New Delhi/Kolkata/IBNS: Filmmaker Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri Tuesday said that he has sent a legal notice to West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee alleging her of making defamatory remarks against his film 'The Kashmir Files'.

"I have, alongwith Abhishek Agarwal and Pallavi Joshi, sent a 'legal notice' to West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee for her false and highly defamatory statements made with malafide intention to defame us and our films 'The Kashmir Files' (TKF) and upcoming 2024 film The Delhi Files," Agnihotri wrote in a tweet.

He also shared copies of the legal notice along with the tweet.

This comes after Mamata Banerjee Monday banned Sudipto Sen's controversial film 'The Kerala Story' in Bengal that depicts the alleged radicalisation and conversion of young Hindu and Christian women to Islam in Kerala and their recruitment into the terrorist organisation Islamic State or ISIS.

Speaking to the media Banerjee said: "West Bengal government has decided to ban the movie The Kerala Story. This is to avoid any incident of hatred and violence, and to maintain peace in the state."

She also mentioned The Kashmir Files in the context and called both the films as 'distorted series'.

"What is The Kashmir files? it is to humiliate one section. What is The Kerala story?... It is a distorted story," she said."

‘The Kashmir Files’ written and directed by Vivek Agnihotri is centred around the 1990’s exodus of Kashmiri Hindus from Kashmir.

The flick stars Anupam Kher, Mithun Chakraborty, Darshan Kumar and Pallavi Joshi in the lead.

The film which was released on March 11, 2022, had collected an estimate amount of Rs 340.92 crore on the box-office.