High Court directs 'Martin' producers to include director in promotional events, posters
Bengaluru: On Friday, the Karnataka High Court directed the producers of Kannada film 'Martin', starring Dhruva Sarja, to use a tagline, 'A P Arjun Film', in all the posters and promotional documents for the movie in future. Director Arjun had approached the court questioning the producer's actions regarding his non-inclusion in any promotional activities of the pan-India action-movie set to release on October 11.
A vacation bench of the court comprising Justice S R Krishna Kumar and Justice M G Uma heard a commercial appeal filed by film director A P Arjun and ordered the producers to use a tagline declaring the name of director in all promotional activities. Further, it directed the producers to permit the director to participate in the promotional events for the movie.
The bench asked the tagline 'A P Arjun Film' to be included in all posters of the movie in future, exempting the already printed materials. Directing the producers to include the director in all promotional events, it also set a condition to Arjun that he must not express any negative comments on the film or its team in these events.
The court issued notices to the film production company Vasavi Enterprises and its owners Uday Mehta and Vasavi Mehta, regarding this. Further hearing was adjourned till October 14.
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Ex-minister Ramanath Rai hits out at BJP leader Ashoka for ‘irresponsible’ comments on KC Venugopal
Mangaluru: Congress leader and former minister B Ramanath Rai slammed BJP leader R Ashoka for calling AICC General Secretary KC Venugopal an agent of the party high command, and asked if the general secretary and other office-bearers in the BJP were commission agents too.
Rai, who addressed a press meet at the Congress office in the city on Friday, expressed fury over the recent comments of the BJP leader that Chief Minister Siddaramaiah was presenting himself in a shameless manner in public life. Ashoka, who is also Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly, had said that the Congress government had ‘broken every previous record on corruption-related controversies’.
“Ashoka has spoken with sheer ignorance and displays his lack of maturity, as he often does while facing the media. KC Venugopal has been working at organization of the party and it is unbecoming of Ashoka to criticize Venugopal as he did,” Rai told reporters.
“Being in a responsible position, how acceptable is it for Ashoka to pass disrespectful, random comments about another leader who also holds a responsible position? If KC Venugopal is indeed an agent of the party high command, what should we consider BJP leaders to be? Are they brokers?” he asked
Commenting on Ashoka’s allegations of corruption in the Congress government in Karnataka, Rai pointed out, “The KSRTC land was sold to private parties when he (Ashoka) was transport minister. We can find several such cases across the state, which need to be probed.”
The former minister, however, refused to comment on the incident that occurred at Mangaluru airport during CM Siddaramaiah’s visit to the city recently.
Former mayors Ashraf and Shashidhar Hegde, Congress activists Vishwas Kumar Das, Subhodaya Alva, Shabeer, Baby Kundar, Padmanabha, Nazeer Bajal and Prem were present.
