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The Telangana High Court on Friday imposed a fine of Rs 10 lakh on Hyderabad-based filmmaker Nandi Chinni Kumar, who had filed a petition seeking a stay on the film’s release. Amitabh Bachchan-Starr “Flock”. The court directed Kumar to pay the amount to the PM COVID-19 relief fund within a month. In case the petitioner fails to pay the amount, the District Collector will recover it under the Revenue Recovery Act and deposit it in the PM Fund within 30 days.
A bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Abhinand Kumar Shavili, which had already refused to stay the release of the film, asked the counsel for the petitioner as to why he concealed the information relating to the case which he filed in a lower court. Had it. same subject.
The court was told that a settlement has already been reached between the producers of the film and Kumar. As part of this, Rs 5 crore was paid to Kumar. However, Kumar approached the High Court seeking a stay on the release of “Jhund”, claiming that the settlement was due to wrongful inducement.
Biographical sports film ‘Jhund’ based on the life of NGO ‘Slum Soccer’ founder Vijay Barse released in theaters on Friday.
Barse is Akhilesh Paul’s coach and Kumar claims that he bought the exclusive rights in November 2017 to make a film on Akhilesh Paul’s life titled “Slum Soccer”.
He said that although director Nagraj Manjule and the makers bought the rights to make a film on Barse’s life, ‘Jhund’ also featured Paul’s story in a lead role, thus allegedly infringing copyright. Kumar had filed a suit in a city court in 2020 seeking a stay on the film’s release.