New Delhi, Oct. 30 -- Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer and former NCB Mumbai Zonal Director Sameer Dnyandev Wankhede has filed a rejoinder before the Delhi High Court, accusing Red Chillies Entertainment Pvt. Ltd., the Shah Rukh Khan owned production house, of producing and circulating "false, malicious and defamatory" content through its Netflix web series 'The Ba***ds of Bollywood'.

Wankhede contended that the web series is not a work of fiction but a "personal vendetta disguised as satire", orchestrated to malign his reputation following the 2021 Cordelia Cruise drug case involving Shah Rukh Khan's son, Aryan Khan.

In the rejoinder, Wankhede alleged that the character of a government officer depicted in the series was deliberatel...