The Madras High Court has issued notices to actor Vishal and director M Anandan to file a detailed report by Thursday on a plea moved by the Trident Arts to restrain the release of the actor’s upcoming movie ‘Chakra’ on a digital platform.
Justice N Sathish Kumar decided to hear Vishal as well as the director before passing interim orders on the applications moved by the production firm accusing the actor of owing it over Rs 8 crore due to poor box-office performance of his movie Action.
According to the petitioner’s counsel Vijayan Subramanian told the judge that Trident Arts had so far distributed over 500 movies but ventured into production only in 2016. Since then, it had produced four movies and the last of it was ‘Action’ directed by Sundar C.
He alleged that Vishal had persuaded the firm to produce the movie at a cost of Rs 44 crore, and he also agreed to bear the shortage if the movie does not collect a minimum of Rs 20 crore through theatrical collections in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana alone.
The film didn’t do well and the production house alleged that Vishal owed them Rs 8 crore. Trident Arts also claimed that the script of the movie ‘Chakra’ was the same which it had intended to produce as its fifth venture. However, the actor and Anandan had now got the movie produced through someone else, it alleged.
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