Alia Bhatt's New Movie, Jigra Gets High Court Pass After A Complaint!

Jigra Gets High Court Pass

A plea of trademark infringement filed in the Commercial Court, Jodhpur on Monday restrained the release of movie ‘Jigra'. The Rajasthan High Court has released the order directing that the film could be released on Friday October 11.

The movie features Bollywood actor  Alia Bhatt as a young female protagonist who has to save her brother, a juvenile delinquent played by Vedang Raina, from jail.

For the petitioner Bhallaram Choudhary said that he runs online classes with the name ‘Jigra’ and had registered the trademark under Section 37 of the Trade Marks Act 1999 within the context of class 41 which is about education entertainment and training and thus sought a stay on release of the movie ‘Jigra’ made by Dharma Productions Private Limited and a commercial court granted ad-interim injunction on October Sri Vikas Balia, counsel for the appellant Dharma Productions stated that the appellant is not carrying on any trade in goods or service so as to have violated Section 29 (8) of the Trade Marks Act.

Senior counsel for the respondent Bhallaram was R N Mathur who submitted that the appellant’s certificate of trademark ought to be protected. They said that unless such protection is granted, the respondent would suffer infringement of commercial rights; and if the impugned order is interfered with and the release of the movie is allowed, it will affect his business.

A Bench of Justices Pushpendra Singh Bhati and Munnuri Laxman said that the court is satisfied that the use of the name of the movie will not lead to infringement of the trademark rights of the goods and services.

“Besides, the appellant is not trading in the name of ‘Jigra’, but it is M/s. DV production Private limited. Therefore, the goods and services provided by Dharma Production Private Limited by choosing a movie name as ‘Jigra’ cannot be considered as violation of trademark laws,” it said.

The argument for saying so is that still if any kind of violation exists then the appropriate remedy in the shape of damages / monetary damages can be awarded but for this, the appellant cannot be put to financial losses on account of stopping the release of the movie on 11.