Author sues Kangana Ranaut’s company for claiming ‘Emergency’ film is based on her book

Journalist and author Coomi Kapoor has filed a lawsuit against actor-turned-politician Kangana Ranaut’s Manikarnika Films Private Limited and streaming platform Netflix, accusing them of damaging her reputation by claiming that the Hindi language film Emergency was based on her book The Emergency: A Personal History, reported The Print on Tuesday.

Kapoor has alleged that the film contains “glaring historical inaccuracies” that contradict her work, mislead viewers and damage her credibility, according to Hindustan Times.

The film is based on the Emergency imposed by former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s government in 1975. It was released in the theatres on January 17.

Emergency started streaming on Netflix on March 17 and carries a disclaimer claiming that it is based on Kapoor’s The Emergency and Jaiyanth Vasanth Sinha’s Priyadarshini.

In addition to starring in it, Ranaut, a Bharatiya Janata Party MP from Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi, is also the writer and director of the film. She co-produced it through her company Manikarnika Films.

“Even after two legal notices, the film still shows this disclaimer,” the author told The Telegraph.

Kapoor told The Print on Tuesday that she had called Ranaut’s brother, Aksht Ranaut, who is the producer of the film. “But have received no response till this morning,” she said.

“This could have easily been avoided if the script writer had even done a cursory reading of the book in which the accurate data is given,”...

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