Kalaipuli S Thanu has expressed confidence that his production venture ‘Kabali’, which has Superstar Rajinikanth in the lead, will collect more than Rs 500 crore in the box-office.“Kabali is bigger than Baahubali. Because, it has Rajinikanth in it. Moreover, director Ranjith has shaped up the film in an interesting and impressive way. So I am sure it will be a landmark movie,” he said.
Meanwhile, Thanu has obtained an order from the Madras high court, banning websites that illegally upload the movie. The order by justice N Kirubakaran said: “The petitioner is said to have suffered heavy loss due to online and video piracy of his movies ‘Theri’ and ‘Kanidhan’, and his apprehension regarding illegal downloading, streaming, etc of his upcoming movie by rogue websites is well-founded.”
“Hence, this court is convinced to grant an order of interim injunction restraining the licensed ISPs listed as respondents 7 to 175, from giving access to the rogue websites listed in the schedule to the petition, and other similar websites indulging in online piracy and infringement of copyright pertaining to the film ‘Kabali,’ and more particularly prohibit them in territorial jurisdiction of India from exhibiting, releasing, projecting, screening or in any manner providing platforms for downloading the film Kabali which is already censored and slated for release on July 22,” he added.
