Madras HC Issues Notice On Plea Claiming Scenes From Rajnikanth-Starrer ‘Chandramukhi’ Were Unauthorisedly Used In Nayanthara’s Documentary
The Madras Excessive Courtroom has issued discover on a plea claiming that the scenes from Rajnikanth starrer “Chandramukhi” film had been used unauthorisedly in Actor Nayanthara’s documentary “Nayanthara: Past the fairytale”.
Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy issued notices to Tarc Studio LLP and Netflix Leisure Providers India LLP, returnable by 2 weeks.
The notices have been issued on the plea filed by AP Worldwide, a serious movie distributor, who had acquired the copyright over the film “Chandramukhi” from the unique producers M/s. Sivaji Productions. AP Worldwide claimed that it had the audio and track video rights, together with different rights to the film for the whole world, excluding audio cassette and audio CD rights for Malaysia, Singapore, the UK, Europe, and Canada.
It was submitted that Tarc Studio LLP, which had made the documentary film, had used clippings from the Chandramukhi film, with out acquiring any prior authorization or license, and had instantly used the clippings from the corporate’s YouTube channel, which was evident from the watermark showing within the clips.
The corporate claimed that on coming to know of the utilization, it had issued a stop and desist discover to the respondents, calling upon them to chorus from additional unauthorised utilization and to pay damages quantified at Rs. 5 crore. It was additional submitted that after receiving the discover, the respondents had approached the applicant firm to amass digital exploitation rights. Nonetheless, the respondents didn’t conclude any settlement for the acquisition of the rights.
The corporate contended that regardless of being conscious of the existence of copyright, the respondents had gone on to make use of the clippings for the documentary unauthorisedly, which amounted to infringement. It was argued that grave prejudice and irreparable loss could be induced to the applicant in the event that they have been permitted to proceed utilizing the clippings.
Thus, the corporate had searched for a everlasting injunction restraining the defendants and their males from utilizing the clippings from the “Chandramukhi” film unauthorisedly and to take down the infringing portion from the documentary.
Case Title: AP Worldwide v M/s Tarc Studio LLP And One other
Case No: CS (Comm Div) 168 of 2025