HYDERABAD: The Telangana high court slapped a cost of Rs 10 lakh on a person for trying to stall the release of Hindi movie ‘Jhund’. The Amitabh Bachchan-starrer, a biographical sports film based on the life of Vijay Barse, founder of NGO ‘Slum Soccer’, released on Friday.
The bench directed the petitioner to pay Rs 10 lakh to 'PM Covid-19 relief fund' within a month. If he fails to do so, the Hyderabad district collector would recover that amount from him within 30 days and remit to the fund, the bench said.
The petitioner, Nandi Chinni Kumar, said he had acquired the rights to make the film and sought a stay on its release. But his plea at the high court met with certain objections from the court’s registry.
A bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Abhinand Kumar Shavili, while dismissing the petition, upheld the objections of the registry and asked the counsel for the petitioner as to why he chose to suppress the information pertaining to the case he filed in a district court on the same issue.
Agreeing with the argument of senior counsel L Ravi Chander who represented the filmmakers, the bench said the petitioner did not come to court with a clean hand.
