On Thursday, the Delhi High Court refused to approve an interim order restricting the release of the movie “Gunjan Saxena, the Kargil girl” in cinemas and asked the central government, which had alleged in its plea that the film shows the Indian Air Force (IAF) in low light, to resolve issues related to the film’s content with its producer and director.
The court noted that when any art is shown it is portrayed in a certain way and whatever the IAF may have felt wrong is not bias from the film’s creators.
The film, produced by Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions, first premiered on Netflix on August 12 and is likely to hit theaters that have opened as of Thursday after being closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic during more than six months.
The court asked Additional General Counsel Sanjay Jain, who was representing the Center, to sit down with counsel for other parties, including Lead Counsel Harish Salve for Dharma Productions, Lead Counsel Rajiv Nayar for Director Karan Johar, and Lead Counsel Neeraj Kishan Kaul from Netflix to try and solve problems related to movie content.
Judge Rajiv Shakdher also agreed to view the film after Kishen Kaul told the court that he should see the content and judge for himself. Refusing to restrict the release of the film at this stage, the court said: “Who will go to see a movie at the cinema during the pandemic? Those who wanted to see the movie have already seen it on the OTT platform. “
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