Bangalore: A court here today restrained producers of Telugu
film 'Swami Sathyananda', believed to have been based on the life of
controversial self styled godman Nithyananda, from releasing, promoting
or exhibiting the movie in any manner till December 2.
Passing orders on three Interlocutory applications filed by
Nityananda, who was arrested last year on criminal charges, including
rape, Additional Civil and Sessions Judge Aswath Narayana adjourned
further hearing to December 2.
Earlier, the court had passed an injunction order restraining the
release or promotion of the Kannada version of the film, 'Sathyananda',
directed by Madan Patel, an actor-turned-politician, in any manner.
Senior counsel for Nithyananda, K V Dhananjay submitted that the
defendants cannot take the very visuals shot for the Kannada film
'Sathyananda' and add Telugu dialogues over it and call the film as
'Swami Sathyananda' and claim that it was an entirely different film.
Such modification is never bonafide, he argued.
The only reasonable inference and conclusion that could be drawn
here is that such a modification had been done for the 'deliberate
purpose' of breaching the September 20 stay granted by the court on the
release of the Kannada film, he said.
