the bombay high court in a strong order at an interim stage has stopped a tv channel from airing its new serial badii devrani which was scheduled to begin from march 30 justice s c gupte held that it was a prima facie case of breach of copyrights and confidentiality too by the channel the hc on a plea made by a tv production house beyond dreams entertainment pvt ltd against zee entertainment enterprises ltd and its new channel tv passed the order in a case that tv industry insiders were keen to track the production house represented by solicitor tushar gujjar and senior counsel janak dwarkadas and biren saraf had essentially raised the issue of unlawful and slavish use by the channel of a concept created and submitted to it in good faith and confidence the story as a concept note was register in june 2013 by beyond dreams with the film writers association the production house rushed to court to protect its copyrights after it found that promos for the new serial badii devrani resembled the concept and taglines it had created and was to produce for the channel the serial is set against the backdrop of kolkata and shows a story of an unusual arranged marriage between an older woman and a younger boy the new channel was launched early this month the court asked them to see the tenodd episodes the channel had made and their lawyers gujjar and saraf after viewing were convinced that the storyline is the same the judge too appeared to be satisfied that the channel had prima facie breached confidentiality and copyright held and originally pitched by the producers to the channel the contention of beyond dreams was that the channel made them part with the material and later asked them to get a coproducer for a show they had created and were set to make for the channel when the channel insisted beyond dreams withdrew the concept note and barred the channel from using any of its creation story and character sketches but the zee group channel through its senior counsel virag tulzapur and solicitors naik naik co denied any similarity of content or breach of copyright and confidentiality zee entertaiment said that it had in good faith asked beyond dreams to sell them its concept which it refused and hence zee engaged another producer shashi sumeet productions pvt ltd on a principletoprinciple basis to develop a completely different and independent concept story screenplay and dialogue for a tv serial and thats how the serial was created but after hearing both sides on tuesday the court was convinced that there was some merit in the producers case and passed orders on wednesday to prevent till final disposal of the main suit telecast of the serial starting next monday when it was to be launched the channel which has been promoting the serial may go in appealers will enjoy watching this as much as we have enjoyed working on