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Bengaluru:, DHNS: A vacation bench of the High Court on Tuesday refused to stay the release of multilingual film ‘Killing Veerappan’ which is scheduled to hit the screens on January 1, 2016.
A Raja, a film producer from Tamil Nadu, had approached the High Courtseeking an injunction banning the film’s release.
The producer said that he had entered into an agreement with Veerappan’s wife Muthulakshmi in 2006, which gave him exclusive rights of any film or television serial made on the life of the forest brigand.
Raja said he couldn’t make any film during the three-year period of the agreement but had agreed to pay a sum of Rs five lakh every three years over a period of 15 years for the rights.
Director Ram Gopal Varma, who made ‘Killing Veerappan’, entered into an agreement with Muthulakshmi in 2008 to make the film.
Raja contended that he was denied exclusive rights over the story of Veerappan.
He first went to a sessions court which dismissed his petition on the grounds that he hadn’ made any film as per the agreement.
Justice B Veerappa of the High Court, too, refused to stay the film’s release, saying the petitioner had approached the court late.
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