“This change will not be made in the existing prints but will give credit in the next set of prints and on DVDs,” informed Mahendra Soni of Shree Venkatesh Films. Made on a budget of Rs.2 crore and released on July 24, the film is a big box-office hit. So, the money shelled out by Shree Venkatesh Films will come back to them multiplied several times over as a result of this out-of-court settlement. Till the High Court division bench’s decision, the collection money was locked away in a nationalised bank by two court-appointed officers as punishment for plagiarism. This money can now be unlocked by the producers to pay Shah.

Prior to this settlement, in a landmark judgement, the Kolkata High Court had banned the screening of Poran Jaaye Joliya Re on grounds of plagiarism. The ban was executed with immediate effect from Friday, September 4 in all theatres of the State of West Bengal. The judgement came in response to an appeal filed by Shree Venkatesh Films against the interim order that found them guilty of violating the provisions of the Copyright Act. The division bench comprised Justice P.C. Ghosh and Justice I.P. Mukherjee upheld the interim order passed by Justice Nadira Patheriya that Poran Jaaye Joliya Re that stated the film to have been a lift from Vipul Shah’s hit film.