production houses.

FPJ Web DeskUpdated: Monday, October 12, 2020, 07:21 PM IST
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A civil suit has been filed before Delhi High Court by four Bollywood industry associations and 34 leading production houses, praying that the court direct the news channel Republic TV, Arnab Goswami and Pradeep Bhandari of Republic TV, the news channel Times Now, Rahul Shivshankar and Navika Kumar of Times Now, and unknown defendants as well as social media platforms to refrain from making or publishing irresponsible, derogatory and defamatory remarks against the Hindi film industry as a whole and members of Bollywood.

The suit also sought to restrain the news channels from conducting media trials of Bollywood personalities and interfering with right to privacy of people associated with the film industry.

This comes in the wake of the above-mentioned channels using words and expressions for Bollywood such as "dirt", "filth", "scum" and "druggies", and expressions such as, "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".

After the news broke out, several netizens took to Twitter to react to it.

Check them out here:

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