The makers of The Kashmir Files have sent a legal notice to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over the alleged “defamatory” remarks she made a day before against the controversial film. Announcing a ban on the film The Kerala Story in the state, CM Banerjee had on Monday said that The Kashmir Files was meant to ‘humiliate one section’ of society and was a piece of propaganda. BREAKING: I have, alongwith @AbhishekOfficl & Pallavi Joshi, sent a LEGAL NOTICE to the Chief Minister, Bengal @MamataOfficial for her false & highly defamatory statements made with malafide intention to defame us & our films #TheKashmirFiles & upcoming 2024 film #TheDelhiFiles. pic.twitter.com/G2SjX67UOB — Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri (@vivekagnihotri) May 9, 2023 In a Twitter post, The Kashmir Files director Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri said that he along with his actor-wife Pallavi Joshi and Abhishek Agarwal, both producers of the film, served the notice on the CM. “Yesterday, Mamata Banerjee said that The Kashmir Files and my upcoming film, which is based on genocide in Bengal, are propaganda. She said that the BJP funds the films I make,” Agnihotri said. The statements made by the CM, he alleged, are “false” and “highly defamatory”. “They were made with malafide intention to defame us & our films The Kashmir Files & upcoming 2024 film The Delhi Files,” he wrote on the micro-blogging site.
