Court refuses to stall release of Shahid Kapoor’s O Romeo, says Hussain Ustara’s daughter ‘failed to establish a case’
Vishal Bhardwaj‘s upcoming film O Romeo, starring Shahid Kapoor and Triptii Dimri in the lead roles, has secured a big legal victory. A Mumbai court has refused to stall its release, denying interim relief to late gangster Hussain Ustara’s daughter, who claimed the movie was based on her father’s life. Shahid Kapoor in a still from Vishal Bhardwaj’s O Romeo. Court refuses to block release of O Romeo In her case, Sanober Shaikh, daughter of Hussain Shaikh aka Hussain Ustara), had claimed that the makers of the film took no prior consent from her or her family while making the film. She filed a civil suit against the producer of the film Sajjid Nadiadwala, its director Vishal Bhardwaj and author Hussain Zaidi. However, in its order on Saturday, the court said that Sanober failed to establish a case for an injunction. Civil court judge H C Shende pointed out that the plaintiff Sanober had previously demanded monetary compensation from the makers, which made an immediate injunction “impermissible in the eye of law”. In her lawsuit, …
