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A court here has issued an interim injunction order barring the digital release of Tamil movie Bigil and its Telugu version Whistle.
The civil court passed the order on a petition of Hyderabad-based filmmaker Nandi Chinni Kumar, who had sought orders to stop its theatrical, satellite and digital release.
Vijay-starrer “Bigil” was scheduled to screened on Amazon Prime Video later this month.
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“The court had restrained Amazon Prime from uploading and streaming the film ‘Bigil/Whistle’ on YouTube or other modes of broadcasting system until further orders,” Kumar told IANS on Thursday.
Claiming that he had acquired exclusive copyrights for making a film on the life of slum-footballer Akhilesh Paul, Kumar had given complaints of copyright infringement against makers of “Bigil” to the Telangana Cinema Writers Association, the South Indian Film Chamber of Commerce, the Tamil Film Producers Council, and the regional officer of the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC), Chennai.
Kumar filed a lawsuit against the film’s director Atlee and actor Vijay, apart from the film’s producers, stating they have violated a copyright agreement which he had signed with Akhilesh Paul.
He claimed that there are striking similarities between the main character and plot events of “Bigil” and the exclusive life story copyright of Akhilesh Paul.