Judgment

Mr. Rajbir Sehrawat, J.

The present appeal has been filed by the defendants in the original suit challenging the order dated 23.11.2023 passed by the Additional District Judge, Ludhiana whereby the interim application filed by respondent No.l-plaintiff was allowed while restraining the appellants-defendants from producing, telecasting, selling or releasing the movie under the name of “Dear Jassi” or with any other name till final decision of the case.

2. The facts, as involved in the present case are that the appellants intended to produce a film namely, “Dear Jassi” on the story of one Jaswinder Kaur Sidhu @ Jassi. For the said purpose the appellants came across a book written by Mr. Fabian Dawson of Canada. As per the case of the appellants they purchased the right to make a film on the book written by Mr. Fabian Dawson, by paying authorization fee of about 5000 C$. Accordingly, the appellants have made a film named “Dear Jassi”, as based upon the book written by Mr. Fabian Dawson. When the appellants intended to release the said film, the respondent No.1-plaintiff, who claimed to have purchased the rights to make film from respondent No.5-Sukhwinder Singh @ Mithu, who is