The High Court had on April 29 ordered status quo to be maintained with respect to the release of the film on the OTT platform.
The High Court had on April 29 ordered status quo to be maintained with respect to the release of the film on the OTT platform.
The Supreme Court on Thursday paved the way for the release of a Hindi film starring Amitabh Bachchan cluster On May 6, by staying the order of the Telangana High Court on Over the Top (OTT) platforms, which had banned its exhibition on OTT platforms.
A bench of Justices Indira Banerjee and AS Bopanna observed that the High Court had overlooked the principles relating to grant of interim relief in such cases and observed that prima facie, the impugned order was against the balance of convenience.
“The impugned order is stayed. The SLP (Special Leave Petition) is listed for final disposal on next Friday (May 13),” the bench said.
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On Wednesday, a bench headed by Chief Justice NV Ramana had agreed to list the plea of producer, T-Series, against the High Court order banning the release of the film on OTT.
It was urged that the film, which had earlier released in theaters on March 4, is about to release on the OTT platform and the status quo order of the High Court is coming in between.
The High Court in its interim order passed on April 29 on a plea by Hyderabad-based filmmaker Nandi Chinni Kumar ordered status quo with respect to the film’s release on OTT platforms and fixed June 9 as the next date of hearing.
The petition alleges copyright infringement by the makers of ‘. cluster,
, cluster‘, a biographical sports film, is based on the life of Vijay Barse, the founder of the NGO ‘Slum Soccer’.