Madras Excessive Courtroom stalls launch of Karthi-starrer Vaa Vaathiyar

The Madras Excessive Courtroom has restricted the discharge of Karthi starrer. Vaa Vaathiyar Pursuant to a plea made by the Official Assignee of the Excessive Courtroom accusing the manufacturing home Studio Inexperienced, helmed by KE Gnanavel Raja, of not having settled its dues totally to businessman Arjunlal Sunderdas (since lifeless) who had been declared as an bancrupt and had left behind a number of liabilities.

A Division Bench of Justices SM Subramaniam and C. Kumarappan wrote, “There shall be an order of interim prohibition in opposition to the respondent to not launch the film Vaa Vaathiyar until December 5, 2025” and directed the Excessive Courtroom Registry to checklist the current execution petition together with different linked petitions for additional listening to of the matter on December 8, 2025.

The Excessive Courtroom had handed the same prohibition order with respect to actor Suriya starrer Kanguvaa too in November 2024 and allowed the discharge of that film solely after Mr. Gnanavelraja deposited ₹6.14 crore. The Official Assignee had taken out filed one other petition now to stop the discharge of Vaa Vaathiyar on December 5, 2025 except the producer pays ₹21.78 crore.

The dispute was associated to a litigation that dates again to 2011 when Mr. Gnanavelraja had entered into an settlement with the businessman Sunderdas for co-producing a film by investing ₹40 crore every. As per the settlement reached between them, Sunderdas had invested ₹12.85 crore earlier than backing off from the venture and deciding to not contain within the manufacturing anymore.

Subsequently, in 2014, the Excessive Courtroom declared Sunderdas as an bancrupt and directed the Official Assignee to take inventory of all his belongings and liabilities in order that a whole lot of people that had deposited cash in his actual property and finance firms may very well be reimbursed their dues. Accordingly, the Official Assignee took cost and started the method of assessing the monetary particulars of the bancrupt.

Whereas conducting an evaluation as directed by the court docket, the Official Assignee discovered that Mr. Gnanavelraja needed to repay ₹10.35 crore to the bancrupt, and due to this fact, filed an utility earlier than the Excessive Courtroom in 2016 in search of a course to him to repay the quantity with 18% curiosity from 2013. The Division Bench allowed the appliance in 2019 and directed the producer to repay your entire legal responsibility of ₹10.35 crore with curiosity.

Since then, the Official Assignee had been submitting petitions after petitions earlier than the Excessive Courtroom, earlier than each launch of the movie by the manufacturing home, however hasn’t been in a position to get better the dues in full.