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The Madras High Court connected Tuesday (March 24, 2026) ordered announcement to movie shaper ‘Kalaippuli’ S. Thanu of V Creations connected an entreaty filed by Bengaluru-based KRG Studios LLP successful transportation with a quality betwixt them implicit the organisation of Kichcha Sudeepa alias Sudeep Sanjeev-starrer Max.
A Division Bench of Justices P. Velmurugan and K. Govindarajan Thilakavadi permitted Mr. Thanu’s counsel to instrumentality announcement connected his behalf and ordered issuance of tribunal announcement to Mr. Sudeep too, successful his capableness arsenic the proprietor of Kichcha Creations, which had co-produced the movie on with V Creations.
The Bench directed the High Court Registry to database the entreaty adjacent connected April 6, 2026 for further hearing. The entreaty had been preferred against the dismissal of KRG Studios’ plea to revoke the permission granted to Mr. Thanu, by a azygous judge, to record a civilian suit against the Bengaluru based steadfast astatine the Madras High Court.
Mr. Thanu had filed the suit successful October 2025 seeking a absorption to KRG Studios to taxable existent and due accounts of the income and expenditure with respect to the organisation of Max wrong the territory of Karnataka arsenic it had been agreed betwixt them done an statement signed connected December 16, 2024.
The plaintiff had besides sought a absorption to KRG Studios to wage the dues to V Creations on with involvement astatine the complaint of 18% per annum. He had further sought damages of ₹1 crore for alleged breach of the presumption of the 2024 statement based connected which the organisation rights were granted to KRG Studios.
Along with his civilian suit, Mr. Thanu had besides filed an exertion to injunct KRG Studios from releasing its movie Mango Pachcha, starring Sanchith Sanjeev, without archetypal settling his dues. Since the suit was filed against the steadfast based successful Bengaluru, helium besides sought the permission (permission) of the tribunal to record the suit successful Chennai.
Justice N. Senthilkumar granted the permission connected October 6, 2025, aft observing that a portion of origin of enactment had arisen successful Chennai. However, KRG Studios filed an exertion for revoking the permission connected the crushed that the 2024 statement specifically stated that immoderate quality could beryllium resolved lone earlier the courts successful Bengaluru.
In the exertion filed done its counsel connected grounds Vijayan Subramanian, KRG studios besides stated that the stamp insubstantial connected which the 2024 statement had been typed was purchased successful Bengaluru and that the statement was with respect to a movie, which was chiefly changeable successful Kannada language.
Therefore, it claimed, nary portion of origin of enactment had arisen wrong the jurisdiction of Madras High Court thereby entitling Mr. Thanu to record the suit successful Chennai. However, connected February 4, 2026 Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy rejected the plea to revoke the leave.
The justice said, successful the transcript of the 2024 agreement, produced by Mr. Thanu earlier the court, the plaintiff had struck disconnected the connection ‘Bengaluru’ from the clause related to jurisdiction and replaced it with ‘Chennai.’ Though his signature was recovered adjacent to the alteration, the signature of the suspect was absent.
Since it was not imaginable to grounds immoderate conclusive uncovering connected the alteration, the justice proceeded to determine the exertion to revoke the permission connected the ground that nary exclusive jurisdiction clause was agreed to by some the parties. He besides came to a decision that a portion of origin of enactment had so arisen successful Chennai.
The justice said, arsenic per the presumption of the agreement, KRG Studios was obligated to remit the stock of organisation gross owed to Mr. Thanu successful his slope relationship located successful Chennai and hence, the permission granted to record the suit earlier the Madras High Court could not beryllium revoked.
