The Kerala High Court has stayed the FIR registered against Malayalam actor and producer Prithviraj Sukumaran in connection with the alleged copyright infringement of the song “Varaharoopam” from the Kannada movie “Kantara.” Prithviraj was the distributor of the film in Kerala. While staying the FIR, the Single Bench of Justice Bechu Kurian Thomas observed, “As a mere distributor of the film in Kerala, the actor was unnecessarily being dragged into it, and initiating copyright infringement proceedings against him was stretching it too far.”
