(Judgment of the Court was delivered by P.VELMURUGAN,J.)

The 1^st respondent herein had filed a suit against the appellant herein in C.S.(Comm. Div.) No.274 of 2025. Thereafter, an application in A.No.4880 of 2025 was filed to grant leave to sue, which was allowed. After serving summons, the appellant herein has filed an application for revocation of leave in A.No.67 of 2026, which came to be dismissed by a learned Single Judge of this Court. As against the same, the appellant herein had preferred the present appeal.

2.The learned Senior Counsel appearing for the appellant would submit that the appellant and the 1^st respondent had entered into a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) for theatrical distribution rights in respect of a Kannada movie titled “MAX” for the State of Karnataka. Since the MoA was executed at Bengaluru and the exclusive jurisdiction also concerned is at Bengaluru, no part of cause of action took place in Chennai, except the fact that the 1^st respondent was r