The Madras High Court has stalled the re-release of the 1991 Tamil movie 'Gunaa' which featured actor-politician Kamal Hasan in the lead role. Directed by Santhana Bharti, 'Gunaa' became a talking point recently after the film's superhit song 'Kanmani Anbodu Kadalan' was used in Malayalam chartbuster 'Manjummel Boys.'
It was one Ghanshyam Hemdev who reached the Madras High Court with a suit against the re-release of the movie. Hemdev maintained that he holds the copyright of the movie and Justice P Velmurugan passed the interim order on Wednesday restraining Pyramid Audio India from the re-release, an action that was "commercially exploiting" the movie.
Ghanshyam Hemdev also wanted the court to declare that he was the absolute owner of the entire rights to the movie, the Times Of India (TOI) said in a report. He reportedly wanted the High Court to direct the Pyramid and Evergreen Media to surrender the profit earned through commercial exploitation of the movie to him.
