JUDGEMENT

JYOTI SINGH, J.

I.A. 11030/2022 (under Order XXXIX Rules 1 and 2 CPC, by Plaintiff)

1. This judgment will dispose of the present application seeking interim injunction against the Defendants and all others acting on their behalf from making, producing, distributing, broadcasting, communicating to the public, adapting, telecasting, exhibiting in theatres, and/or on television and/or online platforms (including any ‘OTT platform’ or other streaming platform) the impugned film titled “Shamshera”, or any part(s) thereof, or any other similar work amounting to infringement of Plaintiff’s copyright in his copyrighted script titled ‘Kabu na chhadein Khet’ (hereinafter referred to as the ‘KNCK’).

2. Facts to the extent relevant for the present application are that in or around 2006, Plaintiff conceived the idea/concept of a work, which he set out in writing and is stated to be a fictionalised period drama set around the 18th Century. In the year 2008, KNCK, the literary work was manifested/ condensed into a short cinematography film having a runtime of 10 minutes, written and directed by the Plaintiff, wherein the story created by the Plaintiff was set in the 19th Century. In October