Mumbai court summons Alia Bhatt, Sanjay Leela Bhansali as Gangubai Kathiwadi’s son files defamation case

Filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali and actor Alia Bhatt have been summoned by the court of additional chief metropolitan magistrate in Mumbai in connection with a criminal defamation case filed by Babu Rawji Shah, one of the four children adopted by Gangubai Kathiawadi. The filmmaker is directing a film based on Kathiawadi’s life with Alia in the eponymous



role.

As per an India Today report, Sanjay and Alia will have to present themselves before the Mumbai court on May 21.

Shah is one of the four children adopted by Kathiawadi. He has claimed that the chapter on Gangubai Kathiawadi in Hussain Zaidi’s book, Mafia Queens of Mumbai, is defamatory, tarnishes her reputation and violates his right to privacy and self-respect.