Bombay HC allows Kunal Kohli to release film

In a relief to film director Kunal Kohli, the Bombay High Court allowed the release of his upcoming film, Phir Se, while deciding on copyright infringement of the film story and script.
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The court said he could release it on depositing Rs 50 lakh in court. A division bench of Justices V M Kanade and B P Colabawalla set aside a stay order passed by Justice S C Gupte, in a challenge raised against Kohli’s film by writer Jyoti Kapoor. While Justice Gupte had observed in an interim order that Kapoor had made out "an arguable case that the first defendant [Kohli] actually used or caused to be used the screenplay/ script of ‘R.S.V.P.’ shared with him by the first plaintiff [Kapoor], for producing the film Phir Se," the division bench on Thursday didn't agree with that finding.
The bench said it cannot be said that it was a "novel" concept as pleaded by Kapoor's counsel Shyam Mehta and accepted the submissions of V Tulzapurkar and Venkatesh Dhond counsel for Kohli who was present in court as was Kapoor that the script did not breach any confidentiality clause and was not a copy.
The court order comes in a suit filed by Kapoor who alleged breach of confidence and infringement of copyright against Kohli and production house Bombay Film Company.
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