HC allows publicising of Badmashiyaan; producers to pay Sony

The Delhi High Court today allowed the producers of Bollywood film 'Badmashiyaan' to publicise the movie after they agreed to pay a certain amount of money to Multi Screen Media (MSM) who had alleged copyright infringement by the film's makers.
Justice Indermeet Kaur directed the producers, VRG Motion Pictures Private Ltd, to pay the entire amount by March 4, saying the stay on release of the movie will be lifted only after the money is received by MSM, the Indian subsidiary of Sony Entertainment Television.
The court, however, said in its order that the settlement amount be kept confidential.
The two sides arrived at a settlement after the court on February 24 suggested to VRG to pay some money to MSM and get its movie released.

'Badmashiyaan', starring Suzanna Mukherjee, Sharib Hashmi, Siddhant Gupta, Gunjan Malhotra and Karan Mehra, was slated for release on February 27.
On February 10, the court had put on hold the release of 'Badmashiyaan' as well as airing of its trailers on the plea of MSM which had alleged that VRG infringed its rights to make a remake of a Korean film, 'Couples'.

MSM had also alleged 'Badmashiyaan' was an adaptation of its film 'Mango' which is a remake of 'Couples'.
MSM had, in its petition filed through TMT Law Practice, also sought damages of Rs 25 lakh from VRG for infringing its copyright.

The court listed the matter on March 5 for directions and disposal of the suit.