Last week, Gunjan Saxena, whose life story has been made into a feature film, in her affidavit before the Delhi High Court stated that she faced no discrimination in the IAF on the basis of her gender as shown in the movie, She also stated she had no say in the creative liberties taken by the fimmakers. The petition filed by the Ministry of Defence sought permanent injunction to restrain the defendants from broadcasting, telecasting, releasing in theatres and/or any other digital/OTT platform or in any platform in any manner whatsoever, the film ‘Gunjan Saxena…The Kargil Girl’ in public domain, privately or otherwise, by any means whatsoever, without the grant of NOC from the Plaintiff (IAF).
On the other hand The Delhi High Court on Thursday asked the counsels representing the Indian Air Force and the makers of the film – Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl to sit together and hold a conference in order to make an attempt for sorting out the issues related to the content shared in the film.A single-judge bench of the high court presided by Justice Rajiv Shakdher asked the counsel for both the parties to sit together and sort out the issue by exchanging the views. The court, however, refused to pass any interim order over the plea filed by the Central government seeking to restrain release of Bollywood movie Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl on theatres and said that those who wanted to watch the movie, might already have seen it on the OTT platform. “Who will go and watch the film in theatres during the Covid-19 pandemic and the ones who wanted to, have already seen it on OTT platform,” the judge said.
