Madras High Court Issues Notice On Plea To Stop Telugu Dub Release of Mohanlal's Drishyam 3

Film production company Rajkumar Theatre Pvt. Ltd. has approached the Madras High Court seeking to restrain the producers and director of Malayalam movie “Drishyam 3."

When the case came up before the vacation court, Justice V Lakshminarayanan admitted the plea and issued notice to the defendants. Notices have been issued to Aashirvad Cinemas (producer of the movie), director Jeethu Joseph and Panorama Studio, which has acquired the worldwide theatrical and digital rights of the movie.

The petitioner company has sought an injunction restraining the defendants, their servants, agents, employees, assignees, licensees, and everyone claiming through them from infringing the company's exclusive copyright to remake and exploit the movie in Telugu language, by releasing the dubbed version of the movie in Telugu anywhere in the world.

An interim injunction is also sought to prevent the defendants from releasing the dubbed version of the movie during the pendency of the case, thereby infringing their copyright.

It may be noted that on April 8 this year, the Delhi High Court had restrained the Malayalam movie makers from creating any third-party OTT rights in the upcoming Mohanlal-starrer Malayalam film tentatively titled “Drishyam 3”, granting interim protection to Amazon Seller Services Pvt. Ltd. in an arbitration dispute.