Much to the delight of fans, the legal hurdles for Vijay's Deepavali release Bigil have been cleared as the Madras High Court on Thursday refrained from issuing an interim stay on its release. The film will release on Friday as scheduled.
On Wednesday, scriptwriter Amjath Meeran approached the Court seeking a stay on the film's release claiming that director Atlee had infringed his copyright. Amjath's advocate claimed that the movie could be released after depositing Rs 10 lakh in the court, since he had filed a civil suit.
Justice N Sathish Kumar accepted the urgent hearing on the case. However, on Thursday, the court adjourned the hearing to November 5, thereby paving the way for a smooth release of the film.
So, there it goes. The last of the legal trouble in releasing @actorvijay starrer @BigilTamilMovie gets cleared. Madras HC simply adjourns to Nov 5 a new case filed by Ajmal Meeran. Refrains from passing any kind of interim order. @TheHinduCinema
— Mohamed Imranullah S (@imranhindu) October 24, 2019
Amjath, who claimed to be a writer, director and producer, said that he had written a script titled ‘Brasil’ in 2014 and registered it with the Writers Guild of America in 2015. He alleged that his script was similar to Bigil as shown in the trailer since it also involves football.
Earlier, another writer, KP Selva, a member of South Indian Film Writers’ Association also accused Atlee of plagiarising his script and approached the Chennai city court. However, the Madras High Court reserved its judgement on the case as the litigant withdrew the case from the lower court and approached it.
Bigil stars Vijay in multiple roles. While Nayanthara plays the heroine, Jackie Shroff, Kathir, Vivek, Daniel Balaji etc are also part of the cast. The movie’s music has been composed by AR Rahman.
It was recently announced that the film received a U/A certificate from the CBFC and its total runtime is a marathon 2 hours 58 minutes and 59 seconds.