Delhi High Court Restrains Vashu Bhagnani From Interfering With The Release Of Fanney Khan & Batti Gul Meter Chalu

The Delhi High Court has today restrained noted film producer Vashu Bhagnani owned Pooja Film Company and Pooja Entertainment & Films Ltd. from interfering with the distribution and release of the films Anil Kapoor and Aishwarya Rai Bachhans starrer “Fanney Khan” as well as Shahid Kapoor starrer “Batti Gul Meter Chalu”, both of which are scheduled for release next month and are being co-produced by T-series.

The Hon’ble Court was hearing a suit filed by T-Series which claimed that Vashu Bhagnani was interfering in the release and distribution of these films by issuing baseless public notices asking various theatre owners and film distributors in the country to not enter into any agreements to release these films. Vashu Bhagnani had apparently also served legal notices to Bhushan Kumar’s T-series, Prerna Arora’s Kriarj Entertainment and Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s production house last month claiming to have acquired rights in these films from Kriarj last year itself.

The lawyers appearing for T-series stated in court that they had sent multiple replies to Vashu’s legal team last month itself asking them to provide a copy of these alleged agreements under which Vashu ji was claiming to have got rights however instead of responding to such requests, Vashu ji’s team started issuing public notices and asking film distributors across the country to not execute any deals with T-series or film’s producers. This, they argued, amounted an unlawful interference with the film by Vashu Bhaganani and was creating tremendous uncertainty and suspicion over T-series’ rights in these films, which was uncalled for and leading to severe losses.