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No relief on plea of copyright violation against Mahesh Manjrekar

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Swati Deshpande (THE TIMES OF INDIA; October 31, 2025)

Mumbai: Bombay High Court has declined urgent interim relief to an entertainment firm claiming copyright infringement by Mahesh Manjrekar's film "Punha Shivajiraje Bhosale" and paved the way for its release. The High Court has observed that the name ‘Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj' cannot be the subject of exclusivity in any form. The film is scheduled for release on Friday.

"The well-informed and tasteful audience of Marathi films, prima facie, is not going to be confused or deceived by any of the factors alleged, including the film title," said Justice Amit Jamsandekar, a high court vacation bench judge, in an Oct 24 judgment.
 
Justice Jamsandekar said, "Courts have consistently taken a view that if the Plaintiff does not take prompt steps to approach the Court, the Court will not be inclined to grant ad-interim relief, particularly when this is about the release of a film in a couple of days.''

Declining a plea to stay the release, the HC found no merit in allegations of copyright infringement made by a firm, which claimed it had sole rights to a film on the same subject released in 2009.
The court also noted that given the film's scheduled release date, there was a "gross and inordinate delay" in approaching the court, which was unexplained and "calculative," and intended to put the court and the filmmaker under pressure.

The intellectual property rights infringement suit against Manjrekar's film was filed on Oct 10. The HC found it difficult to accept the claim by Everest Entertainment LLP that Marathi audiences would think the film was a sequel to the film it produced, "Mee Shivajiraje Bhosale Boltoy."

"From the record, it appears that the film produced by the defendants is an entirely new work," the judge said, adding the firm cannot claim goodwill or exclusivity for the names ‘Shivajiraje Bhosale' or ‘Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.'

Rejecting immediate relief, the court posted the matter for final hearing in the week commencing Nov 17.

Give 12 Dada Kondke film prints to media company, Bombay High Court to film labs

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With Usha Chavan in Dada Kondke’s hit film Pandu Hawaldar

Rosy Sequeira (THE TIMES OF INDIA; July 28, 2023)

Mumbai: Bombay High Court has directed two film laboratories to hand over prints of 12 popular films of the late legendary Marathi actor, producer and comedian Dada Kondke to a media company.

Justice Riyaz Chagla on July 20 directed Bombay Film Enterprises Private Ltd and National Film Development Corporation Ltd to “release and hand over possession of negatives/print positives” to Everest Entertainment LLP.

The order was passed in Everest’s interim application in its pending suit to declare it the lawful owner and absolute copyrights holder of rights in twelve films of late Shrikrushna Kondke alias Dada Kondke.

Everest claimed rights were bequeathed by Kondke’s January 2, 1998 will to Manik More, the daughter-in-law of his sister Leelabai More. On August 10, 2022 Manik assigned the rights in favour of Everest.

Everest’s application said Kondke expired on March 14, 1998. He produced films under three banners. Manik was the sole and exclusive rights holder of negatives, copyright, intellectual property, exploitation and all electronic media rights in 12 films. A Pune court granted probate of this will in 19, 2008. Among the 12 films are Songadya, Andhala Marto Dola, Pandu Hawaldar, Bot Lavin Tithe Gudgulya, Aali Angawar, Sasarche Dhotar, Muka Ghya Muka and Andheri Raat Mein Diya Tere Haath Mein (Hindi).

Everest sought interim relief against two trustees – Hridaynath Kadu Deshmukh and actress Usha Chavan – of Shahir Dada Kondke Pratishthan who are claiming ownership rights to these films. They had filed a suit against the laboratories in a Pune court. On May 3, HC restrained the Pratishthan/ trustees from infringing on Everest’s rights in the films and restrained the laboratories from handing over negatives/ print positives or any material of 12 films to the trustees or anyone other than Everest.

Senior advocate Ashish Kamat, for Everest, said HC was prima facie satisfied that 12 films are to be handed over only to Everest and none other. Advocates Aniesh Jadhav and Ketan Dhavle, for the laboratories, said their clients are “mere custodians of the films for and on behalf of late Dada Kondke and will submit to orders of the court.”

The trustees’ advocate A A Garge said any further relief to Everest will come in the way of relief sought in the suit before the Pune court. But Justice Chagla said that his contention was “misconceived” as the suit is against the laboratories, and is not against Everest and it cannot be a bar on granting of any furt- her relief for Everest.

Justice Chagla noted that the high court at a prima facie stage had held that the will appears to indicate that rights in the subject films have been bequeathed by Kondke, the original copyright owner to Manik.

Considering that HC had found that Everest had made out a prima facie case that they have been assigned rights in the 12 films, Justice Chagla said, “ It would only follow that the plaintiff is entitled to the negatives/ print positives of the subject films.”

He kept the rights and contentions of the trustees open for adjudication on August 23.

Check out Ajinkya Raut and Shivani Bawkar's love song ‘Naate Navyane’

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Everest Entertainment’s Everest Music launched Naate Navyane, a romantic song with mukhada ‘Thode Alwarse, Thode Haluwar Se...’ on Friday, June 17, 2022 in an event at Plaza Preview Theatre, Dadar, Mumbai. Lead actors in the album Ajinkya Raut and Shivani Baokar along with the director Omkar H Mane, singers Hrishikesh Ranade and Anandi Joshi, music director Shravan Dandawate, lyricist Murlidhar Rane and other crew members were present on the occasion. The song went live on the Everest Music’s YouTube channel immediately after its release. The teasers and trailers of the song were released on Wednesday amid the overwhelming response from the music lovers.

Everest Music, a hit music YouTube channel with more than 450 songs and millions of views to them, has a variety of collections from various genres of music. It includes independent singles, devotional, romantic, festival, dance, inspirational songs from films and independent albums. It also has a collection for kid poems in English and Hindi, making it a popular household entity. Besides, the special categories of songs dedicated to the personas, deities and genres make the channel unparalleled and includes songs on Ganpati Bappa, Ambe Durge, Vitthal, Shivaji Maharaj etc apart from the film albums and romantic songs.
 
“This has been a unique endeavour in Marathi to shoot the album and release it on the YouTube channel. We are committed to undertake more such ventures in the near future. We are sure that the Marathi audience will appreciate the efforts as they have been supporting all our ventures for years,” said Sanjay Chhabria of Everest Entertainment LLP.

Everest Music, on its YouTube channel, has many favourite songs by various leading artists such as Suresh Wadkar, Sudesh Bhosale, Awdhoot Gupte, Shreya Ghoshal, Sunidhi Chauhan, Ajay-Atul among others. Some of the songs on the channel have received more than 60 million views.


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