( 1 ) THIS appeal is directed against the interlocutory order made by the learned Civil Judge in O. S. No. 4029 of 1987 dismissing the application filed by the plaintiffs (who are appellants herein and who are hereinafter referred to as the plaintiffs) under the provisions of O. 39 Rr. 1 and 2 of C. P. C. (in short the Code ).

( 2 ) INTERIM reliefs sought for by the plaintiffs in the suit were to restrain defendants-1, 2 and 3 from re-publishing the Kannada novel written by defendant-1 under the title "avasthe" and to restrain defendants - 4 to 8 from exhibiting and screening the picture based on the aforesaid novel going by the name "avasthe". It is common ground that the book was published earlier in the year 1978 and it has reached the stage of second reprint obviously because the book must have been in good demand by the lovers of Kannada Literature in this State. Defendant-1 who has written the book is a well-known litterateur and he has got to his credit some other works in Kannada language. It is also on record that his novel 'samskara' was considered to be a 'classic' in Kannada literature and it has been translated in various foreign languages. The fact th