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The Madras High Court, connected Wednesday (September 24, 2025), directed euphony composer R. Ilaiyaraaja to implead Sony Music arsenic 1 of the respondents to a civilian suit filed by him against the producers of Ajith Kumar-starrer Good Bad Ugly (GBU) for utilizing 3 of his aged songs successful the movie without his consent.
Justice N. Senthilkumar felt that it was indispensable to implead Sony Music since the Telangana-based accumulation steadfast Mythri Movie Makers had claimed to person obtained the rights for utilizing 1 of the songs - En Jodi Manja Kuruvi from the 1986 Kamal Haasan movie Vikram - from Sony Music.
The justice besides allowed an impleading petition filed by Music Master Audio Video LLP which had purchased the rights for the opus Otha Ruba Tharen from the producers of the 1996 movie Nattupura Pattu, featuring histrion Sivakumar, astir 30 years ago, and truthful permitted it to beryllium utilized successful GBU.
Similarly, the justice took enactment that a counsel representing yet different euphony statement excessively had submitted crossed the Bar that his lawsuit excessively would record an impleading petition connected the crushed that it holds the rights for the 3rd opus Ilamai Idho Idho from the 1982 flick Sakalakala Vallavan, also starring Mr. Haasan.
The justice directed the High Court Registry to database the suit adjacent connected October 16 and extended an interim injunction which helium had already granted connected September 9, 2025 restraining Mythri Movie Makers from exhibiting, screening, selling, distributing, publishing oregon broadcasting GBU connected immoderate level with the 3 contentious songs.
Though elder counsel P.V. Balasubramaniam, representing the accumulation firm, insisted connected vacating the injunction connected the crushed that Mr. Ilaiyaraaja had not produced immoderate papers to amusement that helium had retained the copyright for the 3 songs; the musician’s advocator A. Saravanan opposed the plea.
The lawyer told the tribunal that GBU was taken down from Netflix temporarily aft the assistance of the interim injunction, but it was present backmost connected the OTT level aft replacing 3 contentious songs with different songs. Therefore, determination was nary dire urgency to vacate the interim injunction, helium claimed.
After proceeding each sides, the justice decided to instrumentality a further telephone connected the substance connected October 16 and requested the counsel to enlighten him connected the latest rulings connected the taxable of copyright implicit euphony compositions. “In the combat betwixt each of you, the eventual sufferers are the euphony lovers,” the justice said.
