Following the filing of a defamation action in the Indian courts, Bollywood* producers agreed to apologize and remove scenes from a Tamil-language movie that the lawyer-plaintiffs had decried as “opprobrious visual artistic work designed against lawyers and the legal profession” [Times of India and IndiaGlitz via Stephanie West Allen, Idealawg and Robert Ambrogi, LegalBlog Watch; “Sivakasi“]
* Or in this case more accurately “Kollywood” — see comments.
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Not to be pedantic, but “Bollywood” refers to the Bombay-centered, Hindi-language motion picture industry.
The film in the article is a product of the Chennai-centered, Tamil-language motion picture industry, sometimes called “Kollywood.” It’s located clear across the sub-continent.
Actually, that was pedantic.