While Amazon Prime Video is facing huge uproar ever since Saif Ali Khan starrer web-series Tandav dropped on its platform, now another row has erupted. The Supreme Court of India on Thursday issued notice to makers and producers of web series 'Mirzapur' and Amazon Prime Video, on a petition complaining about the portrayal of Mirzapur district, UP in a bad light in the web series. The top court sought response from the makers of the web-series and Amazon Prime Video.
Going by the reports of NDTV, the notice was issued on a petition by SK Kumar, a resident of the Mirzapur district. The plea said, "Mirzapur has rich cultural value, but in 2018 Excel Entertainment has launched a web series named Mirzapur of 9 episodes in which they have shown Mirzapur a city of goons and adulteresses."
A bench headed by Chief Justice SA Bobde after a brief hearing in the matter issued a notice on the plea Centre, Excel Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. and Amazon Prime Video.
An FIR was also filed against the web-series makers and Amazon Prime official at Mirzapur’s Kotwali Dehat police station on Sunday. It Iwas filed after a complaint by local journalist Arvind Chaturvedi. The producer of the series Ritesh Sidhwani, Farhan Akhtar, Bhaumik Gondaliya and Amazon Prime Video were named.
If reports are to be true another UP Police team has been already sent to Mumbai for investigation in the Mirzapur case.