who says gambling is illegal in india the release of every medium to smallsize bollywood film is a slot machine filing a case against it is a gamble and if it pays off youve hit the jackpot everyone knows that bigbudget films these days also have big marketing budgets and any legal action close to the release of the film is sure to get the litigator in the papers for having threatened such a big film plus if the filmmakers actually do see any possibility that the court might stay the films release on the basis of the case theyre often more than willing to use a big chunk of that big budget and settle the case out of court the film gets released as planned and the litigator gets lucky while there sometimes is merit to the cases being filed the timing remains interesting the filmmaker can either lose money by postponing the films release or lose money by settling outofcourt lastminute legal those of you who put off your chores till the last minute take heart youre not alone about a week before the release of bigbudget films eleventhhour experts come crawling out of the woodwork claiming that their work has been copied by the film and theyve just realised it or that their sentiments are going to be hurt if the film is released in june this year a delhibased right wing organisation got an attack of virulent patriotism four days before the release of dibakar banerjees shanghai and filed a public interest litigation pil asking for a stay on the release of the movie arguing that one of its songs called bharat mata ki jai has been written with clear intentions to outrage national honour and pride and added that it hurt many people who are patriotic in nature they asked for the release to be stayed till the song was deleted and the film was made more suitable for viewing by patriots poor things even in the case of a shoe company suing the makers of chakravyuh over the mehangai songs lyrics the defendant had asked why the footwear company waited for over a month after the movies song was released online by the makers choosing to file the case again about a week before the films theatrical release last year among the several films sued just days before release was srks scifi behemoth raone a certain television writer and producer said he had been discussing his concept of a futuristic superhero story with a bollywood scriptwriter and that the latter sold it without his permission to shah rukhs company as for why he waited till less than a week before the films release to file a case the writer was quoted as saying that he was collecting audiovisual evidence the court had the producers deposit one crore rupees as a condition for not staying the release of the film in 2009 two petitioners in mumbai got the eleventhhour syndrome before the