Chennai: A city court has halted the release of a Tamil film Puriyatha Puthir starring Vijay Sethupathi and Gayathri Shanker a day before it hit the screen.
The city civil court passed the interim order on a petition filed by Film Employees Federation of South India (Fefsi). The film was produced by the JSK Film Corporation and directed by Ranjith Jeyakodi.
The court said “as per the available documents prima facie of the case is made out. And, the balance of convenience is in favour of the petitioners. The submission of the counsel the JSK Film Corporation, by its proprietor J. Satishkumar, was not paid to the workers belonged to the Federation to the tune of Rs 22,13,051. This is a fit case to grant ad interim injunction because the workers have worked for this film. Hence ad interim injunction granted till September 14, 2017.”
The counsel R. Sivasankar appeared on behalf of Fefsi employees argued that the workers of the federation are very poor and that if an injunction not granted the payment would never be paid to the workers by the producer.
