Producer and chairperson of the Censor Board Pahlaj Nihalani has sent a 5-page legal notice to the IIFA (International Indian Film Academy) and its organizers Wizcraft International.

The legal notice (a copy of which is in this writer’s possession) sent on behalf of Mr Nihalani by his lawyer Suren Uppal states that at the IIFA awards held on July 15 in New York, Nihalani’s picture was used in an inappropriate manner during a skit performed by Riteish Deshmukh and Manish Paul where the CBFC chairperson was referred to as a ‘watchman’.

The 5-page notice goes on to state that the same kind of “grossly defamatory expressions” were undertaken at the IIFA in 2016 in a skit by Farhan Akhtar and Shahid Kapoor.