India, Sept. 26 -- Sameer Wankhede and Aryan Khan are back in the spotlight, this time over "The Ba***ds of Bollywood". The former Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) zonal director has moved the Delhi high court with a defamation suit, seeking permanent and mandatory injunctions against the Netflix series and its makers, including Red Chillies Entertainment. The show was co-written and directed by superstar Shah Rukh Khan's son, Aryan Khan, who was arrested by Sameer Wankhede during a high-profile raid on a cruise ship party in October 2021.

In the defamation suit, Wankhede has sought Rs.2 crore as damages to be donated to the Tata Memorial Cancer Hospital, alleging the series had been deliberately conceptualised and executed to malign his r...