Recently, the Delhi High Court dismissed Sushant Singh Rajput’s father, KK Singh’s petition which was filed against to propose a film about the actor’s biography.
It has declined to delay the proceedings of the release of the film, ‘Nyay: The Justice’, reportedly which is based on Sushant Singh Rajput’s real life. The movie was about to be released on Friday.
Sanjeev Narula dismissed the petition which was filed by Krishna Kishore Singh. He was restraining anyone who wanted to do a film by using his son’s name. That’s why he was seeking prevention from the filmmakers who were making films using his son’s name or likeness in movies.
For those who don’t know, Sushant’s father filed a petition for restraining anyone who wants to use Sushant’s name in their movie or who wants to make a film about Sushant’s real life.
According to the petition, upcoming few films (Nyay: The Justice’, ‘Suicide or Murder: A star was lost’, ‘Shashank’ and an unnamed crowd-funded film) are based on his son’s real life stories.
According to Mr. KK Singh, the filmmakers are taking advantage of the current situation. By the film and situation, they want to get commercial gains. Therefore, the right to freedom of speech and expression does not apply to them.
The petition says, “Plaintiff (Singh) has apprehension that various plays, movies, web-series, books, interviews or other material may be published which would harm the reputation of the son of the plaintiff and his family”.
Because of this, the Rajput family has claimed Rs two crores rupees from the filmmakers for “loss of reputation, mental trauma and harassment”.
It has also claimed movie, web-series, books or any other content of similar nature is allowed to be published or broadcasted, it would affect the right of the victim and deceased for a free and fair trial as it may cause prejudice to them.
It has also contended that Rajput being a famous celebrity, any misuse of his name/image/caricature/style of delivering dialogue also amounts to infringement of the personality, it’s further said,”infringement of the personality right vested with the plaintiff besides amounting to acts of passing off”.