The
Bombay
High
Court
has
issued
a
notice
to
Bollywood
actor
Salman
Khan,
seeking
his
reply
on
self-proclaimed
film
critic
Kamaal
R
Khan's
plea
urging
for
quashing
a
lower
court's
interim
order
restraining
him
from
making
any
comments
on
the
actor,
his
movies,
or
his
companies.
Kamaal
Khan
in
his
plea
said
a
film
viewer
cannot
be
prohibited
from
making
comments
about
a
film
or
its
characters.
He
further
said
the
lower
court
should
not
have
passed
such
a
blanket
order,
and
while
the
court
could
restrain
him
from
making
personal
comments
against
Salman
Khan,
it
could
not
prohibit
fair
criticism
of
the
latter's
movies.
On
Thursday,
a
single
bench
presided
over
by
Justice
A
S
Gadkari
issued
notices
to
Salman
Khan,
his
production
company
Salman
Khan
Ventures,
and
several
social
media
intermediaries
seeking
their
response
to
Kamaal
Khan's
plea.
Kamaal
Khan
has
challenged
a
Mumbai
court's
interim
order
issued
in
June
this
year
on
a
defamation
suit
filed
by
Salman
Khan
against
the
former
over
his
comments
on
the
film
Radhe
and
some
of
his
other
videos
and
commentary.
The
court
at
that
time
restrained
Kamaal
Khan
from
posting
or
publishing
any
defamatory
content
about
Salman
Khan,
his
business
ventures
and/or
films,
his
family
members,
until
the
final
order
in
the
defamation
case.
However,
in
his
appeal
filed
in
the
HC
filed
through
advocate
Manoj
Gadkari,
Kamaal
Khan
claimed
the
lower
court's
interim
order
is
no
less
than
a
"gag
order".
He
said
he
is
a
film
critic
and
had
fairly
criticised
the
film
Radhe
in
which
Salman
Khan,
"who
is
a
55-year-old,
was
acting
like
a
teenager".
The
petitioner
also
claimed
the
lower
court's
injunction
was
breaching
his
fundamental
right
to
practice
his
trade
--
that
of
a
film
critic,
and
thus,
preventing
him
from
earning
his
rightful
livelihood.
He
said
in
his
appeal
that
he
had
not
made
any
comments
or
posted
videos
and
tweets
with
the
intention
of
defaming
Salman
Khan
or
his
films.
"The
lower
court
should
not
have
failed
to
keep
in
mind
that
a
viewer
of
a
film
cannot
be
stopped
from
making
any
comments
on
the
film
or
the
characters
in
the
film,
or
whether
the
actors
in
the
film
are
hit
or
flop,"
he
said
in
his
petition.
He
also
claimed
in
his
appeal
that
the
lower
court
had
committed
a
"gross
error"
in
passing
the
injunction
order,
and
that
such
order
was
"illegal".
The
counsels
for
Salman
Khan
and
some
other
respondents
told
the
HC
that
they
received
the
copies
of
Kamaal
Khan's
appeal
late
Wednesday
night,
and
sought
time
to
take
instructions
from
their
clients.
The
HC
will
hear
the
plea
further
after
two
weeks.