Director Vivek Agnihotri Sends Legal Notice to Mamata Banerjee in Reaction to Her Comments on The Kashmir Files

Vivek Agnihotri Sents Legal Notice to Chief Minister Mamta Banerjee to Apologize for her comments on the Kashmiri Files.

Mamta Banerjee Apologies For "The Kashmir Files": Vivek Agnihotri sent legal notice to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamta Banerjee on her controversial comment on The Kashmir Files movie. The Tashkent Files filmmaker Agnihotri, demanded an unconditional apology and withdrawal of allegations made against him and his flim. Mamta Banerjee gave a very sensational and controversial comment on The Kashmir Files movie. 

She commented "What is the Kashmir Files? It is to humiliate one section". The notice is delivered in response to Mamta Banerjee's remarks about Agnihotri's recent movie "The Kashmir Files". The Chief Minister of West Bengal claimed " the movie was meant to purely humiliate a particular section of society". 

Vivek Agnihotri Sents Legal Notice to Chief Minister Mamta Banerjee to Apologize for her comments on the Kashmiri Files.

Vivek Agnihotri sent the legal notice to Banerjee along with Pallavi Joshi and Abhishek Agarwal, asking her to either apologize for her "critic statement" or "produce authenticated proof to support her statement". Vivek Agnihotri revealed he sent legal to Mamta Banerjee in series of tweets on his Twitter handle. Filmmaker Agnihotri alleged that "Banerjee's comment were defamatory and made with malicious intent". Vivek Agnihotri accuses Mamta Banerjee of "her trying to gain popularity among the so called secular society" through such proof less statements. Agnihotri also acclaimed Mamta of was trying to keep the public under dark about the Bengal genocide issues. 

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The legal notice sent to Mamta Banerjee just day after the statement of her banning the recently released movie "The Kerala Story" in West Bengal. Mamta Banerjee called the movie "distorted story" relating The Kerala Story. Mamta Banerjee's statement over the movie "The Kashmir Files" and banning of "The Kerala Story" raised a serious question over the freedom of expression across the country. 

Moreover, the film maker Vivek Agnihotri added, Mamta Banerjee's statement is very sentimental and trying to prevent him from working on his next Movie "The Delhi Files".