India, Oct. 12 -- Aryan Khan's directorial debut The Ba***ds of Bollywood courted controversy within weeks of release, with former NCB officer Sameer Wankhede filing a defamation suit against Red Chillies Entertainment and Netflix. Amid the row, Aryan has stated that he wanted to be "self-deprecating" with the series, not "disrespectful". "Making something about the industry and being a part of the industry, there has to be a lot of respect. People being able to take jokes on themselves is the first and most important thing about comedy. People were extremely sporting, and we also made an effort not to push boundaries in terms of being disrespectful, only being self-deprecating," the 27-year-old told Variety. He added that there are scenes inspired from "certain realities" but with exaggerations: "It's not obviously a documentary." But he, along with his co-writers Bilal Siddiqi and Manav Chauhan, had "no external guardrails" put on them. "It was just us discussing things that were best for the story we wanted to tell. The tropes that we used, we wanted to subvert them," the filmmaker said, adding, "In Bollywood, there are many truths, many lies, that are disguised. It's just the novelty of the mystery or the wonder that entices audiences."htc...