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NEW DELHI: Refusing to stay tomorrow's nationwide release
of Nishabd, the Delhi High Court today issued notice
to producer Ram Gopal Varma, his company RGV Films and the
censor board, on a revision petition by Jahar Kanungo alleging
Varma’s Film Factory had violated its intellectual property
right to the title.
A division bench comprising Chief Justice MK Sharma and Justice
Sanjeev Khanna fixed 9 April for hearing the case, which was
filed challenging the order of Justice AK Sikri earlier this
week rejecting the petition by Kanungo Media as time-barred,
since the film Nishabd, which stars megastar Amitabh
Bachchan with newcomer Jiah Khan, was cleared by the censors
in June 2005.
The film has already been to several international film festivals
and has received the best feature film award at Osian's Cinefan
Festival Asian Film in Delhi and the 'Coup De Coeur Guimet Award'
at Vesoul International Festival of Asian Award.
Filmmaker Jahar Kanungo claims that he retains the copyright
to the title Nishabd and had produced a Bengali film
with this title ten years ago.
Nishabd, directed by Varma, tells the story of a 65-year-old
man, infatuated with a girl his daughter's age. The film also
stars south Indian actress Rewati.
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