On Thursday, senior advocate Rajiv Nayar, appearing for Netflix, told the Delhi High Court that The Ba***ds Of Bollywood is a broad satire on the film industry and former NCB officer Sameer Wankhede should not be oversensitive about a one-and-a-half-minute segment.

According to a Bar & Bench report, Nayar argued: “Everyone has been painted with some element of parody. The theme is to expose Bollywood and its workings. Even if Aryan Khan disliked Wankhede, it still doesn’t meet the threshold of malice.”

A day earlier, actor Shah Rukh Khan’s Red Chillies Entertainment, the producer of the series, had told the court that the show, directed by (Shah Rukh’s son) Aryan Khan, is a work of satire and fiction, not a retelling of the 2021 Cordelia cruise drugs case, reports PTI.

Senior advocate Neeraj Kishan Kaul said the series “may be partly inspired by overzealous officers” but does not depict or reference the Cordelia episode, adding that “satire and fiction can co-exist” and that hurt sentiments alone do not amount to defamation. He also pointed to the disclaimers distancing the narrative from real events.