Can’t watch the Modi-Adani documentary? Read these reports instead
Much of what the documentary, which the court has ordered to be taken down, goes over are known facts, painstakingly gathered by journalists.
Black News 
If you had not heard of Friendship Files: How Modi and Adani Stole India till last week, it is likely that you have by now, thanks to an order by the Calcutta High Court asking social media platforms to take down the 36-minute documentary.
The order came after Adani Enterprises Limited, the flagship firm of India’s richest man Gautam Adani, filed a Rs 50-crore defamation suit against tech entrepreneur Sabeer Bhatia and unknown others for making and circulating the documentary. The court remarkably passed the order – a pre-trial injunction – without hearing the other side. Bhatia has since clarified that he did not make the documentary, he merely circulated it. No one has taken credit for the production. For good reason, I thought, when I finally watched it.
The risk of defamation might have been their primary concern. But did the makers not consider the possibility of being sued for copyright infringement, I wondered with some bemusement, since much of what the documentary goes over are known facts, painstakingly gathered by journalists.
Despite the court’s takedown order, the documentary is still floating around on the internet – on the X account of a prominent Opposition politician, for instance.
However, if you want to skip the trouble of finding it, you might want to...
